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Definition: Instal |
InstalVerb1. Set up for use; "install the washer and dryer"; "We put in a new sink". 2. Place; "Her manager had set her up at the Ritz". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "instal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references) |
Synonyms: InstalSynonyms: establish (v), install (v), put in (v), set up (v). (additional references) |
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| "Instal" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Instal" is used about 18 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 18 | 82,615 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "instal": instal oneself. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
instal | 35 |
instal msn | 8 |
error instal xp | 5 |
instal messenger msn | 4 |
bar hot instal not | 4 |
instal koel | 3 |
instal window xp | 3 |
instal komo | 2 |
instal projekt | 2 |
instal turbo | 2 |
instal printer | 2 |
instal shock wave | 2 |
instal window | 2 |
hard drive instal | 2 |
aim instal | 2 |
instal java | 2 |
amplifier instal | 2 |
instal messenger | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "instal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | instaloj (install, lay), vendos (arrange, be determined, Canton, choose, compose, conclude, dare, decide, determine, dispose, elect, elicit, emplace, establish, fix, house, induct, install, instate, judge, lay, locate, make up one's mind, place, propose, put, quarter, recline, resolve, rule, seat, set, settle, situate, station, Stow, take the plunge, will), vë (apply, attach, contract, deposit, direct, establish, get in, get on, impose, inflict, install, instate, lay, lay down, locate, mislay, place, plant, pull on, put, set, settle, shut, stand, station, stick, Stow), emëroj (appoint, install, name, nominate, rubricate), caktoj (allocate, allot, appoint, appropriate, arrange, assign, award, call, constitute, designate, detail, fix, install, instate, intend, lay on, make, mete, name, nominate, order, put, qualify, set, tell off, zone). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | настанявам (accommodate, collocate, encamp, establish, fix up, induct, install, place, put up, set, set up, settle, station), нагласявам (focalize, install, orchestrate, piece together, put up, rectify, redress, set), монтирам (assemble, erect, install, rig, rig up), инсталирам (fix, fix up, install, put in). (various references) | |
Chinese | 安装 (install, Installed, installing). (various references) | |
Danish | montageforpligtelse (obligation to instal). (various references) | |
Dutch | montageverplichting (obligation to instal). (various references) | |
Finnish | asettaa (instal ... in office, lay, place, put, reinstate in one's post, set). (various references) | |
French | engagement de montage (obligation to instal). (various references) | |
German | Montageverpflichtung (obligation to instal). (various references) | |
Greek | υποχρέωση εγκατάστασης των μεταφερομένων (obligation to instal). (various references) | |
Hungarian | létesít (activate, charter, found, install, make, to erect, to establish, to initiate, to institute, to originate, to rig up, to set up), felszerel (arm, equip, fit out, fit up, gang, install, Mount, outfit, rig up, set up, stock up, to accoutre, to emboss, to equip, to fit out, to fit up, to furnish, to gang, to install, to issue, to line up, to refit, to remount, to rig out, to rig up, to stock, to store, to tool up), elhelyez (fix up, house, install, locate, Lodge, place, quarter, set, settle, situate, space, Stow, to accommodate, to depose, to fix up, to install, to park, to place, to plant, to recess, to seat, to stow), bevezet (bring into play, carry into effect, install, institute, introduce, lead in, pass into, preamble, prelude, show in, to add sg in, to bring in, to inaugurate, to induct, to initiate, to preface, to put in, to take in, to usher, to wire), berendez (equip, furnish, install, to equip, to furnish, to refit, to upholster, upholster), beiktat (inaugurate, induct, inset, install, intercalate, record, register, to enrol, to enroll, to inaugurate, to induct, to put in, to reinstate). (various references) | |
Italian | installare (install, put in, settle in, wire), insediare (establish, induct, instal oneself, install, install oneself, seat, take office), impiantare (establish, fit, implant, install, set up). (various references) | |
