setup

Plural: setups

Noun

• The way something is organized, arranged, or prepared.
• equipment designed to serve a specific function
• the way something is organized or arranged
  • "it takes time to learn the setup around here"
• an act that incriminates someone on a false charge
• Equipment designed for a particular purpose; an apparatus.
• The fashion in which something is organized or arranged.
• A situation orchestrated to frame someone; a covert effort to place the blame on somebody.
• An installer.
• The process or instance of arranging resources for performing a specific operation, as a run of a particular product.
• The tendency of persistent wind to produce higher water levels at the downwind shore of a body of water and lower at the upwind shore.
• A move or set of moves which are meant to draw out a reaction which leaves an exploitable opening in defense.

Verb

• Misspelling of set up.

Examples

• A simple setup on the bottling line involves reloading bottles and labels; emptying, cleaning, and reloading the tanks; and a test run.
• The classroom setup was simple and efficient.
• The initial Words With Friends setup seemed unpromising, but he found a bingo.
• The jab is most commonly used as a setup for other strikes.
• The laboratory included an elaborate setup for measuring the energy.
• There was a strong wind setup at the south end of the lake after a day of northerly gales.
• Trust me, that was a setup!

Synonyms

apparatus, frame-up, configuration, frameup, layout, loadout, stitch-up

Related Words

set up, the adjective and verb