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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
install
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
install a camera (=in a building or public place, for security)
▪ Cameras have been installed on almost every street corner.
install a machine (=put it somewhere and connect it so it can be used)
▪ 300 new machines have been installed across the country.
install a system (=put it into a building)
▪ Our security system is simple to install.
install equipment
▪ We are installing new computerized equipment in place of the old machines.
load/install a program (=put it on your computer)
▪ Is that program installed on your computer?
load/install software
▪ Don't let your kids load pirated games software onto your machine.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
already
▪ Several petrol stations and a building society in the town have already installed the equipment.
▪ They had already installed as president Guillermo Endara, who had been the apparent winner of the May elections.
▪ Shaw have already installed an ex-Stoddard one-metre-wide Bonded Machine for development work.
▪ Farmplan is now offering farmers the complete package: computers with internet access already installed.
▪ To see what plug-ins are already installed in Netscape, choose About Plug-ins from the Help menu.
▪ Jamieson had already installed Brian in the visitor's chair.
■ NOUN
alarm
▪ Will the Government look into a way to encourage car manufacturers to install alarm systems as standard equipment?
▪ The thing is, hardly anybody installs a silent alarm these days, except as a supplementary sys-tem.
cable
▪ The company has put on hold plans to install cable networks in Los Angeles and Orange County.
camera
▪ Mitra installed a video camera on a tree nearby to watch over the kiosk and observe what the children did.
▪ I applaud the decision of my local council to install cameras around the centre.
company
▪ So, to meet the demands of the diesel boom, oil companies have installed diesel pumps alongside those for petrol.
▪ The phone company has been installing fiber here since the mid- 1980s.
▪ Many customers will have to foot the bill for water meters, which most companies will eventually install.
▪ They somehow got the phone company to install three phone lines to their outdoor base in two days.
▪ Instead, the company suggests installing a £30,000 spray system at the terminal to dampen coal.
computer
▪ A major advantage of both MID-TEL and MID-CRED is that neither system requires customers to install expensive computer equipment.
▪ That said, let's look at what's installed on your computer that may be interfering with your connection.
▪ They've even installed closed-circuit television and computers so that you can see it coming round corners.
▪ For the plan to work, counties would have to install sophisticated and costly computer systems.
Computer service engineer - installing and maintaining computer systems and carrying out repairs when breakdowns occur.
▪ A student-run electronics service installs and maintains computer and telephone equipment in the building.
▪ Many stores now have popular programs installed on computers, where parents can try them before buying.
control
▪ The factories had previously been ordered to install pollution control equipment but had failed to respond.
▪ In an effort to install management control, Gutfreund created a wealth of new titles.
▪ And it has installed control software to ensure that engineers can be on site in four hours if necessary.
device
▪ Also install an anti-lift device to stop a thief simply lifting the door off its rail.
▪ It installed the device in 1994 in response to a complaint by a citizen.
▪ Eventually, officials plan to install the devices, which retail for $ 116, 000 apiece, throughout the 33-prison system.
driver
▪ When you install a PostScript driver into any software package the output is similar to the above.
engine
▪ Whitney, a unit of United Technologies Corp., will install engines for the 747s.
equipment
▪ Several petrol stations and a building society in the town have already installed the equipment.
▪ His company has a great racket -- installing security equipment in homes to guard against all burglars, except for themselves.
▪ A major advantage of both MID-TEL and MID-CRED is that neither system requires customers to install expensive computer equipment.
▪ Private investigators charge as much as $ 500 to install the equipment and $ 200 a day to run it.
▪ The factories had previously been ordered to install pollution control equipment but had failed to respond.
▪ These are people who actually install telephones, service equipment, work on the network, and are in customer contact positions.
▪ One of the problems Steve has encountered is finding the exact locations of where some of the equipment was installed.
▪ Electrical systems had to be updated to install all the new equipment, which also includes a couple of freezers.
government
▪ Such was the power of the High Command that they were able to install a parliamentary government by a few sharp memoranda.
▪ To achieve the desired equality of conditions, a powerful government must be installed.
heating
▪ If installing new central heating, fit an energy-efficient gas-condensing boiler.
▪ In fact, in this present market, the question isn't can you afford to install gas central heating.
▪ In a couple of places we've installed central heating.
line
▪ These devices are not installed across the entire line, but only on certain machines.
▪ Those funds will be used to install sewer and water lines, upgrade Houghton Road, and build other infrastructure improvements.
▪ To prevent that, his practice installed a new telephone line and instituted a policy of returning calls within five minutes.
