📖 I — The English dictionary · page 26

install — Everyday, meaning 1: To put a piece of equipment in place and connect it so it is ready to use, like a smoke alarm or a new cooker.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To put a program or app onto a computer, tablet or phone so it works.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To install someone means to put them into an official job or position of power.↗ Example: Dad installed a new smoke alarm in the hall.↗ · Ask a grown-up before you install a new app.↗ · The game takes ten minutes to install.↗ · We installed solar panels on the roof.↗ · The school installed new computers in the library.↗ · Click «Install» to put the program on your tablet.↗ · The plumber installed a new sink.↗ · She was not installed as a real court cook.↗

installation — Everyday, meaning 1: Putting a machine, system or program in place so it is ready to use: the installation of a new boiler, software installation.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (art) An installation is a large work of art built in a room or space that people walk around or into.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A military or industrial base or building: a military installation.↗ Example: The installation of the new heating took two days.↗ · Wait for the installation to finish before you open the app.↗ · The museum has an art installation made of a thousand paper birds.↗ · The army has an installation near the coast.↗ · The installation of solar panels saves money.↗ · Follow the installation instructions carefully.↗

instalment — Everyday, meaning 1: An instalment is one of several parts of a payment, paid at different times.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An instalment is one part of a story or series that comes out bit by bit.↗ Example: They paid for the sofa in ten instalments.↗ · The next instalment of the comic comes out on Friday.↗ · Each instalment is fifty dollars.↗ · The book was first printed in weekly instalments.↗ · We are watching the final instalment tonight.↗ · Grandad paid off the loan in monthly instalments.↗ · With the present instalment the tale of English Fairy Stories that are likely to obtain currency among the young folk is complete.↗

instance — Everyday, meaning 1: An instance is one example or one case of something happening.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «For instance» means «for example».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (formal) «In the first instance» means at first, as the first step.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (computing) An instance is one copy of a program or object that is running.↗ Example: There are many animals that live in the desert, for instance camels.↗ · This is one instance of kindness I will never forget.↗ · In this instance, the teacher let us off.↗ · Please contact the office in the first instance.↗ · Give an instance of a time when you were brave.↗ · Each instance of rudeness was written down.↗ · For instance, look at my house!↗ · 7:1 Thus for instance, they imagined that the name of Jehovah, יהוי, is by reversing the alphabet; מצפץ (mzpz); mem signifies the letter jod, zaddi, the letter he, and pe, the letter wav.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · 41) Our author means to say that the water has a great disposition to unite itself with the caloric, thus for instance is the fire latent in steam, but the air equipoises them.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

instant — Everyday, meaning 1: Happening at once, with no wait: «an instant reply».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (of food or drink) Made very quickly, usually by adding hot water: «instant noodles».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun) A very short moment: «For an instant, nobody moved».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (the instant) As soon as: «Call me the instant you arrive».↗ Example: The magic potion had an instant effect.↗ · We had instant noodles for lunch.↗ · In an instant, the lights went out.↗ · Come here this instant!↗ · Call me the instant the cake is ready.↗ · The film was an instant success.↗ · For an instant, I thought I saw a ghost.↗ · In an instant he was there.↗ · And at one instant I may speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it; (Prophets JER.18.9, JPS 1917)↗ · At one instant I may speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it; (Prophets JER.18.7, JPS 1917)↗ · Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.↗ (Prophets ISA.30.13, JPS 1917)↗

instantaneous — Everyday, meaning 1: Happening immediately, with no delay at all.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (science) At one exact instant of time: instantaneous speed.↗ Example: The reaction was instantaneous: the mixture fizzed straight away.↗ · Text messages arrive almost instantaneously.↗ · The speedometer shows your instantaneous speed.↗ · When you flick the switch, the light seems instantaneous.↗ · Her answer was instantaneous; she didn't need to think.↗ · Death of the cells was instantaneous in the boiling water.↗ · It was impossible to tell, the shock was so instantaneous.↗

