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{
"term": "install",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "install",
"heSheIt": "installs"
},
"pastSimple": "installed",
"pastParticiple": "installed",
"ingForm": "installing"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to fix equipment or furniture into position so that it can be used",
"sensetop": "install something",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "They're planning to **install a** new drainage **system**."
},
{
"text": "Make sure the **equipment is** properly **installed**."
},
{
"text": "A hidden **camera** had been **installed** in the room."
},
{
"text": "A professionally installed alarm will cost from about £500."
},
{
"text": "An anti-theft device is installed in the vehicle."
},
{
"text": "The loft ladder is easily installed."
},
{
"text": "The switches are cheap to buy and easy to install."
},
{
"text": "They estimate that four out of five child car seats are installed improperly."
},
{
"text": "Water softening units can be permanently installed into the plumbing system."
},
{
"text": "a recently installed swimming pool"
},
{
"text": "The council failed to install pollution-monitoring equipment at the site."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["correctly", "properly", "safely"],
"verb + install": ["be easy to", "be simple to"],
"preposition": ["in", "on"],
"phrases": [
"be installed as CEO, leader, president etc.",
"newly installed",
"recently installed"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to put a new program onto a computer",
"sensetop": "install somethinginstall something on something",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "to **install software/an app**"
},
{
"text": "Do not **download and install** programs from websites that you are unfamiliar with."
},
{
"text": "Be selective about the apps you install on your device.",
"contextForm": "install something on something"
}
],
"topics": ["Computers"],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["correctly", "properly", "safely"],
"verb + install": ["be easy to", "be simple to"],
"preposition": ["in", "on"],
"phrases": [
"be installed as CEO, leader, president etc.",
"newly installed",
"recently installed"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to put somebody in a new position of authority, often with an official ceremony",
"sensetop": "install somebody (as something)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "He was installed as President last May."
},
{
"text": "She was recently installed as president of the National Medical Association."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["correctly", "properly", "safely"],
"verb + install": ["be easy to", "be simple to"],
"preposition": ["in", "on"],
"phrases": [
"be installed as CEO, leader, president etc.",
"newly installed",
"recently installed"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "to make somebody/yourself comfortable in a particular place or position",
"sensetop": "install somebody/yourself (+ adv./prep.)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "We installed ourselves in the front row."
},
{
"text": "She saw her guests safely installed in their rooms and then went downstairs."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈstɔːl/",
"audio": "in/install/install__gb_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈstɔːlz/",
"audio": "in/install/installs__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈstɔːld/",
"audio": "in/install/installed__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈstɔːlɪŋ/",
"audio": "in/install/installing__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈstɔːl/",
"audio": "in/install/install__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈstɔːlz/",
"audio": "in/install/installs__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈstɔːld/",
"audio": "in/install/installed__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈstɔːlɪŋ/",
"audio": "in/install/installing__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English (in sense (3)): from medieval Latin installare, from in- ‘into’ + stallum ‘place, stall’. Sense (1) dates from the mid 19th cent."
}