install

Verb

WordNet 3.0

Verb (3)

  1. set up for use“install the washer and dryer”“We put in a new sink”Synonyms: instalput inset up
  2. put into an office or a position“the new president was installed immediately after the election”Synonyms: instal
  3. place“Her manager had set her up at the Ritz”Synonyms: instalset upestablish
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Install \In*stall"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Installed; p. pr. & vb. n. Installing.] [F. installer, LL. installare, fr. pref. in- in + OHG. stal a place, stall, G. stall, akin to E. stall: cf. It. installare. See Stall.] [Written also instal.] [1913 Webster]

1.To set in a seat; to give a place to; establish (one) in a place. [1913 Webster]

She installed her guest hospitably by the fireside.— Sir W. Scott.[1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

Unworthily Thou wast installed in that high degree.— Shak.[1913 Webster]
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