What is "sets up"

Usage examples of "sets up".

Taking its time, the Worm proceeds to one of the Batts or Islands in the River, where it sets up its base of operations.

He moves Meriwhen, the crane, and the ropes and pulleys, and their anchors to the other end of the foundation, where he sets up for the same effort.

The information from that ship sets up a new plan to get at Zsinj -- they will go undercover as the corvette's crew to find Zsinj's weak spots.

Then Sawatzki decides it's done and sets up a double row of pot-bellied two-quart bottles.

Goto Dengo sets up the tripod and the transit while Ninomiya uses his sextant to shoot the sun.

That is, one does not find that a weak stimulus sets up a weak impulse, while a stronger stimulus sets up a stronger impulse.

Ballard sets up the universe of _The Crystal World_ as a place of opposites, foremost among them the living/rotting jungle versus the dead/magnificent crystals.

The terrain is comparable to Klameth Canyon, which sets up a trickle of unease through my threat-assessment processors.