install

Meanings

Verb

• To connect, set up or prepare something for use.
• To admit formally into an office, rank or position.
• To establish or settle in.

Noun

• Installer. A software utility that installs an application.
• An installation.

Related

Opposite words

• uninstall

Origin

• From Middle English installen, from Old French installer, from Medieval Latin installō, from in- + stallum, from Frankish *stall ("stall, position, place"), from Proto-Germanic *stallaz, from Proto-Indo-European *stelǝ-, *stAlǝn-, *stAlǝm-. Cognate with Old High German stal, Old English steall, Old English onstellan, Middle High German anstalt, German anstellen, German einstellen, Dutch aanstellen, Dutch instellen. More at in, stall.