establish > define

verb

• Set up or found.
  • usage: "She set up a literacy program"
  • synonyms: set up, found, launch
• Set up or lay the groundwork for.
  • usage: "establish a new department"
  • synonyms: found, plant, constitute, institute
• Establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment.
  • usage: "The experiment demonstrated the instability of the compound"; "The mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture"
  • synonyms: prove, demonstrate, show, shew
• Institute, enact, or establish.
  • usage: "make laws"
  • synonyms: lay down, make
• Bring about.
  • usage: "The trompe l'oeil-illusion establishes depth"
  • synonyms: give
• Place.
  • usage: "Her manager had set her up at the Ritz"
  • synonyms: install, instal, set up
• Build or establish something abstract.
  • usage: "build a reputation"
  • synonyms: build
• Use as a basis for; found on.
  • usage: "base a claim on some observation"
  • synonyms: base, ground, found

• (a.) To appoint or constitute for permanence, as officers, laws, regulations, etc.; to enact; to ordain.
• (a.) 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.
• (a.) 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.
• (a.) 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.
• (a.) 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.