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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Installer |
Occupations | Performs any combination of following duties to install fixtures and appliances and lay floor covering in mobile and modular homes and travel trailer coaches, using handtools and power tools: Locates, measures, and outlines installation areas for fixtures, such as partitions, doors, window facing, cabinets, and trim; and appliances, such as stoves, refrigerators, and heaters; using blueprint, tape measure, and chalk. Drills holes, attaches brackets and other holding devices, and installs fixtures and appliances, using power drills and screwdrivers. Measures, cuts, and flares copper tubing used as gas supply line and connects tubing to range, furnace, and heater, using cutter, flaring tools, and pliers. Connects water supply and drainage pipelines to sinks, bathtubs, shower, and toilet, using wrenches. Connects wiring to electrical appliances, using screwdriver and pliers. Measures, cuts out, and lays floor covering, such as linoleum tile and carpet, using tape measure, knife, cement trowel, and staple gun. Measures, cuts out, and attaches metal and wood molding around sink tops, cabinets, counter edges, and carpeting. Installs hardware, such as doorknobs, rods, racks, and holders. May drill holes through floor and bolt floor to metal chassis of mobile home, using drill, bolts, and impact wrench. May uncrate appliances and inspect for defects, such as dents or scratches. May direct activities of other workers. May be designated according to article installed as Appliance Installer (mfd. bldgs.; vehicles, nec); Cabinet-And-Trim Installer (mfd. bldgs.; vehicles, nec); Door Installer (mfd. bldgs.; vehicles, nec) II; Hardware Installer (mfd. bldgs.; vehicles, nec); Tile Installer (mfd. bldgs.; vehicles, nec). (references) |
| Moves, installs, and stores paintings, statuary, and other art objects in art museum: Places protective pads on handtruck platform and lifts paintings, statuary, or other art objects onto handtruck and places protective pads between and around objects to ensure against damage. Pushes handtruck from shipping-receiving area to storage or display gallery as directed by supervisor. Places objects to be stored in designated sections of storage area. Removes objects to be displayed from handtruck, hangs paintings, and positions statuary and other objects in cabinets or on stands as directed. Dismantles exhibit components, as directed, and moves art objects, cabinets, and other display items to storage area. Moves designated objects from storage area to shipping room. (references) | |
| Installs electrical protective signaling systems used to notify central office of fire, burglary, or other irregularities on subscribers' premises: Installs wires, conduits, and signaling units, following blueprints of electrical layouts and building plans and using handtools, power tools and soldering iron. May repair signaling systems [PROTECTIVE-SIGNAL REPAIRER (business ser.)]. Usually is required to possess identification card issued by local authorities. (references) | |
| Installs draperies in customers' homes: Measures area to be covered, and delivers finished draperies to customers' homes. Screws and bolts brackets and hangers onto wall, using handtools. Hangs and arranges draperies to enhance appearance of room. May install window shades and venetian blinds. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: INSTALLER |
| Specialty definitions using "INSTALLER": AIR-CONDITIONING MECHANIC, AUTOMOBILE-ACCESSORIES INSTALLER, automobile-refrigeration mechanic ♦ burglar-alarm installer and servicer ♦ ELECTRICAL-INSTALLATION SUPERVISOR ♦ fitter helper ♦ GAS-METER-INSTALLER HELPER ♦ LAMINATOR, HAND ♦ pbx repairer, PIPE-FITTER HELPER, PIPE-ORGAN BUILDER, PIPE-ORGAN TUNER AND REPAIRER, PRIVATE-BRANCH-EXCHANGE REPAIRER, PROTECTIVE-SIGNAL REPAIRER, PROTECTIVE-SIGNAL-INSTALLER HELPER ♦ REFRIGERATION MECHANIC ♦ service inspector, SERVICE RESTORER, EMERGENCY, SOLAR-ENERGY-SYSTEM-INSTALLER HELPER, STEEL-POST-INSTALLER SUPERVISOR ♦ telephone repairer, television repairer, TELEVISION-AND-RADIO REPAIRER, THIRD-RAIL INSTALLER ♦ uninstaller. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "INSTALLER" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (induct, install, plant, put up, rig up, set, set up, wire). |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
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Business | The dominant installer of steel framing, Metal Wall, is a sister company to Siderar, the steel producer. (references) | |
This company is also the main sponsor of the Consul Steel association, and sister company within Techint to the dominant installer. (references) | ||
U.S. companies that do not wish to operate with a direct presence should have an agent or distributor, or contact the various installer associations, which are active in all 95 Italian provinces. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "INSTALLER" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "INSTALLER" is used about 35 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 35 | 58,339 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "INSTALLER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 安置者. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Installateur (electrician, gas fitter, plumber). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | インスタント食" (incense, incentive, incentive sale, incest, insecurity, inside slider, insole, inspection, inspector, inspiration, install, installation, installment, instant, instant foods, instep kick, instinct, institution, instruction, instructions, instructor, instrument panel, inter high school, inter seminar, intercept, interceptor, interchange, intercollegiate, intercourse, intercut, international, International Baccalaureat, internationalism, internetwork, internetworking, interoperability, interstate highway, interval, interval training, the Internet). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | インストーラ . (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 설치자. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | installeray installerare. (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "INSTALLER": installers. (additional references) | |
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"INSTALLER" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Intellex. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "INSTALLER" (pronounced i'nstô"ler) |
| 4 | -t ô" l er | taller. |
| 3 | -ô" l er | baller, caller, faller, hauler, mauler, smaller, trawler. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: reinstall. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-l-n-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: entrails, latrines, literals, ratlines, retinals, talliers, trenails. | |
-2 letters: ainsell, aliners, anestri, antlers, antsier, elastin, entails, install, latrine, lentils, lintels, linters, literal, nailers, nailset, nastier, rallies, ralline, ratines, ratline, ratlins, realist, reliant, renails, rentals, retails, retains, retinal, retinas, retsina, rillets, salient, sallier, saltern, saltier, saltine, saltire, slainte, slatier, stainer, stearin, stellar, sternal, stiller. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-l-n-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: allethrins, flatliners, installers, reinstalls. | |
+2 letters: carnallites, citronellas, crystalline, disenthrall, gallantries, literalness, reinstalled, surveillant. | |
+3 letters: antiliberals, citronellals, disenthralls, forestalling, interstellar, intervalleys, reinstalling, steamrolling, surveillants, tranquillest. | |
+4 letters: alliterations, anticlericals, bipropellants, brilliantines, crenellations, disenthralled, everlastingly, extrinsically, interglacials, interpellates, intersexually, intertillages, literalnesses, ministerially, reallocations, residentially, sempiternally, tranquillizes, turbellarians. | |
+5 letters: acrylonitriles, antiguerrillas, antiliberalism, candlelighters, collinearities, counterrallies, disenthralling, dorsiventrally, estrogenically, illiterateness, instrumentally, intermetallics, interpellators, interstitially, isentropically, lognormalities, noncrystalline, presidentially, recalculations, redistillation, reinstallation, slatternliness, steamrollering, tranquillities, tranquillizers, ultramasculine, ultraviolences, uncrystallized, unhysterically. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Synonyms 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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