Korean | 설치하십시요 (Establish, install). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | instalay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | instalar (erect, establish, found, hand in, install, locate, lodge, plant, quarter, seat, settle), implantar (engraft, enplane, implant, install, lodge), proceder à montagem de (install), empossar (enthrone, induct, install, institute, invest, seat, swear in), dar posse a (install). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | instalirati (install), uvoditi (bring into, install, introduce), uvesti (bring in, induct, install, introduce, invest, lead into, show in, take into), sprovesti (carry out, carry through, conduct, convey, escort, install, lead, put in, put through, take), provesti (carry out, guide, install, put in, show through, spend), postaviti (appoint, designate, induct, install, mount, pad, picket, pitch, place, plant, pose, posit, post, put, quilt, seat, set, set out, set up, situate, string), montirati (assemble, edit, install, rig). (various references) | |
Spanish | instalarse (install, move in, settle down, settle in, settle oneself, shake down), instalar (establish, install, lay, lay on, plant, put in, set up, take up), poner (add, adjust, affix, alight, append, arrange, attach, bet, call, clap, connect, contribute, deposit, do, dress, drop, encase, enclose, entangle, expend, fasten, get down, get on, give, give in, impawn, impose, inclose, insert, install, invest, job, jug, kick out, land, lay, lay down, light, make, open, perform, place, play back, pose, post, provoke, put, put down, put into, put on, put out, put through, put up, raise, read, send, set, set up, slip on, stake, stand, start, stick, stick down, Stow, suppose, switch on, tag on, take, take along, throw in, translate, turn on, wear), hacer instalación (install). (various references) | |
Swedish | installera (enthrone, establish, fix, inaugurate, induct, install, institute, invest, put in, run, seat), sätta upp (draft, draw, install, perk, pin, pitch, put up, set up, stage), montera (assemble, fabricate, fit, fix, install, link, mount, put up), lägga in (case, cure, encase, incase, inject, inlay, install, lay on, pickle, put in), dra in (call in, discontinue, draw in, embroil, implicate, indent, install, involve, retire, retract, take off). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | улаштовувати (accommodate, install, organize, put), офіційно призначати на посаду (install). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "instal": install, installation, installations, installed, installer, installers, installing, installment, installments, installs, instalment, instalments, instals. (additional references) | |
Words containing "instal": noninstallment, reinstall, reinstallation, reinstallations, reinstalled, reinstalling, reinstalls. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-l-n-s-t" | |
-1 letter: alist, anils, antis, lints, litas, nails, saint, satin, slain, slant, snail, stain, tails, tains. | |
-2 letters: ails, ains, aits, alit, alts, anil, anis, anti, ants, lain, last, lati, lats, lins, lint, list, lits, nail, nils, nits, sail, sain, salt, sati, sial, silt, slat, slit, snit, tail, tain, tali, tans, tils, tins. | |
-3 letters: ail, ain. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-l-n-s-t" | |
+1 letter: catlins, elastin, entails, install, instals, lasting, latinos, lattins, nailset, nastily, plaints, ratlins, saintly, salient, saltine, salting, slainte, slating, staling, talions, tenails, tincals. | |
+2 letters: ailments, alations, alienist, aliments, alpinist, alunites, annalist, anthills, antilogs, antislip, antlions, blasting, castling, catlings, displant, elastins, elations, entrails, fantails, fatlings, finalist, gelatins, genitals, handlist, implants, inflates, initials, insolate, instable, installs, insulant, insulate, inthrals, lanitals, lankiest, lanosity, lastings, lathings, latrines, litanies, lunatics, lutanist, manliest, melanist, misplant, nailsets, nasality, nautilus, nuptials, panelist, pantiles, pintails, plainest, platinas, platings, ptyalins, quintals, ratlines, retinals, salients, salinity, saltines, saltings, saluting, santalic, scantily, sibilant, simulant, slanting, slatings, slatting, smaltine, solating, solation, stabling, stalking, stalling, stallion, staminal, stapling, starling, stealing, stillman, stunsail, sultanic, tailfans, tailings, tailspin, talisman, talkings, toenails, tonsilar, trenails, unplaits, valiants, ventails. | |
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