set up

动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
发音 sĕt'ŭp'

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To make ready for use. transitive
    — We set up the sprinkler.
  2. To arrange logically. transitive
    — Set up my CD collection.
  3. To cause to happen. transitive
    — Even a minor change can set up new bugs.
  4. To trap or ensnare. transitive
    — I've got to set up that tasty rabbit.
  5. To arrange for an outcome; to tamper or rig. transitive
    — The election was set up!
  6. To prepare or get ready. intransitive
    — Used with an implied object obvious from context.
  7. To gel or harden. intransitive
    — Give the cement 24 hours to set up before walking on it.
  8. To level to rise in one part of a body of water, especially a shallow one, because of a storm surge caused by persistent wind. intransitive
    — The level set up at the south end of the lake after a day of north winds.
  9. To provide the money or other support that someone needs for an important task or activity. transitive
    — Winning the lottery has set them up for life.
  10. To establish someone in a business or position. transitive
    — After he left college, his father set him up in the family business.
  11. To trick or lure (someone) in order to entrap them. informal,transitive
    — They claimed that they weren't selling drugs, but that they'd been set up by the police.
  12. To make (someone) proud or conceited (often in passive). transitive
    — M. Robespierre looked at me sideways and smiled and said to Madame, ‘You're a young lady after my own heart.’ This set her up for the day.
  13. To matchmake; to arrange a date between two people. transitive
  14. To create a goalscoring opportunity (for). transitive
    — Just past the hour Agbonlahor set up the second, crossing for Bent to net.
  15. To begin business or a scheme of life. dated,intransitive
    — to set up in trade; to set up for oneself
  16. To profess openly; to make pretensions.
    — 1744 (first printed) Jonathan Swift, On the Testimony of Conscience those men who set up for morality without regard to religion, are generally virtuous but in part
  17. To found; to start (a business, scheme) transitive
    — With the help of his wife Bilquis, he set up a maternal health clinic and a centre for abandoned children.
  18. To deceive an opponent and capitalize on their reactions with a certain technique or maneuver.
    — When you make an opening you merely cause an opponent to uncover a target somewhere on his person. But when you set up an opponent, you knock him off balance with one punch so that he should be an open target for a following punch. Unless he's knocked off balance, he's not set up.
  19. To cause to take flight; to flush into the air.
    — Edmund had enjoyed a good gallop over the downs, setting up the sandpipers[.]
  20. Synonym of compose (To arrange (types) in a composing stick for printing; to typeset) obsolete
形容词 adj.
  1. In a position to function; ready.
    — Now that I'm set up, this will take moments!

词形变化

sets up present,singular,third-person setting up participle,present set up participle,past set up past more set up comparative most set up superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
set up camp set up one's bristles set up one's rest set up one's staff set up shop set up someone's birse
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