Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To connect or set in position and prepare for use: installed the new furnace; installed software on my computer.
- v. To induct into an office, rank, or position: a ceremony to install the new governor.
- v. To settle in an indicated place or condition; establish: installed myself in the spare room.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To place in a seat; give a place to.
- To set, place, or instate in an office, rank, or order; invest with any charge, office, or rank with the customary ceremonies.
- To place in position for service or use.
Wiktionary
- v. transitive To connect, set up or prepare something for use
- v. transitive To admit formally into an office, rank or position.
- v. transitive To establish or settle in.
- n. informal Installation. (Usage originated as a truncated form of word installation.)
- n. computing (jargon): A computer software utility that is run to install a software application. Also used attributively.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To set in a seat; to give a place to; establish (one) in a place.
- v. To place in an office, rank, or order; to invest with any charge by the usual ceremonies; to instate; to induct
WordNet 3.0
- v. set up for use
- v. place.
- v. put into an office or a position
Etymologies
- From Middle English installen, from Medieval Latin installō ("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 *stelǝ-, *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. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English installen, to place in office, from Old French installer, from Medieval Latin īnstallāre : Latin in-, in; + stallum, stall, place. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“To generate a log file, you will need to use msiexec from a command prompt to install the MSI, for example msiexec / i AspNetMVC1-RC2. msi / l*v. \install.log”
“I restarted many times, since then I did an install& archive with the 10.2 install disc which I own. .all went well to the login screen I entered my login & password .. the screen shuddered and shuddered ..”
“I have my Win install which is my main and Linux, which is my work.”
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“The install is also 30MBs-ish, so it's a bit big for those (like me) who have a lot of apps on your phone.”
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“(Thanks to the author of this article for helping me out with my Snow Leopard install from a FireWire drive.)”
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“I would love to be able to purchase an OS able to install from a USB flash drive!”
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“The install is painless and you rarely need to mess with text files any longer, so pretty much anybody could set it up in a matter of minutes.”
“There will be some tweaks made so a fresh install is logical.”
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“My Vista install is rock solid and full of feature and security enhancements compared to XP. mahumphrey atomicrabbit”
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“When I have any trouble with Ubuntu, the XP install is right there, and that is nice in the beginning.”
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