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Setup   /sˈɛtˌəp/   Listen
Setup

noun
1.
Equipment designed to serve a specific function.  Synonym: apparatus.
2.
The way something is organized or arranged.
3.
An act that incriminates someone on a false charge.  Synonym: frame-up.






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"Setup" Quotes from Famous Books



... fact that the Lady Fani had tried to get him massacred. He puzzled over it. The little yacht sped through space toward Walden. He tried to think how he'd offended Fani. He could think of nothing. He set to work on a new electronic setup which would make still another modification of the Lawlor space-drive possible. In the others, groups of electronic components were cut out and others substituted in rather tricky fashion from the control board. This was trickiest of all. It required the home-made vacuum tube ...
— The Pirates of Ersatz • Murray Leinster

... to think that he had threshed more with his machine, by twenty bushels, than Deacon Petengill had with his. There was a bet upon these two deacons, so it wuz spozed, and he wuz a-hastenin' to the next place where he wuz to be setup, so's to lose no time, and ...
— Samantha Among the Brethren, Complete • Josiah Allen's Wife (Marietta Holley)

... Strong coldly, "I want you to know right now that I don't like this setup. There are many things cadets might be, but they ...
— The Space Pioneers • Carey Rockwell

... kindness, Shelton fell to analysing it. To himself, to people of his class, the use of kindness was a luxury, not significant of sacrifice, but productive of a pleasant feeling in the heart, such as massage will setup in the legs. "Everybody's kind," he thought; "the question is, What understanding is there, what real sympathy?" This problem gave ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy



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