Installed Install ɪnˈstɔːl Equipment System Make Position Verb

• they're planning to install a new drainage system.
• make sure the equipment is properly installed.
• a hidden camera had been installed in the room.
• to install software/an app

install

Verb Forms

1. to fix equipment or furniture into position so that it can be used
• They're planning to install a new drainage system.
• Make sure the equipment is properly installed.
• A hidden camera had been installed in the room.

Extra Examples

• A professionally installed alarm will cost from about £500.
• An anti-theft device is installed in the vehicle.
• The loft ladder is easily installed.
• The switches are cheap to buy and easy to install.
• They estimate that four out of five child car seats are installed improperly.
• Water softening units can be permanently installed into the plumbing system.
• a recently installed swimming pool
• The council failed to install pollution-monitoring equipment at the site.
2. to put a new program onto a computer
• to install software/an app
• Do not download and install programs from websites that you are unfamiliar with.
• Be selective about the apps you install on your device.
3. to put somebody in a new position of authority, often with an official ceremony
• He was installed as President last May.
• She was recently installed as president of the National Medical Association.
4. to make somebody/yourself comfortable in a particular place or position
• We installed ourselves in the front row.
• She saw her guests safely installed in their rooms and then went downstairs.

Word Origin

• late Middle English (in sense (3)): from medieval Latin installare, from in- ‘into’ + stallum ‘place, stall’. Sense (1) dates from the mid 19th cent.