| 单词 | install |
| 释义 | install (once / 345 pages) 1v 2v Use the verb install to mean "set up" or "put in place." You can install new software on your computer, or even install new officers to your honor society. The word install traces back to the Latin word installare, from in-, meaning “into,” and stallum, meaning “place” or “stall.” Install has to do with putting someone or something in a chosen place. For example, you might install a solar panel on your roof, install your best friend in a cushy job at your company, or install yourself at the best table in your favorite restaurant. WORD FAMILYinstall: installation, installed, installment, installs, reinstall+/installation: installations/installment: installments/reinstall: reinstalled, reinstalling USAGE EXAMPLESDear Heloise: I am a handyman, and each year I install and remove dozens of window air conditioners. Washington Post(Dec 22, 2016) N.F.L. installs replay policy that mandates official review of every gain of more than 2 yards. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) The sensors, which were installed in the 1990s, monitor fast-moving gushes of mud and debris, or lahars. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1 v set up for use 2install the washer and dryer Syn|Hypo|Hyper instal, put in, set up retrofit fit in or on an existing structure, such as an older house reinstallinstall again post, put upplace so as to be noticed lay, place, pose, position, put, set put into a certain place or abstract location 1v put into an office or a position Syn|Hypo instal induct, invest, seat place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position enthrone, invest, vestprovide with power and authority consecrate, ordain, order, ordinateappoint to a clerical posts coronate, crowninvest with regal power; enthrone enthrone, throneput a monarch on the throne ordaininvest with ministerial or priestly authority 2v place Syn establish, instal, set up |
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