institute
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[edit] Etymology
From Middle English, from Latin īnstitūtus, past participle of īnstituō (“I set up, place upon, purpose, begin, institute”), from in (“in, on”) + statuō (“set up, establish”).
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[edit] Noun
Wikipedia institute (plural institutes)
- An organization founded to promote a cause
- I work in a medical research institute.
- An institution of learning; a college, especially for technical subjects
- The building housing such an institution
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organization founded to promote a cause
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college
building
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[edit] Verb
institute (third-person singular simple present institutes, present participle instituting, simple past and past participle instituted)
- (transitive) to begin or initiate something
- He instituted the new policy of having children walk through a metal detector to enter school.
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to begin or initiate something
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- institute in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- institute in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- institute at OneLook Dictionary Search
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[edit] Participle
institūte
- vocative masculine singular of institūtus
