{
    "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."
}