Install

Definition: Install

Install

Verb

1. Set up for use; "install the washer and dryer"; "We put in a new sink".

2. Put into an office or a position; "the new president was installed immediately after the election".

3. Place; "Her manager had set her up at the Ritz".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "install" was first used: sometime around 1422. (references)

Note: Install \In*stall"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Installed; present participle verb or noun Installing.]. (references)

Building & Civil Engineering

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

Synonyms: Install

Celebration

Inaugurate, install, chair.

Commission

Put in commission, accredit, engage, hire, bespeak, appoint, name, nominate, return, ordain; install, induct, inaugurate, swear in, invest, crown; enroll, enlist; give power of attorney to.

Location

Verb: place, situate, locate, localize, make a place for, put, lay, set, seat, station, lodge, quarter, post, install; house, stow; establish, fix, pin, root; graft; plant; (insert); shelve, pitch, camp, lay down, deposit, reposit; cradle; moor, tether, picket; pack, tuck in; embed, imbed; vest, invest in.

Crosswords: Install

Install the device tonight, while he's asleep (2010; writing credit: Arthur C. Clarke; Peter Hyams)

And answer those phones, install a computer system, and rotate my office so the window faces the hills (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Anyway, are you gonna get a handyman to install all this stuff (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen)

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

Books

• A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Street Supercharging: How to Install & Tune Blowers (reference)

• How to Install Ceramic Tile (reference)

• Plumbing 1-2-3 : Install, Upgrade, Repair, and Maintain Your Home's Plumbing System (reference)

• Shoji: How to Design, Build, and Install Japanese Screens (reference)

• Understanding Ventilation: How to Design, Select, and Install Residential Ventilation Systems (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Install Rebel Government Here (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• WebSphere Application Server 3.5 Standard Edition (1 Server Install) (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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

At a Hillsborough County school, student volunteers split donor plants and install them into rooting trays for use in a new wetland nursery. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Airmen First Class Ledian Borcato and Heber Laing install flight deck equipment on a C-130 aircraft during and inspection at the 374th Maintenance Squadron/Refurbishment Flight, Yokota Air Base, Japan. The aircraft is undergoing a complete interior and ex.

NRCS conservationists Graylen Hall, right, and Tracy Sexton, center, work with a landowner in Vienna, Georgia, to install a conservation plan for his farm. Credit: Dot Paul.

A Boone County landowner, right, helps a contractor install a riser for an underground outlet terrace system. Credit: Charlie Rahm.

The NRCS is working with the Goshute Indian Reservation near Ibapah, UT, to install more efficient irrigation systems on tribal lands. From left, Environmental Specialist at the Goshute Indian Reservation, Carlos Garcia, NRCS, and Goshute Tribal Chairman. Credit: Ron Nichols.

Boy Scouts install hand rail on the foot bridge at McGowen Creek. Credit: Jill Williams.

Volunteers install bird boxes along the trail at McGowen Creek. Credit: Jill Williams.

CH-46A helicopter from USS Sylvania (AFS-2) lifts a new Tactical Air Navigation (TACAN) radome into position atop Boston's foremast, during replacement of the cruiser's lightning-damaged TACAN transmitter and radome in the Mediterranean Sea. The photograph accompanies a USS Boston press release dated 26 February 1966. The damage was received in the northern Aegean Sea in January 1966. Due to non-availability of suitable cranes in the area, and the ship's operating schedule, the helicopter was used to remove the original transmitter and install its replacements. Pilots were Lieutenant Commander R.W. Russell and Lieutenant (Junior Grade) T.H. Hoivik. Controller was Lieutenant B.E. Allen, working on the mast platform assisted by Electronics Technicians 3rd Class Ken Lohrey and Jim Ramey. Credit: NAVY.

Production. Halftrac armoured cars. Preparing to install non-leaking gasoline tanks on the chassis of a halftrac scout car. The Eastern plant in which the body is made and installed formerly produced locks and safes. Diebold Safe and Lock Company, Canton,. Credit: Library of Congress.

