install

See also: inställ

English

Alternative forms

• enstall (rare, obsolete)
• instal (less common spelling)

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English installen, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French installer, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  installō (“to install, put in place, establish”), from in- + stallum (“stall”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  *stall (“stall, position, place”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *stallaz (“place, position”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈstɔːl/
• Rhymes: -ɔːl
• Hyphenation: in‧stall

Verb

install (third-person singular simple present installs, present participle installing, simple past and past participle installed)

1. (transitive) To connect, set up or prepare something for use.
   • 2013 June 21, Chico Harlan, “Japan pockets the subsidy …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 30:

     Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."

   I haven't installed the new operating system yet because of all the bugs.

2. (transitive) To admit formally into an office, rank or position.

   He was installed as Chancellor of the University.

3. (transitive) To establish or settle in.

   I installed myself in my usual chair by the fire.

Antonyms

• uninstall

Related terms

• installation
• installer
• instalment / installment

Translations

set something up for use

• Arabic: رَكَّبَ (ar) (rakkaba)
• Armenian: տեղադրել (hy) (teġadrel)
• Azerbaijani: quraşdırmaq (az)
• Bulgarian: монтирам (bg) (montiram), инсталирам (bg) (instaliram)
• Catalan: instal·lar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 安裝／安装 (zh) (ānzhuāng), 安装 (zh) (ānzhuāng)

• Czech: instalovat (cs)
• Dutch: installeren (nl), aansluiten (nl), opzetten (nl)
• Esperanto: instali (eo)
• Finnish: asentaa (fi)
• French: installer (fr)
• Galician: instalar (gl)
• Georgian: დაყენება (daq̇eneba), ინსტალირება (insṭalireba), მოწყობა (moc̣q̇oba), დამონტაჟება (damonṭažeba), მოთავსება (motavseba), აწყობა (ac̣q̇oba), დადგმა (dadgma), გაყვანა (gaq̇vana)
• German: installieren (de)
• Hebrew: התקין (hitkín)
• Indonesian: memasang (id)
• Italian: installare (it)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 導入する (ja) (どうにゅうする, dōnyū surú), インストールする (insutōru surú)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 설치하다 (ko) (seolchihada), 깔다 (ko) (kkalda)
• Luxembourgish: instaléieren
• Maori: whakanoho, tāuta (computer programmes)
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norman: înstâller
• Polish: instalować (pl) impf, zainstalować (pl) pf
• Portuguese: instalar (pt)
• Russian: устана́вливать (ru) impf (ustanávlivatʹ), установи́ть (ru) pf (ustanovítʹ), инсталли́ровать (ru) impf or pf (installírovatʹ), монти́ровать (ru) (montírovatʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: instalirati (sh)
• Spanish: instalar (es)
• Swedish: installera (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkmen: gurnamak
• Vietnamese: cài đặt (vi)

admit formally into a position

• Bulgarian: въвеждам в длъжност (vǎveždam v dlǎžnost)
• Swedish: installera (sv)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

establish or settle in

• Bulgarian: устройвам (bg) (ustrojvam), намествам (bg) (namestvam)
• Catalan: instal·lar (ca)
• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} zich installeren (nl)
• Maori: whakanoho
• Norman: ^{(please verify)} s'enchîtrer (Jersey)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: instalar (pt)
• Russian: помеща́ть (ru) impf (pomeščátʹ), помести́ть (ru) pf (pomestítʹ)
• Swedish: installera (sv)

Noun

install (plural installs)

1. (computing) Installer. A software utility that installs an application.

   After inserting the disk, you need to run the install.

2. (informal) An installation. (Usage originated as a truncated form of the word installation.)

Anagrams

• Antills