setup

See also: set-up and set up

English

Alternative forms

• set-up

Etymology

Deverbal from set up.

Pronunciation

• enPR: sĕt'ŭp'
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛtʌp/

    • Audio (Southern England):

      (file)

  • (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛtʌp/, [ˈsɛɾʌp]
  • (Australia, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈsetɐp/

Noun

setup (plural setups)

1. Equipment designed for a particular purpose; an apparatus.

   The laboratory included an elaborate setup for measuring the energy.

2. The fashion in which something is organized or arranged.

   The classroom setup was simple and efficient.

   • 1993, Billboard, volume 105, number 21, page 106:

     Shapiro says KYW would keep two separate news staffs that would work together, similar to WBZ's setup.

   • 25 November 2022, Jonathan Tannenwald, “U.S. dominates England for long stretches, but plays to 0-0 tie at World Cup”, in The Philadeplhia Inquirer‎^[1]:

     For some stretches, Berhalter’s usual 4-3-3 setup played more as a 4-4-2, with Tim Weah pushing up alongside Wright and McKennie moving to the right side.

3. A situation orchestrated to frame someone; a covert effort to place the blame on somebody.

   Trust me, that was a setup!

4. (computing) An installer.
   • 1995 August 28, InfoWorld, page 80:

     You still have to run the setup and select the display driver after restarting Windows. Installing Windows NT drivers was tedious (but we could back up system files), and OS/2 was tiresome; […]

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

   Synonyms: make-ready, makeready (used in some trades)

   A simple setup on the bottling line involves reloading bottles and labels; emptying, cleaning, and reloading the tanks; and a test run.

7. (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.

   There was a strong wind setup at the south end of the lake after a day of northerly gales.

8. (boxing) A move or set of moves which are meant to draw out a reaction which leaves an exploitable opening in defense.

   The jab is most commonly used as a setup for other strikes.

Synonyms

• (equipment): apparatus, loadout
• (the fashion in which something is organized or arranged): configuration, layout
• (situation orchestrated to frame someone): frameup, stitch-up

Derived terms

• setup block
• setup fee
• setup man
• setup time

Related terms

• set up, the adjective and verb

Translations

Equipment designed for a particular purpose; an apparatus

• Bulgarian: устано́вка (bg) f (ustanóvka)
• Danish: opstilling (da) c, opsætning c
• Estonian: seaded
• Finnish: laitteisto (fi)
• French: installation (fr)
• German: Einrichtung (de) f, Vorrichtung (de) f, Gerät (de) n, Installation (de) f
• Italian: apparecchio (it) m, dispositivo (it) m
• Polish: sprzęt (pl) m inan, przyrząd (pl) m inan, urządzenie (pl) n, aparatura (pl) f, maszyneria (pl) f
• Russian: устано́вка (ru) f (ustanóvka)

The fashion in which something is organized or arranged

• Bulgarian: устройство (bg) n (ustrojstvo), организация (bg) f (organizacija)
• Estonian: seadistus
• Finnish: järjestely (fi)
• German: Einrichtung (de) f, Anordnung (de) f, Aufbau (de) m
• Greek: εγκατάσταση (el) f (egkatástasi)
• Italian: impostazione (it) f, configurazione (it) f, assetto (it) m, situazione (it) f, allestimento (it) m, impianto (it) m
• Polish: ustawienie (pl) n, konfiguracja (pl) f
• Russian: обстановка (ru) f (obstanovka), условия (ru) pl (uslovija)

situation orchestrated to frame someone

• Bulgarian: постановка (bg) f (postanovka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 陷害 (zh) (xiànhài)

• Estonian: lavastus
• Finnish: lavastus (fi)
• French: coup monté (fr) m
• German: Inszenierung (de) f, abgekartetes Spiel n, Falle (de) f
• Italian: macchinazione (it) f
• Macedonian: местенка f (mestenka)
• Polish: machinacja (pl) f, wrobienie n, intryga (pl) f, zasadzka (pl) f, pułapka (pl) f, ustawka (pl) f
• Portuguese: armação (pt) f
• Russian: подста́ва (ru) f (podstáva)
• Spanish: trampucheta f, maquinación (es) f, leva (es) f

computing: an installer

• Bulgarian: инсталатор m (instalator)
• Czech: instalátor m
• Esperanto: agordilo, instal-asistanto, instalilo
• Finnish: asennusohjelma
• Galician: instalador m
• Georgian: ინსტალატორი (insṭalaṭori)
• German: Installationsprogramm n, Installer m
• Hungarian: telepítő (hu)
• Indonesian: pemasang (id)
• Malay: pemasang
• Polish: instalator (pl) m inan
• Russian: инсталля́тор (ru) m (installjátor)
• Serbo-Croatian: instalacijski alat m, instalacijski program m
• Slovene: namestitveno orodje n
• Spanish: instalador m
• Swedish: installationsprogram (sv) n

Verb

setup

1. Misspelling of set up.

Anagrams

• TUPEs, Tse-p'u, puets, spute, stupe, upset

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /səˈtup/ [səˈt̪ʊp̚]
• Rhymes: -up
• Syllabification: se‧tup

Etymology 1

From Dutch stoof, stoven, from Middle Dutch stoven. Compare to Afrikaans stoof.

Alternative forms

• setop

Noun

sêtup

1. (cooking) something that is cooked by simmering or stewing
2. (cooking) compote

Derived terms

• disetup
• menyetup
• penyetupan

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Minangkabau [Term?].

Noun

sêtup

1. (architecture) terrace of a stilt house

Further reading

• “setup”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

• set up (common misspelling as a noun)

Etymology

From English setup. Not to be confused with the verbal form set up.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [sɛt̚˧˦ ʔəp̚˧˦], [set̚˧˦ ʔəp̚˧˦], [sɛt̚˧˦ ʔup̚˧˦], [set̚˧˦ ʔup̚˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [sɛt̚˦˧˥ ʔəp̚˦˧˥], [set̚˦˧˥ ʔəp̚˦˧˥], [sɛt̚˦˧˥ ʔup̚˦˧˥], [set̚˦˧˥ ʔup̚˦˧˥]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [sɛk̚˦˥ ʔəp̚˦˥], [səːt̚˦˥ ʔəp̚˦˥], [sɛk̚˦˥ ʔʊp̚˦˥], [səːt̚˦˥ ʔʊp̚˦˥]
• Phonetic spelling: xét ấp, xết ấp, xét úp, xết úp

Noun

setup (classifier cái)

1. (informal) A combination of equipment together with how it is configured or arranged.

   Đây là setup livestream của mình.

   This is my livestream setup.

2. (informal) The fashion in which something is organized or arranged.

   setup bàn làm việc ― desk arrangement

See also

• set up