Install
[ɪn'stɔl]
Definition
(verb.) set up for use; 'install the washer and dryer'; 'We put in a new sink'.
(verb.) place; 'Her manager had set her up at the Ritz'.
(verb.) put into an office or a position; 'the new president was installed immediately after the election'.
Typist: Robinson--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To set in a seat; to give a place to; establish (one) in a place.
(v. t.) 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.
Typist: Sophie
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Inaugurate, induct, introduce into office.
Typed by Floyd
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Establish, institute, induct, invest, inaugurate, {invest_with_office}
ANT:Deprive, disinstall, strip, degrade, disinvest, eject
Inputed by Erma
Definition
v.t. to place in a seat: to place in an office or order: to invest with any charge or office with the customary ceremonies.—ns. Installā′tion the act of installing or placing in an office with ceremonies: a placing in position for use also a general term for the complete mechanical apparatus for electric lighting &c.; Instal′ment the act of installing: one of the parts of a sum paid at various times: that which is produced at stated periods.
Editor: Upton
Examples
- The limits imposed practically were such as to require that the system should not cost more than a cable road to install. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Jehl, Hipple, and Force assisted Mr. Batchelor to install the lamp-works of the French Edison Company at Ivry-sur-Seine. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- About this time I invented a district messenger call-box system, and organized a company called the Domestic Telegraph Company, and started in to install the system in New York. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The meter was cheap to manufacture and install, and not at all liable to get out of order. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Mrs Dengelton felt sure that in the end she would obtain her heart's desire, and install Eunice as mistress of Roylands Grange. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Old plants are lengthening their kilns wherever practicable, and no wide-awake manufacturer building a modern plant could afford to install other than these long kilns. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- When he went to his shack he found a native cook installed there, and had to submit to the hospitality of his hosts. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- In the rendering of those little services, and in the manner of their acceptance, the trooper has become installed as necessary to him. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The first electric railway in America was installed at Baltimore in 1885, and ran to Hampden, a distance of two miles. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- A kind hand took from her her shawl and bonnet, and installed her in the most comfortable seat near the fire. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It was already dark when they were conducted into the machine-shop, where we had several platinum lamps installed in series. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The street conductors were of the overhead pole-line construction, and were installed by the construction company that had been organized by Edison to build and equip central stations. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- On this bridge is located a gasoline pump, from which each tank receives one gallon of gasoline before it is installed in the car. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This is usually done by installing at each station a local battery and a very delicate and sensitive electromagnet called the _relay_. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- No; he said he had known you long, and that he could take the liberty of installing himself here till you returned. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
Editor: Lorna