▪ They somehow got the phone company to install three phone lines to their outdoor base in two days.
lines
▪ Those funds will be used to install sewer and water lines, upgrade Houghton Road, and build other infrastructure improvements.
▪ They somehow got the phone company to install three phone lines to their outdoor base in two days.
machine
▪ Sequent Computer Systems Inc has a total installed base of 6,000 machines after eight or nine years in business.
▪ Some enterprising yards install big washing machines and then offer a horse laundry service, usually charging about £5 per rug.
▪ Some of the banks have now installed machines which not only dispense cash but also accept payments.
▪ Nobody at the theatre talks about installing a machine.
network
▪ The company has put on hold plans to install cable networks in Los Angeles and Orange County.
▪ On their end, customers will have to install network interface cards in their computers and buy or rent special cable modems.
plan
▪ The company has put on hold plans to install cable networks in Los Angeles and Orange County.
plant
▪ The photograph shows the extent of the planting with Debbie installing a new plant into the display.
▪ He hopes to install an adobe-making plant at his Redford ranch, using a commercial concrete truck as his mixer.
▪ Later on in the 1920s the Bethell family installed their own plant for providing electricity.
▪ The islands are also installing a desalination plant to produce 50,000 gallons of water a year.
▪ Winter is the ideal time to install it, as plants are dormant.
▪ A person who erects or installs such plant must ensure that the installation is not unsafe or a risk to health.
power
▪ By the 1890s, they had installed steam power in order to boost the power from the Frome.
program
▪ But whichever way you install these programs into Windows, you can adjust the name or icon using File Properties.
software
▪ There's no need in any case to install new software.
▪ When you install the software, the drive is automatically recognized and configured.
▪ Business Superstore will install the software, offer training and supply a full technical back-up.
▪ PalmPilots can install software only by linking to a personal computer.
▪ By simply placing this in the ink cartridge bay and installing the software provided, your printer is converted into a scanner.
▪ Better yet, purchase and install a good anti-virus software program.
▪ Don't believe any provider that insists you need to install their software.
▪ To get into Worlds Away, you must install software.
system
▪ This is why Kenneth Baker has promised longer franchises for operators prepared to install systems that rely on switched-star technology.
▪ And at least two more builders are planning to install the system in model homes in Houston and San Antonio.
▪ Ultimate has installed about 50 systems to date in the Commonwealth of Independent States.
▪ Instead, the company suggests installing a £30,000 spray system at the terminal to dampen coal.
▪ Full gas fired central heating is installed and the system has been fully overhauled within the last twelve months.
▪ Telephones can be installed, emergency call-card systems operated and local neighbourly help recruited to reduce the isolation of many old people.
technology
▪ Now farmers talk about installing new technology such as drip irrigation systems.
telephone
▪ Many people install a telephone in the hall.
▪ These are people who actually install telephones, service equipment, work on the network, and are in customer contact positions.
▪ To prevent that, his practice installed a new telephone line and instituted a policy of returning calls within five minutes.
unit
▪ Already equipment and furniture were being delivered from central stores and technicians were installing a communications unit.
▪ Combined Power Systems, in conjunction with Norweb, installs the units and maintains them.
water
▪ We were looked at with the same sense of distrust that must have greeted the first plumber who installed running water there.
▪ Beneath each machine a wrought-iron pan was installed to collect the water, which contained carbonate of soda to prevent rust.
▪ With time, the government grants a DeFacto recognition by installing running water, electricity, and by paving the roads.
▪ Within the lowest of its three chambers would be installed all the water pipes, sewers, and power lines.
▪ The second is to install a water softener into the cold water supply.
▪ Those funds will be used to install sewer and water lines, upgrade Houghton Road, and build other infrastructure improvements.
▪ This period can be reduced if you are allowed to install the water meter yourself.
window
▪ Maxwell spent £350,000 on the house, installing a stained glass window and glitzy Fifties Neptune statue in the hall.
■ VERB
design
▪ A second, designed to be installed above a kitchen counter, would be a television and electronic recipe holder.
▪ Mark designed and installed improvements to the masts and sails.
require
▪ A major advantage of both MID-TEL and MID-CRED is that neither system requires customers to install expensive computer equipment.
▪ But government safety regulators never required automakers to install them.
▪ In its place, service stations were to be required to install vapour traps directly on to petrol pumps.
▪ Clause 70 of the previous Bill required the undertakers to install monitoring apparatus to monitor water level and quality for infectious diseases.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Crime has dropped since the video cameras were installed in the town centre.
▪ Lights were installed under the upper cabinets to illuminate the counter tops.
▪ The company is installing a new computer system.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Install

