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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To connect or set in position and prepare for use.
  • transitive verb To induct into an office, rank, or position.
  • transitive verb To settle in an indicated place or condition; establish.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To place in a seat; give a place to.
  • To set, place, or instate in an office, rank, or order; invest with any charge, office, or rank with the customary ceremonies.
  • To place in position for service or use.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To set in a seat; to give a place to; establish (one) in a place.
  • transitive verb To place in an office, rank, or order; to invest with any charge by the usual ceremonies; to instate; to induct

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To connect, set up or prepare something for use
  • verb transitive To admit formally into an office, rank or position.
  • verb transitive To establish or settle in.
  • noun informal Installation. (Usage originated as a truncated form of the word installation.)
  • noun computing (jargon): A computer software utility that is run to install a software application. Also used attributively.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb set up for use
  • verb place
  • verb put into an office or a position

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English installen, to place in office, from Old French installer, from Medieval Latin īnstallāre : Latin in-, in; see in– + stallum, stall, place; see stel- in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle English installen, from Medieval Latin installō ("to install, put in place, establish"), from in- + stallum ("stall"), from Frankish *stall (“stall, position, place”), from Proto-Germanic *stallaz (“place, position”), from Proto-Indo-European *stelǝ-, *stAlǝn-, *stAlǝm- (“stem, trunk”). Cognate with Old High German stal ("location, stall"), Old English steall ("position, stall"), Old English onstellan ("to institute, create, originate, establish, give the example of"), Middle High German anstalt ("institute"), German anstellen ("to conduct, employ"), German einstellen ("to set, adjust, position"), Dutch aanstellen ("to appoint, commission, institute"), Dutch instellen ("to set up, establish"). More at in, stall.

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synonyms (80)

Words with the same meaning

  1. allocate
  2. anoint
  3. assign
  4. base
  5. bring up
  6. broach
  7. build
  8. build in
  9. chair
  10. christen
  11. collocate
  12. connect
  13. constitute
  14. crown
  15. deploy
  16. dispose
  17. effect
  18. effectuate
  19. emplace
  20. enlist
  21. enroll
  22. enthrone
  23. establish
  24. fit
  25. fix
  26. float
  27. form
  28. found
  29. get a fix
  30. ground
  31. home in on
  32. inaugurate
  33. incept
  34. induct
  35. initiate
  36. instate
  37. institute
  38. introduce
  39. invest
  40. launch
  41. lay the foundation
  42. lift up
  43. localize
  44. locate
  45. materialize
  46. navigate
  47. ordain
  48. organize
  49. pin down
  50. pinpoint
  51. pitch
  52. place
  53. place in office
  54. plant
  55. position
  56. put
  57. put in
  58. put in place
  59. put up
  60. raise
  61. realize
  62. ring in
  63. seat
  64. set
  65. set agoing
  66. set on foot
  67. set up
  68. settle
  69. sign on
  70. sign up
  71. situate
  72. spot
  73. start going
  74. start up
  75. throne
  76. triangulate
  77. turn on
  78. usher in
  79. vest
  80. zero in on

antonyms (1)

Words with the opposite meaning

  1. uninstall

hyponyms (5)

Words more specific or concrete

  1. Seat
  2. enthrone
  3. induct
  4. invest
  5. vest

same context (20)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. actuating
  2. add
  3. addressable
  4. anti-theft
  5. attention-getting
  6. charge-coupled
  7. cloaking
  8. floatation
  9. hot-swappable
  10. intrauterine
  11. key-operated
  12. labour-saving
  13. multi-touch
  14. non-touch
  15. normally-open
  16. pistol-like
  17. superconducting-quantum-interference
  18. typesof
  19. ultra-precision
  20. web-enabled

variants (2)

Variants

  1. installed
  2. installing

forms (4)

Forms

  1. installed
  2. installing
  3. installs
  4. instals

relateds (1)

relateds

  1. installation

rhymes (55)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Ball
  2. Fall
  3. Gaul
  4. Hall
  5. Montreal
  6. Nepal
  7. Paul
  8. Raul
  9. Saul
  10. Senegal
  11. all
  12. appall
  13. aul
  14. ball
  15. baseball
  16. bawl
  17. befall
  18. brawl
  19. call
  20. caul
  21. crall
  22. crawl
  23. drawl
  24. enthral
  25. fall
  26. forestall
  27. gall
  28. hall
  29. haul
  30. kall
  31. lall
  32. luminol
  33. mall
  34. maul
  35. maule
  36. mol
  37. nall
  38. pall
  39. pol
  40. rall
  41. recall
  42. sall
  43. scrawl
  44. shaul
  45. shawl
  46. small
  47. spall
  48. sprawl
  49. squall
  50. stall
  51. tall
  52. thrall
  53. tol
  54. wal
  55. wall

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