installs
- 1Third-person singular simple present of install.
The technician installs the software before handing over the laptop.
Each spring, the city installs new benches along the waterfront.
Note
One spelling does double duty here. Besides agreeing with a singular subject, it is also the plural of the informal noun install, meaning an installation: the app passed a million installs. As a verb it nearly always takes an object. In its sense of settling in, it often turns reflexive, as when someone installs himself in the best chair, so read the sentence before deciding which word you have.
Within a week the new game had passed fifty thousand installs.
Every evening he installs himself in the armchair by the window.
installs is a form of install
install, verb: To connect, set up, or prepare something so that it is ready for use. Full entry
- Forms
- installinstalls he/she/itinstalling -ing forminstalled past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- install → installs: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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