Install \In*stall"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Installed; p. pr. & vb. n. Installing.] [F. installer, LL. installare, fr. pref. in- in + OHG. stal a place, stall, G. stall, akin to E. stall: cf. It. installare. See Stall.] [Written also instal.]

  1. To set in a seat; to give a place to; establish (one) in a place.

    She installed her guest hospitably by the fireside.
    --Sir W. Scott.

  2. 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.
    --Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
install

early 15c., "place in (ecclesiastical) office by seating in an official stall," from Medieval Latin installare, from Latin in- "in" (see in- (2)) + Medieval Latin stallum "stall," from a Germanic source (compare Old High German stal "standing place;" see stall (n.1)). Related: Installed; installing.

Wiktionary
install

n. 1 (context informal English) Installation. (Usage originated as a truncated form of the word installation.) 2 (context computing English) (sense: jargon) A computer software utility that is run to install a software application. Also used attributively. vb. (context transitive English) To connect, set up or prepare something for use.

WordNet
install
  1. v. set up for use; "install the washer and dryer"; "We put in a new sink" [syn: instal, put in, set up]

  2. put into an office or a position; "the new president was installed immediately after the election"

  3. place; "Her manager had set her up at the Ritz" [syn: instal, set up, establish]

Wikipedia
Install (Unix)

The install command is a Unix program used to copy files and set file permissions. Some implementations offer to invoke [[strip (Unix)|strip]] while installing executable files.

Usage examples of "install".

The room cleared except for Evan and Zane, as the crew went back to their duties, installing the new actuator and preparing for their bizarre errand.

Reform Bill was introduced, was defeated by the Adullamites, and the Derby-Disraeli ministry was installed.

It was something like an airlock, and it had been installed when the pollution and aeroplankton had gotten out of hand some time ago.

Boeing or Airbus may or may not install these items for the airline, depending on the contract.

The amebic filtration system you installed in the drinking water conduits has kept us all safe.

Milton, Andy, with his mother and sister, was installed in a comfortable cottage.

All that, before a bottle of Chablis smoothed their way for the lobster, butter running down his thumb onto the white tablecloth, before the light and the aerator were installed and the plants submerged in the tank, before another delivery brought more bills and anonymous personalized invitations and a script indecently titled from a playwriting hopeful thirsting for production and before another rushed a lone angelfish in a plasticized transparency to take up residence among the water sprite and Ludwigia and wavering fronds of Spatterdock enveloped in silence and the eerie illumination neither day nor night, spooky was the word for it as his hand glided over her breasts, now could he feel it?

APRON OVER AN OLD SHIRT AND washed-out chinos, James Jesus Angleton was sweeping the aisles of the greenhouse he had recently installed in the back yard of his suburban Arlington house, across the Potomac from the District of Columbia and the Pickle Factory on the Reflecting Pool.

According to the analyst, there was no indication that there were antiair defenses in place, and no indication that they would be installed.

Alessandra wanted to know if the residents had renounced their antihuman stance now the wormhole detector station had been forcibly installed in the Regent mountains above the town.

Sverdlov had simply installed a framework to support his refashioned accelerator rings, antimagnetic shielding circuits, and incidental wires, tubes, grids, capacitors, transformers.

Meanwhile, Castle launched a frontal assault on the water problem by cracking down on industrial pollution, enforcing compliance with laws already on the books to eliminate poisonous industrial discharges into rivers and streams, and successfully lobbying for laws that gave tax credits to factories that installed antipollution and water-recycling equipment.

But Nadar had decreed that both balloons should depart together, and had installed an extra windlass of rope for that purpose, reasoning that a dual launch would confuse and make even more ineffectual the rifle fire from the enemy lines.

Leaving only Aleksandr Banat, who insisted that a circus needed a watchman even when it was installed in a royal park, the rest of the company rode in the wagons with the servants back to the palace and were shown, according to their station, to either dining room or kitchen.

Now at last it seemed as if Bithynia might fall into his grasp, for a year before, Socrates had come bleating to beg for asylum in Pontus, and had turned himself so thoroughly into a Mithridatic creature that the King decided he might safely be installed upon the Bithynian throne as a measure preliminary to outright invasion.