Installed ɪnˈstɔːl Recently Install System Installing Word Position

• he's getting a phone installed tomorrow.
• the hotel chain has recently installed a new booking system.
• i'll need some help installing the software.
• have you got word installed on your computer?

install

1. to fix equipment or furniture into position so that it can be used
• He's getting a phone installed tomorrow.
• The hotel chain has recently installed a new booking system.
2. to put a new program onto a computer
• I'll need some help installing the software.
• Have you got Word installed on your computer?
3. to put somebody in a new position of authority, often with an official ceremony
• He was installed as President last May.
4. to make somebody/yourself comfortable in a particular place or position
• We installed ourselves in the front row.

Extra Examples

• A professionally installed alarm will cost from about £500.
• An anti-theft device is installed in the vehicle.
• He was recently installed as president of the National Medical Association.
• Linux can be installed on most PCs or Macs.
• Make sure the equipment is properly installed.
• She saw her guests safely installed in their rooms and then went downstairs.
• 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

Verb Forms

• present simple I / you / we / they install
• he / she / it installs
• past simple installed
• past participle installed
• -ing form installing

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.