What is the meaning of set up?

verb

• Set up or found.
  • usage: "She set up a literacy program"
  • synonyms: establish, found, launch
• Create by putting components or members together.
  • usage: "She pieced a quilt"; "He tacked together some verses"; "They set up a committee"
  • synonyms: assemble, piece, put together, tack, tack together
• Construct, build, or erect.
  • usage: "Raise a barn"
  • synonyms: raise, erect, rear, put up
• Get ready for a particular purpose or event.
  • usage: "set up an experiment"; "set the table"; "lay out the tools for the surgery"
  • synonyms: lay out, set
• Put into a proper or systematic order.
  • usage: "arrange the books on the shelves in chronological order"
  • synonyms: arrange
• Begin, or enable someone else to begin, a venture by providing the means, logistics, etc..
  • usage: "set up an election"
• Take or catch as if in a snare or trap.
  • usage: "I was set up"; "The innocent man was framed by the police"
  • synonyms: ensnare, entrap, frame
• Produce.
  • usage: "The scientists set up a shock wave"
  • synonyms: effect, effectuate
• Set up for use.
  • usage: "install the washer and dryer"; "We put in a new sink"
  • synonyms: install, instal, put in
• Place.
  • usage: "Her manager had set her up at the Ritz"
  • synonyms: install, instal, establish
• Arrange the outcome of by means of deceit.
  • usage: "rig an election"
  • synonyms: rig
• Erect and fasten.
  • usage: "pitch a tent"
  • synonyms: pitch
• Arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events.
  • usage: "arrange my schedule"; "set up one's life"; "I put these memories with those of bygone times"
  • synonyms: arrange, put, order
• Equip with sails or masts.
  • usage: "rig a ship"
  • synonyms: rig, set
• Make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc.
  • usage: "Get the children ready for school"; "prepare for war"; "I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill"
  • synonyms: fix, prepare, ready, gear up, set