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Webster 1913 Edition

Install

In-stall′

,
Verb.
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
.]
1.
To set in a seat; to give a place to; establish (one) in a place.
She
installed
her guest hospitably by the fireside.
Sir W. Scott.
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.
Unworthily
Thou wast
installed
in that high degree.
Shakespeare

Webster 1828 Edition

Install

INSTALL'

,
Verb.
T.
[Gr. to send.] To set, place or instate, in an office, rank or order; to invest with any charge, office or rank, with the customary ceremonies. To install a clergyman or minister of the gospel, is to place one who has been previously ordained, over a particular church and congregation, or to invest an ordained minister with a particular pastoral charge; in England, to induct a dean, prebendary or other ecclesiastical dignitary into possession of the church to which he belongs.

Definition 2024

install

install

See also: inställ

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Noun

install ‎(plural installs)

  1. (computing) (jargon): A computer software utility that is run to install a software application. Also used attributively.
    After inserting the disk, you need to run the install.
    But I can't find the install disk.
  2. (informal) an installation. (Usage originated as a truncated form of the word installation.)

Verb

install ‎(third-person singular simple present installs, present participle installing, simple past and past participle installed)

  1. (transitive) To connect, set up or prepare something for use.
    • 2013 June 21, Chico Harlan, “Japan pockets the subsidy …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 30:
      Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."
    I haven't installed the new operating system yet because of all the bugs.‎
  2. (transitive) To admit formally into an office, rank or position.
    He was installed as Chancellor of the University.‎
  3. (transitive) To establish or settle in.
    I installed myself in my usual chair by the fire.‎

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Etymology

From Middle English installen, from Old French installer, from Medieval Latin installō ‎(“to install, put in place, establish”), from in- + stallum ‎(“stall”), from Frankish *stall ‎(“stall, position, place”), from Proto-Germanic *stallaz ‎(“place, position”), from Proto-Indo-European *stelǝ-, *stAlǝn-, *stAlǝm- ‎(“stem, trunk”). Cognate with Old High German stal ‎(“location, stall”), Old English steall ‎(“position, stall”), Old English onstellan ‎(“to institute, create, originate, establish, give the example of”), Middle High German anstalt ‎(“institute”), German anstellen ‎(“to conduct, employ”), German einstellen ‎(“to set, adjust, position”), Dutch aanstellen ‎(“to appoint, commission, institute”), Dutch instellen ‎(“to set up, establish”). More at in, stall.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɪnˈstɔːl/
  • Hyphenation: in‧stall

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