English Dictionary

set up

動詞

他動詞 自動詞 くだけた表現 古風

(transitive) To ready for use. / (transitive) To arrange logically. / (transitive) To cause to happen. / (transitive) To trap or ensnare. / (transitive) To arrange for an outcome; to tamper or rig.

日本語の意味

使用の準備をする / 論理的に配置する・整理する / （何かを）引き起こす / 罠にかける・落とし入れる / 結果を操作する（取り計らう、ねらい通りに仕向ける）

We need to set up the projector before the meeting.

会議の前にプロジェクターを準備する必要があります。

意味（1）

(transitive) To ready for use.

We set up the sprinkler.

意味（2）

(transitive) To arrange logically.

Set up my CD collection.

意味（3）

(transitive) To cause to happen.

Even a minor change can set up new bugs.

意味（4）

(transitive) To trap or ensnare.

I've got to set up that tasty rabbit.

意味（5）

(transitive) To arrange for an outcome; to tamper or rig.

The election was set up!

意味（6）

(intransitive) To ready something for use.

意味（7）

(intransitive) To gel or harden.

Give the cement 24 hours to set up before walking on it.

意味（8）

(intransitive) To level to rise in one part of a body of water, especially a shallow one, because of a storm surge caused by persistent wind.

The level set up at the south end of the lake after a day of north winds.

意味（9）

(transitive) To provide the money or other support that someone needs for an important task or activity.

Winning the lottery has set them up for life.

意味（10）

(transitive) To establish someone in a business or position.

After he left college, his father set him up in the family business.

意味（11）

(informal, transitive) To trick someone in order to make them do something.

They claimed that they weren't selling drugs, but that they'd been set up by the police.

意味（12）

(transitive) To make (someone) proud or conceited (often in passive).

M. Robespierre looked at me sideways and smiled and said to Madame, ‘You're a young lady after my own heart.’ This set her up for the day.

意味（13）

(transitive) To matchmake; to arrange a date between two people.

意味（14）

(sports, transitive) To create a goalscoring opportunity (for).

Just past the hour Agbonlahor set up the second, crossing for Bent to net.

意味（15）

(dated, intransitive) To begin business or a scheme of life.

to set up in trade; to set up for oneself

意味（16）

To profess openly; to make pretensions.

those men who set up for morality without regard to religion, are generally virtuous but in part

意味（17）

(transitive) To found; to start (a business, scheme)

With the help of his wife Bilquis, he set up a maternal health clinic and a centre for abandoned children.

意味（18）

(boxing) To deceive an opponent and capitalize on their reactions with a certain technique or maneuver.

When you make an opening you merely cause an opponent to uncover a target somewhere on his person. But when you set up an opponent, you knock him off balance with one punch so that he should be an open target for a following punch. Unless he's knocked off balance, he's not set up.

意味（19）

To cause to take flight; to flush into the air.

Edmund had enjoyed a good gallop over the downs, setting up the sandpipers[.]

sets up （ present singular third-person ）

setting up （ participle present ）

set up （ participle past ）

set up （ past ）