Dickinson farm and ski town tow, which costs him about one thousand dollars to install three years ago. This is the first season he has made money on it, but business in increasing rapidly now. He has a small dairy, and until last year when the hurricane. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

In order to ensure free passage into the Baltic to all nations, Germany shall not erect any fortifications in the area comprised between latitudes 55° 27' N. and 54° 00' N. and longitudes 9°E 00' E. and 16°E 00' E. of the meridian of Greenwich, nor install any guns commanding the maritime routes between the North Sea and the Baltic. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Install so that the flashing reaches 12 inches above the ground and six inches down into the ground. (references)

Business

Some companies have permission to install VSATs at selected sites. (references)

Steps are being taken in Abu Dhabi to install a modern central alarm system. (references)

NATAM also plans to install updated ATC systems for Stavanger, Trondheim and Bodo airport. (references)

Children

Tunisia

Many cities, including the capital, have begun to install wheelchair access ramps on city sidewalks. (references)

Civil Liberties

Bahrain

Government approval to access satellite dishes and to import or install dishes no longer is required. (references)

Singapore

It also regulates Internet material by licensing Internet service providers who install "proxy servers" through which local users must route their Internet connections. (references)

Economic History

Croatia

Plans to install a satellite earth station have been delayed. (references)

Korea

Private traders and offer agents often hire available in-house engineers to install equipment. (references)

Vietnam

Many industrial enterprises lack resources to install their own wastewater treatment facilities. (references)

Human Rights

Russia

Internet service providers are required to install, at their own expense, a device that routes all Internet traffic to an FSB terminal. (references)

Guatemala

Negotiations continued regarding a settlement of the pending labor court charges, with intervention from the Labor Ministry and COPREDEH to install an Arbitrations Court to resolve the dispute. (references)

Political Economy

MOROCCO

Business computer resellers, and government agencies frequently install a single licensed product on multiple computers in violation of the licensing agreements. (references)

Travel

Chad

A tax on informal sector businesses, the Impot General Liberatoire (IGL) was install on January 1, 1998, assessed at 5 percent of the annual turnover. (references)

Cote D'ivoire

Côte d'Ivoire was selected as a site to be funded under the Leland initiative, a five-year USD 15 million USAID project to install full Internet connectivity in up to 20 African countries. (references)

Uk

Directors and employees of existing British subsidiaries of U.S. firms have encountered little difficulty in obtaining permission to enter and remain in the UK. Bringing the technical personnel required to install and operate a plant or business generally poses no problem, though it is necessary to establish that British subjects with the necessary qualifications are not available. (references)

Worker Rights

Lesotho

The Labor Code requires employers to provide adequate light, ventilation, and sanitary facilities for employees and to install and maintain machinery in a manner designed to minimize the risk of injury, and in practice employers generally follow these regulations. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "install": install in its resting place ♦ install oneself ♦ install sewers. Additional references.

Beginning with "install": install-and-forget, install-ations.

Ending with "install": pre-install, re-install, self-install.

Albanian

instaloj (instal, lay), vendos (arrange, be determined, Canton, choose, compose, conclude, dare, decide, determine, dispose, elect, elicit, emplace, establish, fix, house, induct, instal, 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, instal, instate, lay, lay down, locate, mislay, place, plant, pull on, put, set, settle, shut, stand, station, stick, Stow), emëroj (appoint, instal, name, nominate, rubricate), caktoj (allocate, allot, appoint, appropriate, arrange, assign, award, call, constitute, designate, detail, fix, instal, instate, intend, lay on, make, mete, name, nominate, order, put, qualify, set, tell off, zone). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نصب (constitute, nominate, put up, roguery, set up, statue, swindle), ‏قلده منصبا, ‏وضع (accentuate, affix, apply, bestow, bin, clap, conjuncture, dab, design, do, emplacement, estate, frame, job, lay, lay down, lay out, manner, outline, perch, place, placement, plant, posit, position, positioning, posture, put, put down, put up, rank, return, set, set back, situation, status, stick down, stuff, tuck, utter, writing), ‏عين (allocate, appoint, assign, assist, constitute, create, define, delimit, designate, eye, institute, make, name, ordain, peeper, poach, post, prefix, put, rescue, set smb. on smb., specify, state, succor, succour, supply, tap), ‏أجلسه, ‏ركب جهاز. (various references)

