ESTABLISH
\ɪstˈablɪʃ], \ɪstˈablɪʃ], \ɪ_s_t_ˈa_b_l_ɪ_ʃ]\
Definitions of ESTABLISH
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment; "The experiment demonstrated the instability of the compound"; "The mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture"
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set up or found; "She set up a literacy program"
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place; "Her manager had set her up at the Ritz"
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bring about; "The trompe l'oeil-illusion establishes depth"
By Princeton University
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establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment; "The experiment demonstrated the instability of the compound"; "The mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture"
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set up or found; "She set up a literacy program"
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place; "Her manager had set her up at the Ritz"
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bring about; "The trompe l'oeil-illusion establishes depth"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To appoint or constitute for permanence, as officers, laws, regulations, etc.; to enact; to ordain.
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To secure public recognition in favor of; to prove and cause to be accepted as true; as, to establish a fact, usage, principle, opinion, doctrine, etc.
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To originate and secure the permanent existence of; to found; to institute; to create and regulate; - said of a colony, a state, or other institutions.
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To set up in business; to place advantageously in a fixed condition; - used reflexively; as, he established himself in a place; the enemy established themselves in the citadel.
By Oddity Software
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To appoint or constitute for permanence, as officers, laws, regulations, etc.; to enact; to ordain.
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To secure public recognition in favor of; to prove and cause to be accepted as true; as, to establish a fact, usage, principle, opinion, doctrine, etc.
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To originate and secure the permanent existence of; to found; to institute; to create and regulate; - said of a colony, a state, or other institutions.
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To set up in business; to place advantageously in a fixed condition; - used reflexively; as, he established himself in a place; the enemy established themselves in the citadel.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To set and fix firmly or unalterably; to found; to ordain; to appoint; to confirm; to make good; to set up and confirm; to set up; to set up by authority and endow.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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