instantaneously — Everyday, meaning 1: Immediately, with no time at all passing in between.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (science) At one exact instant of time, rather than over a period.↗ Example: When I pressed the switch, the light came on instantaneously.↗ · The message reached my friend in Australia almost instantaneously.↗ · The lizard's tongue shot out and caught the fly instantaneously.↗ · Ice cream melts quickly in the sun, but not instantaneously.↗ · The crowd reacted instantaneously when the goal went in.↗ · We see lightning almost instantaneously, but the thunder takes longer to reach us.↗ · Nothing travels truly instantaneously; even light takes time.↗ · The grain of sand is found and brought, and the result is that the whole of the monstrous brood of Trolls or Haugebasser is instantaneously destroyed.↗

instantly — Everyday, meaning 1: Instantly means at once, in an instant, with no time at all in between.↗ Example: The light came on instantly.↗ · The ice cream melted almost instantly in the sun.↗ · I recognised her instantly.↗ · Light travels so fast it seems to arrive instantly.↗ · The sugar dissolved instantly in the hot tea.↗ · He instantly felt better after the drink.↗ · Instantly the truth flashed upon him.↗

instead — Everyday, meaning 1: Instead means in place of something else.↗ e.g. We had no milk, so we drank water instead.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «Instead of» comes before the thing that is replaced: tea instead of coffee.↗ Example: What if at the start I had put two pears instead of what I put?↗ · Ali bought 5 pens instead of 3.↗ · Instead of 4 boxes, there are 6.↗ · It was raining, so we played inside instead.↗ · Can I have juice instead of milk?↗ · Walk instead of running in the corridor.↗ · Instead of crying, she laughed.↗ · Use a pencil instead of a pen.↗ · It made Peter kick instead of stab.↗ · And I have taken the Levites instead of all the first-born among the children of Israel.↗ (Torah NUM.8.18, JPS 1917)↗ · Now therefore, let thy servant, I pray thee, abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren.↗ (Torah GEN.44.33, JPS 1917)↗ · And Adam knew his wife again; and she bore a son, and called his name Seth: 'for God hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel; for Cain slew him.'↗ (Torah GEN.4.25, JPS 1917)↗ · Instead of restoring our fields, he divideth them.'↗ (Prophets MIC.2.4, JPS 1917)↗ · And Absalom had set Amasa over the host instead of Joab.↗ (Prophets 2SA.17.25, JPS 1917)↗ · Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and noisome weeds instead of barley.↗ (Writings JOB.31.40, JPS 1917)↗

instigate — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) To start something or make it happen, such as an inquiry, a plan or changes.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To stir up or encourage trouble, a fight or bad behaviour, often while staying in the background.↗ Example: The council instigated a plan to make the park safer.↗ · The teacher wanted to know who had instigated the food fight.↗ · Jake didn't throw anything, but he instigated the whole argument.↗ · The school instigated a new reading programme for every class.↗ · Police instigated an investigation after the window was smashed.↗ · She was accused of instigating the trouble on the bus.↗ · The changes were made at the instigation of the parents' group.↗

instigator — Everyday, meaning 1: A person who starts something, especially trouble such as a fight, argument or protest.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A person who causes an action or plan to begin: the instigator of the idea.↗ Example: The teacher wanted to know who was the instigator of the snowball fight.↗ · He was the instigator of the plan to build a treehouse.↗ · The instigators of the riot were arrested.↗ · She was the instigator of our class charity sale.↗ · Don't be the instigator of unkind games.↗ · In the story, the fox was the instigator of every trick in the farmyard.↗ · Unprepared for this sudden attack he admitted his guilt, but pointed to the wife of Xuthus as the instigator of the crime.↗

instill — Everyday, meaning 1: To slowly put an idea, feeling or habit into someone's mind so it stays: instil good manners.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (medicine, rare) To put liquid in drop by drop, like eye drops.↗ Example: Our coach instilled confidence in the whole team.↗ · Grandad instilled a love of fishing in me.↗ · Good teachers instill curiosity.↗ · The scary film instilled fear in my little brother.↗ · Parents try to instill good manners in their children.↗ · Practice instils good habits.↗

