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Installs vs Instills - What's the difference?

installs | instills |

As verbs the difference between installs and instills

is that installs is while instills is (instill).

installs

English

Verb

(head)
  • (install)
  • (instal)

  • install

    English

    Alternative forms

    * enstall * instal (less common spelling )

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To connect, set up or prepare something for use.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author= Chico Harlan
  • , volume=189, issue=2, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Japan pockets the subsidy … , passage=Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."}}
  • To admit formally into an office, rank or position.
  • To establish or settle in.
  • Antonyms

    * uninstall

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal) Installation. (Usage originated as a truncated form of the word installation.)
  • (computing) (jargon) A computer software utility that is run to install a software application. Also used attributively.
  • After inserting the disk, you need to run the install .
    But I can't find the install disk.

    instills

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (instill)

  • instill

    English

    Alternative forms

    * instil UK

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cause a quality to become part of someone's nature.
  • It is important to instill discipline in a child at an early age.
  • To pour in (medicine, for example) drop by drop.
  • See also

    * infuse