install
VerbUS[in-stawl]/ˌɪnˈstɔl/2 syllables
Open English WordNet
Verb (3)installed, installing
- set up for use“install the washer and dryer”“We put in a new sink”Synonyms: instalput inset upMore general put, setMore specific post, instal, reinstall, retrofit
- put into an office or a position“the new president was installed immediately after the election”Synonyms: instalMore general put, setMore specific induct, invest
- place“Her manager had set her up at the Ritz”Synonyms: instalset upestablishMore general instal, put in
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Translations
Verb set something up for use
- Spanish
- instalar
- French
- installer
- German
- installieren
- Italian
- installare
- Portuguese
- instalar
- Turkish
- kurmak
- Russian
- устана́вливать ustanávlivatʹ
- Arabic
- رَكَّبَ rakkaba
- Chinese
- 安装 ānzhuāng
- Japanese
- 取り付ける toritsukeru
22 more languages
- Dutch
- installeren
- Polish
- instalować
- Swedish
- installera
- Greek
- εγκαθιστώ egkathistó
- Korean
- 설치하다 seolchihada
- Indonesian
- memasang
- Vietnamese
- cài đặt
- Hungarian
- installál
- Portuguese (PT)
- instalar
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 安裝 ānzhuāng
- Albanian
- vendos
- Breton
- sevel
- Catalan
- instal·lar
- Czech
- instalovat
- Danish
- installere
- Esperanto
- instali
- Finnish
- asentaa
- Hebrew
- התקין hitkín
- Kurdish
- saz kirin
- Norwegian
- installere
- Romanian
- instala
- Serbo-Croatian
- instalirati
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
In·stall′ transitive verb [past tense & past participle Installed; present participle & verbal noun Installing.] [Written also instal.]
Origin: F. installer, LL. installare, fr. pref. in- in + OHG. stal a place, stall, G. stall, akin to E. stall: cf. It. installare. See Stall.
1. To set in a seat; to give a place to; establish (one) in a place.
She installed her guest hospitably by the fireside.— Sir Walter Scott
2. To place in an office, rank, or order; to invest with any charge by the usual ceremonies; to instate; to induct; as, to install an ordained minister as pastor of a church; to install a college president.
Unworthily Thou wast installed in that high degree.— William Shakespeare
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54