install

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   set up for use

   install the washer and dryer

2. 2
   verb

   put into an office or a position

   the new president was installed immediately after the election

3. 3
   verb

   To connect, set up or prepare something for use

   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."

4. 4
   verb

   To admit formally into an office, rank or position.

   He was installed as Chancellor of the University.

5. 5
   verb

   To establish or settle in.

   I installed myself in my usual chair by the fire.

6. 6
   noun

   An installation: the process of installing a software application.

   The install takes a long time, but you can run it in the background while working on other things.

7. 7
   noun

   An installation: a software application that has been installed.

   I've customized my local install; the out-of-the-box version looks a bit different.

8. 8
   verb

   place

Etymology

From Middle English installen, from Old French installer, from Medieval Latin īnstallō (“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 *stel-, *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”), Germa…