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install

verb
/ɪnˈstɔːl/UK/ɪnˈstɔl/US/ɪnˈstɒl/CA/ɪnˈstoːl/

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”), German einstellen (“to set, adjust, position”), Dutch aanstellen (“to appoint, commission, institute”), Dutch instellen (“to set up, establish”). More at in, stall.

  1. derived from *stel-✻
  2. derived from *stallaz✻ — “place, position”
  3. derived from *stall✻
  4. derived from īnstallō — “to install, put in place, establish”
  5. derived from installer
  6. inherited from installen

Definitions

  1. To connect, set up or prepare something for use

    • Each TBM installs two-metre-wide rings made up of seven precast concrete segments produced on-site. Each ring takes approximately 45 minutes to one hour to install.

  2. To admit formally into an office, rank or position.

    • He was installed as Chancellor of the University.
    • My husband rented a small, comfortable house, and I was installed as its mistress.

  3. To establish or settle in.

    • I installed myself in my usual chair by the fire.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. An installation

      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.

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Derived

autoinstall, coinstall, deinstall, installability, installable, installfest, misinstall, pay-per-install, preinstall, reinstall, uninstalled

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at install. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at install. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at install

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA