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Installed

Install \In*stall"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Installed; p. pr. & vb. n. Installing.] [F. installer, LL. installare, fr. pref. in- in + OHG. stal a place, stall, G. stall, akin to E. stall: cf. It. installare. See Stall.] [Written also instal.]

  1. To set in a seat; to give a place to; establish (one) in a place.

    She installed her guest hospitably by the fireside.
    --Sir W. Scott.

  2. To place in an office, rank, or order; to invest with any charge by the usual ceremonies; to instate; to induct; as, to install an ordained minister as pastor of a church; to install a college president.

    Unworthily Thou wast installed in that high degree.
    --Shak.

Wiktionary
installed

vb. 1 (en-past of: install) 2 readied for use 3 #(literally) 4 #(of http://en.wikipedi

  1. org/wiki/Computer_software) 5 put into position 6 placed

WordNet
installed

See instal

instal
  1. v. set up for use; "install the washer and dryer"; "We put in a new sink" [syn: install, put in, set up]

  2. place; "Her manager had set her up at the Ritz" [syn: install, set up, establish]

  3. [also: installing, installed]

Usage examples of "installed".

The second thought she wanted a rough arrangement such as could be installed in a retreat too far from a City or Center for regular facilities.

I came back to ask for military support to meet us there to stave off a possible pirate takeover until a colony can be legitimately installed with the appropriate fanfare.

The captain wanted you in Engineering first, because we've installed a new environmental homeostasis system and it's still being tested.

She ran her hand lightly along the edge of the desk she'd installed in her office.

A sealed beacon, installed in the ship's architecture as it was built, could be triggered by Fleet surveillance scans.

Once installed, the sessile Ssli never experienced another environment, never ‘met’ anyone except through a computer interface.

There, installed in his office, he barked out orders, wrote more, called for messengers, and generally organized the start of his reign.

King Mavron installed Niffy on her own chair with a table just the right height for her to eat from a dish of livers and other tender morsels which he himself had interviewed the chef to provide.

I assume, Commander Breslaw, that the CV factor will be installed in my drive chambers before I undertake a return to Beta Corvi?

Anna and her parents at the graduation ceremony, Professor Brogen handing out the special awards she'd gotten in Xenology, Diplomacy, and First Contact Studies, Moira showing up at the landing field the same day she was installed in her ship, still with Tomas, wonder of wonders.

CenCom could perfectly well have communicated with her directly, via the electronic network that linked Nancia's ship computers with all other computers in this subspace—and via the surgically installed synaptic connectors that linked Nancia's physical body, safe behind its titanium shell, with the ship's computer—but it was a point of etiquette among most of the operators to address brainships just as they would any other human being.

He always liked to be Bonecrush, the cyborg monster who stalked the lower tunnels of the labyrinth but occasionally blasted out into space with his secretly installed jetpacks and personal force shield.

And the contractor who'd installed nets of electronic impulse chargers behind the permalloy skin, making the room impervious to any known external monitors, had suffered a fatal overdose of Blissto shortly after the completion of the room.

But the liver and kidneys are replacements, and last year I had a new hyperchip-enhanced blood filtering function installed so that I could monitor my own internal prostheses.

The hyperchips that passed QA were installed as fast as they were released, and every sale passed through the rationing board.