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verb

Install v. t. (past & past part. installed; pres. part. installing) (Written also instal)

To set in a seat; to give a place to; establish (one) in a place. "She installed her guest hospitably by the fireside."

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. "Unworthily Thou wast installed in that high degree."

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Etymology of 'Install'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Install" Quotes from Famous Books

... the discussion. Yes, he could put up something big enough for everything the girls would need to install, and soundproof it. Concrete, he decided; they'd have to wait till he got the water line down and ...

— Naudsonce • H. Beam Piper

... scoundrel, you want me to install a telephone in this shack for the joy and delight of you two electricians who can't seem to do it for yourselves," said Mr. ...

— Ted and the Telephone • Sara Ware Bassett

... sure he wanted to try out the tricks of the chair. "I don't know if I have time right now," he said. Mr. Bullfinch did not look like the sort of man who would install an electric chair, the kind they have in penitentiaries, in his house and begin to execute his neighbors the first day he moved in. Still, better be safe than ...

— Jerry's Charge Account • Hazel Hutchins Wilson

... earth. The larva comes from elsewhere; doubtless from a considerable distance. It is a vagabond, roaming from one root to another and implanting its rostrum. When it moves, either to flee from the upper layers of the soil, which in winter become too cold, or to install itself upon a more juicy root, it makes a road by rejecting behind it the material broken up by the teeth of its picks. That this is ...

— Social Life in the Insect World • J. H. Fabre

... their new place bright and shiny before helping her husband install the furniture. She loved the furniture, polishing it and becoming almost heart-broken at the slightest scratch. Any time she knocked into the furniture while cleaning she would stop with a sudden shock as though she had ...

— L'Assommoir • Emile Zola

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