install
verb/ɪnˈstɔːl/
/ɪnˈstɔːl/
(also British English, less frequent instal)
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they install | /ɪnˈstɔːl/ /ɪnˈstɔːl/ |
| he / she / it installs | /ɪnˈstɔːlz/ /ɪnˈstɔːlz/ |
| past simple installed | /ɪnˈstɔːld/ /ɪnˈstɔːld/ |
| past participle installed | /ɪnˈstɔːld/ /ɪnˈstɔːld/ |
| -ing form installing | /ɪnˈstɔːlɪŋ/ /ɪnˈstɔːlɪŋ/ |
- install something to fix equipment or furniture into position so that it can be used
- They're planning to install a new drainage system.
- Make sure the equipment is properly installed.
- A hidden camera had been installed in the room.
Extra Examples- A professionally installed alarm will cost from about £500.
- An anti-theft device is installed in the vehicle.
- The loft ladder is easily installed.
- The switches are cheap to buy and easy to install.
- They estimate that four out of five child car seats are installed improperly.
- Water softening units can be permanently installed into the plumbing system.
- a recently installed swimming pool
- The council failed to install pollution-monitoring equipment at the site.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- correctly
- properly
- safely
- …
- be easy to
- be simple to
- in
- on
- be installed as CEO, leader, president etc.
- newly installed
- recently installed
- …
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- install something to put a new program onto a computer
- to install software/an app
- Do not download and install programs from websites that you are unfamiliar with.
- install something on something Be selective about the apps you install on your device.
WordfinderTopics Computersb2Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- correctly
- properly
- safely
- …
- be easy to
- be simple to
- in
- on
- be installed as CEO, leader, president etc.
- newly installed
- recently installed
- …
- install somebody (as something) to put somebody in a new position of authority, often with an official ceremony
- He was installed as President last May.
- She was recently installed as president of the National Medical Association.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- correctly
- properly
- safely
- …
- be easy to
- be simple to
- in
- on
- be installed as CEO, leader, president etc.
- newly installed
- recently installed
- …
- install somebody/yourself (+ adv./prep.) to make somebody/yourself comfortable in a particular place or position
- We installed ourselves in the front row.
- She saw her guests safely installed in their rooms and then went downstairs.
Word Originlate Middle English (in sense (3)): from medieval Latin installare, from in- ‘into’ + stallum ‘place, stall’. Sense (1) dates from the mid 19th cent.
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