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misinstall

verb

Etymology

From mis- + install.

  1. derived from *stel-✻
  2. derived from *stallaz✻ — “place, position”
  3. derived from *stall✻
  4. derived from īnstallō — “to install, put in place, establish”
  5. derived from installer
  6. inherited from installen
  7. prefixed as misinstall — “mis + install”

Definitions

  1. To install improperly or by mistake.

    • Thermostats are quite reliable, but may not work because they are misinstalled, fall out of adjustment, need cleaning, or because components malfunction.
    • A family, school, society, or religion can misinstall our sexuality. Then that dimension of our personality does not work for us in healthy ways.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for misinstall. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA