noun
1. equipment designed to serve a specific function (Freq. 2)
• Syn: ↑apparatus
• Hypernyms: ↑equipment
• Hyponyms:
↑aerator, ↑burner, ↑cascade liquefier, ↑centrifuge, ↑extractor, ↑separator, ↑chemical reactor, ↑condenser, ↑duplicator, ↑copier, ↑electrograph, ↑generator, ↑heat pump, ↑heliograph, ↑incubator, ↑brooder, ↑instillator, ↑Kipp's apparatus, ↑lighting, ↑nuclear reactor, ↑reactor, ↑optical bench, ↑pendulum, ↑purifier, ↑reformer, ↑semaphore, ↑sequencer, ↑sequenator, ↑soda fountain, ↑still, ↑submersible, ↑telegraph, ↑telegraphy, ↑titrator, ↑X-ray machine
2. the way something is organized or arranged (Freq. 1)
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it takes time to learn the setup around here
• Usage Domain: ↑colloquialism
3. an act that incriminates someone on a false charge
• Syn: ↑frame-up
• Derivationally related forms: ↑set up
• Hypernyms: ↑falsification, ↑falsehood
Useful english dictionary. 2012.