setup

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.
3. A situation orchestrated to frame someone; a covert effort to place the blame on somebody. · Trust me, that was a setup!
4. An installer.
5. The process or instance of arranging resources for performing a specific operation, as a run of a particular product. · A simple setup on the bottling line involves reloading bottles and labels; emptying, cleaning, and reloading the tanks; and a test run.
6. 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.
7. 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.

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