English to English verb
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set up or found |  | Example: She set up a literacy program
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create by putting components or members together |  | Example: She pieced a quilt He tacked together some verses They set up a committee
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construct, build, or erect |  | Example: Raise a barn
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get ready for a particular purpose or event |  | Example: set up an experiment set the table lay out the tools for the surgery
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put into a proper or systematic order |  | Example: arrange the books on the shelves in chronological order
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begin, or enable someone else to begin, a venture by providing the means, logistics, etc. |  | Example: set up an election
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take or catch as if in a snare or trap |  | Example: I was set up! The innocent man was framed by the police
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produce |  | Example: The scientists set up a shock wave
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set up for use |  | Example: install the washer and dryer We put in a new sink
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place |  | Example: Her manager had set her up at the Ritz
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arrange the outcome of by means of deceit |  | Example: rig an election
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erect and fasten |  | Example: pitch a tent
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arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events |  | Example: arrange my schedule set up one's life I put these memories with those of bygone times
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equip with sails or masts |  | Example: rig a ship
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make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc |  | Example: Get the children ready for school! prepare for war I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill
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