Found 4 items, similar to establish.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak) Definition: establish menetapkan
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: establish membuat, mendirikan, mengasaskan
English → English (WordNet) Definition: establish establish v 1: set up or found; “She set up a literacy program” [syn: set up , found, launch] [ant: abolish] 2: set up or lay the groundwork for; “establish a new department” [syn: found, plant, constitute, institute] 3: 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” [syn: prove, demonstrate, show, shew] [ant: disprove] 4: institute, enact, or establish; “make laws” [syn: lay down, make] 5: bring about; “The trompe l'oeil-illusion establishes depth” [syn: give] 6: place; “Her manager had set her up at the Ritz” [syn: install, instal, set up] 7: use as a basis for; found on; “base a claim on some observation” [syn: base, ground, found] 8: build or establish something abstract; “build a reputation” [syn: build]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Establish Establish \Es*tab"lish\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Established; p. pr. & vb. n. Establishing.] [OE. establissen, OF. establir, F. ['e]tablir, fr. L. stabilire, fr. stabilis firm, steady, stable. See Stable, a., -ish, and cf. Stablish.] 1. To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm. [1913 Webster] So were the churches established in the faith. --Acts xvi. 5. [1913 Webster] The best established tempers can scarcely forbear being borne down. --Burke. [1913 Webster] Confidence which must precede union could be established only by consummate prudence and self-control. --Bancroft. [1913 Webster] 2. To appoint or constitute for permanence, as officers, laws, regulations, etc.; to enact; to ordain. [1913 Webster] By the consent of all, we were established The people's magistrates. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed. --Dan. vi. 8. [1913 Webster] 3. 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. [1913 Webster] He hath established it [the earth], he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited. --Is. xlv. 18. [1913 Webster] Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity! --Hab. ii. 12. [1913 Webster] 4. 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. [1913 Webster] At the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established. --Deut. xix. 15. [1913 Webster] 5. 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. [1913 Webster]