Bulgarian 

настанявам (accommodate, collocate, encamp, establish, fix up, induct, instal, place, put up, set, set up, settle, station), нагласявам (focalize, instal, orchestrate, piece together, put up, rectify, redress, set), монтирам (assemble, erect, instal, rig, rig up), инсталирам (fix, fix up, instal, put in). (various references)

Chinese 

安装 (instal, Installed, installing), 安裝 (erect, fix, installation, mount), 安設 (set up). (various references)

Czech

instalovat (rig up), uvést do úřadu (inaugurate), nastolit (establish, throne). (various references)

Danish

indrette (arrange, fix up, put in order, tidy). (various references)

Dutch

installeren, fitten (adjust, put right), aanleggen (aim, build, construct, level, take aim). (various references)

Esperanto

instali. (various references)

Finnish

asettaa virkaan, asentaa (assemble, fit, link, mount). (various references)

French

installer (induct). (various references)

German

installieren (plumbing, put in, to install), einsetzen (appoint, begin, bring into action, bring into play, come in, come on, constitute, deploy, employ, enter, enthrone, exert, fit in, gamble, implant, inaugurate, insert, inset, invest, lay on, let, let in, move in, play, ply, put away, put in, put on, reinsert, risk, send in, send on, set, set in, set up, stake, start, stow, to constitute, to enthrone, to insert, to instate, to patch, to reinsert, to set in, use), einrichten (adapt, aim, arrange, construct, equip, establish, fit out, fix, fix up, furnish, institute, locate, open, organize, reset, set, set up, start), einführen (bring in, establish, feed in, feed on, import, induct, infix, innovate, institute, introduce, introduces, launch, orientate, present, set, start, superinduce, to inaugurate, to induct, to initiate, to introduce, to spearhead, to superinduce, usher, work in), einbauen (bug, build in, fit, house, incorporate, mount, put in, recess, to build in, to mount, work in). (various references)

Greek 

εγκαθιστώ (establish, induct, instate, settle), εγκαθιδρύω (set up). (various references)

Hebrew 

לקבוע (appoint, condition, designate, determine, fix, insert, prescribe, provide), ל�"תקין (adjust, arrange, establish, fit, make ready), ל�"כ� יס לתפקי�", �"תקין. (various references)

Hungarian

létesít (activate, charter, found, instal, 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, instal, 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, instal, 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, instal, 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, instal, to equip, to furnish, to refit, to upholster, upholster), beiktat (inaugurate, induct, inset, instal, intercalate, record, register, to enrol, to enroll, to inaugurate, to induct, to put in, to reinstate). (various references)

Icelandic

innrétta (arrange, fix up, put in order, tidy). (various references)

Indonesian

menobatkan (crown, enthrone), mengukuhkan (brace, fortify, solidify, strengthen), melantik (inaugurate, induct), lantik (inaugurate someone). (various references)

Italian

installare (instal, put in, settle in, wire), insediare (establish, induct, instal, instal oneself, install oneself, seat, take office), impiantare (establish, fit, implant, instal, set up), mettere (cause, charge, get, lay down, locate, place, plant, pop, put, put down, put in, put on, set, set up, situate, stand, take, to put, tuck, wear), allineare (align, dress, embattle, fall into line, line, line up, put up, range, set up, situate). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

インスタント食�"� (incense, incentive, incentive sale, incest, insecurity, inside slider, insole, inspection, inspector, inspiration, installation, installer, 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 

インストール . (various references)

Korean 

설치하십시�" (Establish, instal). (various references)

Manx

cur stiagh (bring home, buy in, drop, embody, embrace, enclose, harvest, house, input, insert, insertion, installation, interject, interruption, intervention, lay up, pass, put in, return), cur ayns oik (installation). (various references)

Norwegian

installere, insette, innrede (arrange, fix up, put in order, tidy). (various references)

Papiamen

instalá. (various references)

Pig Latin

installay.(various references)

