SETUP

setup, frame-up

(noun) an act that incriminates someone on a false charge

apparatus, setup

(noun) equipment designed to serve a specific function

setup

(noun) the way something is organized or arranged; “it takes time to learn the setup around here”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

setup (plural setups)

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.

(computing) An installer.

(operations) The process of arranging resources for performing a specific operation, as a run of a particular product.

(hydrology) 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.

Synonyms

• (equipment): apparatus

• (the fashion in which something is organized or arranged): configuration, layout

• (situation orchestrated to frame someone): frameup, stitch-up

Verb

setup

Misspelling of set up.

Anagrams

• TUPEs, puets, spute, stupe, upset

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

21 May 2025

SOMETIME

(adverb) at some indefinite or unstated time; “let’s get together sometime”; “everything has to end sometime”; “It was to be printed sometime later”


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Coffee Trivia

The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.

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