instinct — Everyday, meaning 1: A natural way of behaving that an animal or person is born with and does not need to learn (Birds build nests by instinct).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A strong feeling or sense about what is true or what to do, without thinking it through (trust your instinct).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A natural ability or talent (an instinct for music).↗ Example: Spiders spin webs by instinct.↗ · Baby turtles go towards the sea by instinct.↗ · My instinct told me something was wrong, so I left.↗ · Trust your instincts if a stranger makes you feel uncomfortable.↗ · A cat's instinct is to chase things that move.↗ · She has a good instinct for which questions to ask.↗ · Survival instinct made the deer run.↗ · In his excitement he had forgotten the river, and it was not till the cold water touched his feet that he stood still by instinct.↗

instinctive — Everyday, meaning 1: Done naturally, without learning or thinking about it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (science) Coming from instinct: behaviour an animal is born knowing, like a spider spinning a web.↗ Example: Pulling your hand from a hot pan is instinctive.↗ · Baby turtles have an instinctive urge to crawl to the sea.↗ · Spinning webs is instinctive for spiders; nobody teaches them.↗ · She had an instinctive feeling that something was wrong.↗ · Ducklings instinctively follow their mother.↗ · He's an instinctive footballer who always knows where to run.↗ · Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal.↗

instinctively — Everyday, meaning 1: Instinctively means doing something naturally, without thinking about it or being taught, because you feel it is right or your body does it automatically.↗ Example: She instinctively put her hands out when she fell.↗ · Baby turtles instinctively crawl towards the sea.↗ · I instinctively pulled my hand away from the hot pan.↗ · He instinctively knew something was wrong.↗ · The cat instinctively crouched when it saw the bird.↗ · Birds instinctively know how to build nests.↗

institute — Everyday, meaning 1: An institute is an organisation set up for a special purpose, such as research, teaching or science, and also the building it uses.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) To institute something is to start or set it up, like a rule or system.↗ Example: She works at a science institute that studies the ocean.↗ · The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a famous university.↗ · Gran goes to the Women's Institute every Thursday.↗ · The school instituted a new rule about phones.↗ · The king instituted a tax on salt.↗ · The institute opened a new museum for children.↗ · Games, called Delia, instituted by Theseus, were celebrated at Delos every four years.↗

institution — Everyday, meaning 1: An institution is a large organisation such as a university, bank, hospital, museum or school.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An institution is a custom or tradition that has existed for a long time, such as marriage or Sunday lunch.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (old, sometimes negative) An institution can mean a big building where people were kept and cared for, like an old hospital or children's home.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (informal, joking) A person or place that has been around a long time and everyone knows is «an institution».↗ Example: The university is an old institution.↗ · Banks are financial institutions.↗ · The museum is a national institution.↗ · Fish and chips on Friday is a family institution.↗ · The corner shop has become a local institution.↗ · The government is the most important public institution.↗ · Long ago, some children were sent to live in institutions.↗ · The most famous of these institutions was the oracle of Apollo at Delphi, which was held in general repute all over the world.↗

instruct — Everyday, meaning 1: To instruct someone is to tell them what they must do, especially officially or with authority.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To instruct someone is to teach them a skill.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (law, UK) To instruct a lawyer is to hire them to work for you.↗ Example: The teacher instructed us to line up quietly.↗ · The coach instructed the team in how to pass the ball.↗ · Follow the steps as instructed.↗ · The pilot instructed passengers to fasten their seat belts.↗ · Firefighters instructed everyone to leave the building.↗ · She instructs children in swimming at the local pool.↗ · The recipe instructs you to bake the cake for 30 minutes.↗ · Then her aunt instructed her what to do.↗ · Out of heaven He made thee to hear His voice, that He might instruct thee; and upon earth He made thee to see His great fire; and thou didst hear His words out of the midst of the fire.↗ (Torah DEU.4.36, JPS 1917)↗ · Or who was His counsellor that he might instruct Him?↗ (Prophets ISA.40.13, JPS 1917)↗ · For He doth instruct him aright; his God doth teach him.↗ (Prophets ISA.28.26, JPS 1917)↗ · Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.↗ (Writings JOB.4.3, JPS 1917)↗