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/ɪnstˈɔlɪŋ/ Listen

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."

noun

installing n.

The act of installing something (as equipment).

Synonyms: installation, setting up.

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Etymology of 'Installing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Installing" Quotes from Famous Books

... produce considerable arsenic. Many other metallic ores contain notable amounts of arsenic, which are at present allowed to escape through smelter flues, but which could be recovered under market conditions which would repay the cost of installing the necessary apparatus. ...

— The Economic Aspect of Geology • C. K. Leith

... installing efficient life-saving appliances, if the great steamship lines should come to an agreement to fix a maximum speed for their vessels of various classes and fix their dates and hours of steaming so that they would cross the ocean in pairs within supporting distances of each other, ...

— Sinking of the Titanic - and Great Sea Disasters • Various

... Ascanio loved a very handsome girl, who returned his passion. One day she gave her mother the slip, and came to see Ascanio at night. Finding that she would not take her leave, and being driven to his wits' ends to conceal her, like a person of resources, he hit at last upon the plan of installing her inside the statue. There, in the head itself, he made her up a place to sleep in; this lodging she occupied some time, and he used to bring her forth at whiles with secrecy at night. I meanwhile having brought this part of the Colossus almost to completion, left ...

— The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini • Benvenuto Cellini

... it would be if the Isthmus of Panama should come to be to us what the Isthmus of Corinth was to the Greeks! May God g that some day we may have the happiness of installing there an august congress of the representatives of the republics, kingdoms and empires, to discuss and study the high interests of peace and war with the nations of the other three parts of the world! This kind of cooperation ...

— Simon Bolivar, the Liberator • Guillermo A. Sherwell

... capacity, and the newly appointed purchasing agent was buying cars and locomotives right and left. Also, to keep pace with the ever-increasing procession of trains, a doubled construction force wrought night and day installing new side tracks ...

— The Grafters • Francis Lynde

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