different between installation vs garrison

English

Etymology

From Middle French installation, from Medieval Latin installatioMorphologically install +? -ation

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?nst??le???n]
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

installation (countable and uncountable, plural installations)

1. An act of installing.
2. Something installed, especially the whole of a system of machines, apparatus, and accessories, when set up and arranged for practical working, as in electric lighting, transmission of power, etc.
3. A work of installation art.
4. A grouping of facilities that constitute a permanent military base.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• installation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

installer +? -ation

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??s.ta.la.sj??/

Noun

installation f (plural installations)

1. installation

Further reading

• “installation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Middle English garisoun, garison, from Old French garison, guarison, from Frankish [Term?], ultimately of Germanic origin; compare guard, ward. Doublet of warison.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??æ??s?n/
• (Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA^(key): /?????s?n/

Noun

garrison (plural garrisons)

1. A permanent military post.
2. The troops stationed at such a post.
3. (allusive) Occupants.
4. (US, military, U.S. Space Force) A military unit, nominally headed by a colonel, equivalent to a USAF support wing, or an army regiment.

Synonyms

• (USSF): delta (an operations wing equivalent)

Translations

Verb

garrison (third-person singular simple present garrisons, present participle garrisoning, simple past and past participle garrisoned)

1. To assign troops to a military post.
2. To convert into a military fort.
3. To occupy with troops.
   • 'Establishing a land bridge through Mariupol to Crimea would take tens of thousands of troops. So would garrisoning eastern Ukraine.', http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21615605-now-willing-use-russian-troops-more-or-less-openly-eastern-ukraine-vladimir-putin-has

Related terms

• garment
• garnish

Translations

Anagrams

• arrosing, roarings

Jamaican Creole

Etymology

Semantic shift of English garrison.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???a??s?n/
• Hyphenation: ga?rri?son

Noun

garrison (plural: garrison dem, quantified: garrison)

1. A de facto autonomous district controlled by a don and the don's armed gang, typically loyal to a political party; a favela; a slum.

See also

• don
• shotta