setup
Pronunciation: /ˈsɛtʌp/
The English word “setup” has 7 meanings listed here.
noun
- 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.
Etymology
Deverbal from set up.
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