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Setup vs Startup - What's the difference?

setup | startup |

As nouns the difference between setup and startup

is that setup is equipment designed for a particular purpose; an apparatus while startup is the act or process of starting a process or machine.

As a verb setup

is misspelling of lang=en.

setup

English

Alternative forms

* set-up

Noun

(en noun) (wikipedia setup)
  • Equipment designed for a particular purpose; an apparatus.
  • The laboratory included an elaborate setup for measuring the energy.
  • The fashion in which something is organized or arranged.
  • The classroom setup was simple and efficient.
  • An act to frame someone; an effort or arrangement aimed at placing the blame on somebody.
  • Trust me, that was a setup !
  • (computing) An installer.
  • After inserting the disk, run the setup .
  • (operations) The process of arranging resources for performing a specific operation, as a run of a particular product.
  • A simple setup on the bottling line involves reloading bottles and labels; emptying, cleaning, and reloading the tanks; and a test run.

    Synonyms

    * (equipment) apparatus * (the fashion in which something is organized or arranged) configuration

    Verb

    (head)
  • Anagrams

    * *

    startup

    Etymology 1

    Alternative forms

    * (alter)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or process of starting a process or machine.
  • A new organization or business venture.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= The attack of the MOOCs , passage=Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.}}
    Antonyms
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    Etymology 2

    , describing a boot that starts up (reaches up) to the middle of the leg.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a kind of high-low or thigh-high boot worn by rustic people
  • a kind of gaiter or legging
  • Anagrams

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