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Install

//ɪnˈstɔːl// noun, verb, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    An installation: the process of installing a software application. informal

    "The install takes a long time, but you can run it in the background while working on other things."

  2. 2
    An installation: a software application that has been installed. informal

    "I've customized my local install; the out-of-the-box version looks a bit different."

Verb
  1. 1
    To connect, set up or prepare something for use transitive

    "Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion.""

  2. 2
    set up for use wordnet
  3. 3
    To connect, set up or prepare something for use; To transfer software onto a device's permanent storage and put it in a state where it is ready to be run when needed, usually decompressing it if necessary and performing any necessary pre-first-run configuration. transitive

    "I haven't installed the new operating system yet because of all the bugs."

  4. 4
    place wordnet
  5. 5
    To admit formally into an office, rank or position. transitive

    "He was installed as Chancellor of the University."

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  1. 6
    put into an office or a position wordnet
  2. 7
    To establish or settle in. reflexive, sometimes, transitive

    "I installed myself in my usual chair by the fire."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English installen, from Old French installer, from Medieval Latin īnstallō (“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 *stel-, *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.

Etymology 2

From Middle English installen, from Old French installer, from Medieval Latin īnstallō (“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 *stel-, *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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