Portuguese

instale, instalar (erect, establish, found, hand in, instal, locate, lodge, plant, quarter, seat, settle), implantar (engraft, enplane, implant, instal, lodge), proceder � montagem de (instal), empossar (enthrone, induct, instal, institute, invest, seat, swear in), dar posse a (instal). (various references)

Romanian

instala (arrange, establish, fix, inaugurate, induct, locate, pitch, place, position, put, put in, rig up, set, settle, sink). (various references)

Russian 

устраивать (ensconce, establish, settle, sit well with), устанавливать установка (setting, setting up, setup, stating), устанавливать (ascertain, ascertained, collocate, determine, emplace, establish, fix, posit, put, puts, set, set up, slated, slates), включать (add in, comprehend, comprise, embodied, embody, embrace, gear, geared, include, including, insert, involve, key on, power on, subsume, switch in, take in, turn on), водворить, настраивать (attune, dial, set up). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

instalirati (instal), uvoditi (bring into, instal, introduce), uvesti (bring in, induct, instal, introduce, invest, lead into, show in, take into), sprovesti (carry out, carry through, conduct, convey, escort, instal, lead, put in, put through, take), provesti (carry out, guide, instal, put in, show through, spend), postaviti (appoint, designate, induct, instal, mount, pad, picket, pitch, place, plant, pose, posit, post, put, quilt, seat, set, set out, set up, situate, string), montirati (assemble, edit, instal, rig). (various references)

Spanish

instalar (establish, instal, lay, lay on, plant, put in, set up, take up). (various references)

Swedish

installera (enthrone, establish, fix, inaugurate, induct, instal, institute, invest, put in, run, seat). (various references)

Turkish

yerleştirmek (accommodate, deposit, domicil, domicile, draw out, embed, emplace, enchase, engraft, ensconce, entrench, establish, fix, indwell, ingraft, inject, lay, locate, nestle, perch, pitch, place, posit, position, post, put, put in, quarter, reset, seat, set, set up, settle, shake down, sink, site, situate, slot, spot, Square, station, Stow), monte etmek (assemble, Mount, put together, set up), kurmak (activate, base, build, build up, cog, conspire, constitute, construct, erect, establish, fix up, float, form, found, frame, ground, institute, lay, line up, organize, pitch, plant, promote, put, put together, ruminate, set, set up, start, strike up, time, weave, wind up), atamak (accredit, advance, appoint, assign, co opt, commission, constitute, coopt, create, depute, deputize, designate, elect, institute, nominate, ordain, post, prefer, station). (various references)

Ukrainian

улаштовувати (accommodate, instal, organize, put), офіційно призначати на посаду (instal). (various references)

Welsh

seddi (seat), gorseddu (enthrone, throne). (various references)

gub. (various references)

in-. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "install": installation, installations, installed, installer, installers, installing, installment, installments, installs. (additional references)

Words ending with "install": reinstall. (additional references)

Words containing "install": noninstallment, reinstallation, reinstallations, reinstalled, reinstalling, reinstalls. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Install" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ansdell, enstill, intell, intelli, Linsdall, Linsdell, Tistall. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: instal, tallis.

-2 letters: alist, anils, antis, lilts, lints, litas, nails, nills, saint, satin, slain, slant, snail, stain, stall, still, tails, tains, tills.

-3 letters: ails, ains, aits, alit, alls, alts, anil, anis, anti, ants, ills, lain, last, lati, lats, lilt, lins, lint, list, lits, nail, nill, nils, nits, sail, sain, sall, salt, sati, sial.

+1 letter: anthills, installs, lanitals, stalling, stallion, stillman.

+2 letters: allanites, allantois, flatlines, flatlings, illations, installed, installer, inthralls, landsleit, lastingly, libelants, mantillas, reinstall, saliently, scintilla, stallions, tenailles, tonsillar.

+3 letters: allantoins, allethrins, altiplanos, ballasting, balloonist, ballpoints, brilliants, cleanliest, collations, fellations, flatliners, gallivants, installers, installing, libellants, linoleates, listenable, nightfalls, pollinates, reinstalls, scintillas, sibilantly, slantingly, spallation, standstill, tailplanes, tasselling, teaselling, tillandsia, ululations.