The difference between Ready and Set up
When used as verbs, ready means to prepare, whereas set up means to ready something for use.
When used as adjectives, ready means prepared for immediate action or use, whereas set up means in a position to function.
Ready is also noun with the meaning: ready money.
check bellow for the other definitions of Ready and Set up
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Ready as an adjective:
Prepared for immediate action or use.
Examples:
"The troops are ready for battle.  The porridge is ready to serve."
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Ready as an adjective:
Inclined; apt to happen.
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Ready as an adjective:
Liable at any moment.
Examples:
"The seed is ready to sprout."
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Ready as an adjective:
Not slow or hesitating; quick in action or perception of any kind; dexterous; prompt; easy; expert.
Examples:
"a ready apprehension;  ready wit;  a ready writer or workman"
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Ready as an adjective:
Offering itself at once; at hand; opportune; convenient.
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Ready as a verb (transitive):
To prepare; to make ready for action.
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Ready as a noun (slang):
ready money; cash
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Set up as a verb:
To ready something for use.
Examples:
"We set up the sprinkler."
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Set up as a verb:
Logically order.
Examples:
"Set up my CD collection."
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Set up as a verb:
To cause to happen
Examples:
"Even a minor change can set up new bugs."
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Set up as a verb:
To trap or ensnare.
Examples:
"I've got to set up that tasty rabbit."
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Set up as a verb:
Arrange for an outcome; to tamper or rig.
Examples:
"The election was set up!"
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Set up as a verb:
To gel or harden.
Examples:
"Give the cement 24 hours to set up before walking on it."
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Set up as a verb:
to provide the money or other support that someone needs for an important task or activity.
Examples:
"Winning the lottery has set them up for life''."
"A good breakfast really sets you up for the day''."
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Set up as a verb:
to establish someone in a business or position.
Examples:
"After he left college, his father set him up in the family business''."
"She set herself up as an interior designer''."
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Set up as a verb (informal):
to trick someone in order to make them do something.
Examples:
"They claimed that they weren't selling drugs, but that they'd been set up by the police''."
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Set up as a verb:
To make (someone) proud or conceited (often in passive).
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Set up as a verb:
To matchmake; to arrange a date between two people.
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Set up as a verb (sports, transitive):
To create a goalscoring opportunity (for).
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Set up as a verb (dated, intransitive):
To begin business or a scheme of life.
Examples:
"to set up in trade; to set up for oneself"
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Set up as a verb:
To profess openly; to make pretensions.
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Set up as a verb:
To found; to start (a business, scheme)
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Set up as an adjective:
In a position to function; ready.
Examples:
"Now that I'm set up, this will take moments!"