INSTALL meaning: Set up software or hardware

We found 35 dictionaries that define the word install:

General (25 matching dictionaries)

install: Merriam-Webster.com
install: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
install: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
install: Collins English Dictionary
install: Vocabulary.com
Install, install: Wordnik
install: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
install: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
install: Infoplease Dictionary
Install, install: Dictionary.com
install: Online Etymology Dictionary
install: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
INSTALL (CONFIG.SYS directive), Install (Unix), Install: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Install: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
install: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
install: Rhymezone
install: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
install: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
install: Free Dictionary
install: Mnemonic Dictionary
install: Dictionary/thesaurus
install: Wiktionary
install: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.

Business (2 matching dictionaries)

install: Legal dictionary
BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)

install: Netlingo
install: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
Install: Tech Terms Computer Dictionary
install: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)

Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
install: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

install: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)

AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ verb:  (transitive) To connect, set up or prepare something for use
▸ verb:  (transitive, computing) To transfer software onto a device's permanent storage and put it in a state where it is ready to be run when needed, usually decompressing it if necessary and performing any necessary pre-first-run configuration.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To admit formally into an office, rank or position.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To establish or settle in.
▸ noun:  (computing) Installer. A software utility that installs an application.
▸ noun:  (informal) An installation. (Usage originated as a truncated form of the word installation.)

Similar:

instal, establish, put in, set up, configure, stage, plant, position, prepare, stell, more...

Opposite:

uninstall, remove, dismantle, disassemble, extract

Types:

upgrade, clean install, custom install, in-place upgrade, more...

Phrases:

install program, clean install, re install, Zero Install, Nullsoft Scriptable Install System, more...

Adjectives:

click, typical, clean, prompt, initial, module, openlde

Colors:

gray, blue, green, orange, yellow, more...

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