INSTAL (installed, installing)

 Dictionary entry overview: What does instal mean? 

• INSTAL (verb)
  The verb INSTAL has 2 senses:

1. set up for use
2. place

  Familiarity information: INSTAL used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INSTAL (verb)

Meaning:

Set up for use

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

instal; install; put in; set up

Context examples:

install the washer and dryer / We put in a new sink

Hypernyms (to "instal" is one way to...):

lay; place; pose; position; put; set (put into a certain place or abstract location)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "instal"):

retrofit (fit in or on an existing structure, such as an older house)

reinstall (install again)

post; put up (put up)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP

Sentence example:

They want to instal the doors

Meaning:

Place

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

instal; install; establish; set up

Context example:

Her manager had set her up at the Ritz

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody