run up vs set up

run up

verb
  • To string up; to hang. 

  • To approach (an event or point in time). 

  • To accumulate (a debt). 

  • To thrust up, as anything long and slender. 

  • To make something, usually an item of clothing, very quickly. 

  • To take to a destination or before an authority. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, up. 

  • To rise; to swell; to grow; to increase. 

  • Of a bowler, to run, or walk up to the bowling crease in order to bowl a ball. 

  • To bring (a flag) to the top of its flag pole. 

  • To run (towards someone or something); to hasten to a destination. 

  • To erect hastily, as a building. 

set up

verb
  • To trap or ensnare. 

  • To trick someone in order to make them do something. 

  • To cause to happen. 

  • To level to rise in one part of a body of water, especially a shallow one, because of a storm surge caused by persistent wind. 

  • To profess openly; to make pretensions. 

  • To matchmake; to arrange a date between two people. 

  • To provide the money or other support that someone needs for an important task or activity. 

  • To arrange logically. 

  • To cause to take flight; to flush into the air. 

  • To establish someone in a business or position. 

  • To gel or harden. 

  • To ready something for use. 

  • To create a goalscoring opportunity (for). 

  • To make (someone) proud or conceited (often in passive). 

  • To ready for use. 

  • To found; to start (a business, scheme) 

  • To arrange for an outcome; to tamper or rig. 

  • To deceive an opponent and capitalize on their reactions with a certain technique or maneuver. 

adj
  • In a position to function; ready. 

How often have the words run up and set up occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )