transcription, транскрипция: [ ɪnstɔ:l ]
also instal
( installs, installing, installed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you install a piece of equipment, you fit it or put it somewhere so that it is ready to be used.
They had installed a new phone line in the apartment.
VERB : V n
• in‧stal‧la‧tion
Hundreds of lives could be saved if the installation of alarms was more widespread.
N-UNCOUNT : oft N of n
2.
If someone is installed in a new job or important position, they are officially given the job or position, often in a special ceremony.
A new Catholic bishop was installed in Galway yesterday...
Professor Sawyer was formally installed as President last Thursday...
The army has promised to install a new government within a week.
VERB : be V-ed , be V-ed as n , V n
• in‧stal‧la‧tion
He sent a letter inviting Naomi to attend his installation as chief of his tribe.
N-UNCOUNT : oft with poss , N as n
3.
If you install yourself in a particular place, you settle there and make yourself comfortable. ( FORMAL )
Before her husband’s death she had installed herself in a modern villa.
VERB : V pron-refl prep / adv