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Instal

Definition: Instal

Instal

Verb

1. 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: Instal

Synonyms: establish (v), install (v), put in (v), set up (v). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Instal

DomainTitle

Books

  • Pere Noguera : instal.laciâo llacs, illes, pedrals i morts (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Instal
 

"Win 98, bleah :)" by Ovidiu Sopa
Commentary: "My license of win 98 CD in 100 of pices after trying to instal from a LG 52x Drive. :(."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Usage Frequency: Instal

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%1882,615

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Instal

Expression using "instal": instal oneself. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Instal

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Modern Translation: Instal

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), (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.

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Derivations: Instal

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).

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Anagrams: Instal

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Digital Art
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Anagrams
11. Bibliography


  

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