install
/ɪnˈstɔl/ verb B1- To connect, set up or prepare something for use
- To transfer software onto a device's permanent storage and put it in a state where it is ready to be run when needed, usually decompressing it if necessary and performing any necessary pre-first-run configuration. · I haven't installed the new operating system yet because of all the bugs.
- To admit formally into an office, rank or position. · He was installed as Chancellor of the University.
- To establish or settle in. · I installed myself in my usual chair by the fire.
He/she/it installs · Past installed · Past participle installed · -ing form installing
Verb forms
- Base form
- install
- He/she/it
- installs
- Past
- installed
- Past participle
- installed
- -ing form
- installing
From the library
You should install yourself here, and cheer my solitude.
“Believe me, madame, I feel most grateful for your kindness, but I got out of my travelling carriage at your door this morning, and I am ignorant how I am installed in Paris, which I scarcely know; this is but a trifling inquietude, I know, but one that may be appreciated.”
“They are in the hands of the concierge, who takes care of the house, but here is the order I have given him to install the count in his new possessions.”
The servants passed gayly along the fine courtyard; some, belonging to the kitchens, gliding down the stairs, restored but the previous day, as if they had always inhabited the house; others filling the coach-houses, where the equipages, encased and numbered, appeared to have been installed for the last fifty years; and in the stables the horses replied with neighs to the grooms, who spoke to them with much more respect than many servants pay their masters.
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