install
To connect, set up or prepare something for use
Verb 3 meanings
To connect, set up or prepare something for use
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.”
Noun 2 meanings
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.”
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.”
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”).
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INSTALL at a glance
INSTALL has 7 letters and scores 7 points in Scrabble (I 1 + N 1 + S 1 + T 1 + A 1 + L 1 + L 1) and 10 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #5,598 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with install
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- INSTILL7
- INSTALS7
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