transcription, транскрипция: [ transitive verb ]
Date: 13th century
1.
a. : to raise to and place in a high position
b. : to place in view : post
c. : to put forward (as a plan) for acceptance
2.
a. : to place upright : erect
set up a statue
b. : to assemble the parts of and erect in position
set up a printing press
c. : to put (a machine) in readiness or adjustment for an operation
3.
a. : cause , create
set up a clamor
b. : bring about
4. : to place in power or in office
set up the general as dictator
5.
a. : to raise from depression : elate , gratify
b. : to make proud or vain
6.
a. : to put forward or extol as a model
b. : to claim oneself to be
sets himself up as an authority
7. : found , inaugurate
set up a home for orphans
8.
a. : to provide with means of making a living
set him up in business
b. : to bring or restore to normal health
c. : to cause (one) to take on a soldierly or athletic appearance especially through drill
9. : to erect (a perpendicular or a figure) on a base in a drawing
10.
a. : to make taut (a stay or hawser)
b. : to tighten firmly
11. : to make carefully worked out plans for
set up a bank robbery
12.
a. : to pay for (drinks)
b. : to treat (someone) to something
13.
a. : to put in a compromising or dangerous position usually by trickery or deceit
b. : frame 3
14. : to execute one or more plays in preparation for scoring
intransitive verb
1. : to come into active operation or use
2. : to begin business
3. : to make pretensions
has never set up to be a wise man — Thomas Rogers
4. : to become firm or consolidated
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- set up housekeeping
- set up shop