configure

verb con·fig·ure \ kən-ˈfi-gyər , especially British -ˈfi-gə \

|Updated on: 11 Jul 2018

Examples: configure in a Sentence

Definition of configure

configured; configuring

transitive verb

: to set up for operation especially in a particular way

a fighter plane configured for the Malaysian air force

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Examples of configure in a Sentence

The instructions tell you how to configure the kit correctly.
The plane is configured for military use.

Recent Examples of configure from the Web

Phones can be configured to prevent anyone from installing an app without parental approval, and Driscoll recommends doing that.

— don stacom, Courant Community, "Internet Safety Expert: Know Who Your Kids Are Communicating With," 6 July 2018
Newer Windows and Mac systems have built-in software firewalls for configuring your outgoing and incoming internet ports.

— kim komando, Fox News, "10 insider tricks to keep hackers and scammers from stealing from you," 22 June 2018
In its rings—a vast, gleaming disk of icy rubble—the mission recorded signs of the same physical mechanisms that were key in configuring the early solar system and similar disks of material around other stars.

— carolyn porco, Scientific American, "Cassini at Saturn: A Retrospective," 1 Oct. 2017
The tournament rotates among sites of disparate design — some old, some new, but all configured with impossible rough and treacherous greens designed to crush a golfer’s spirit.

— marcus hayes, Philly.com, "Curtis Strange embraces the idea of Brooks Koepka joining his U.S. Open club," 18 June 2018
It can be configured with a robotic arm or a .50 caliber machine gun and can carry payloads of up to 1,650 pounds.

— kyle mizokami, Popular Mechanics, "This Tank-Killer Robot Could Revolutionize Ground Warfare," 14 June 2018
At the New Berlin production center, Artemax makes three types of wristband — Tyvek, plastic and vinyl — configured with different features such as snaps and holographs in an unlimited selection of colors to create hundreds of styles.

— sarah hauer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Chances are, the wristband you got at that concert or festival was made by Artemax in New Berlin," 5 June 2018
Qatar Airways recently unveiled designs for its QSuite, with moving panels and swiveling seats that can be configured into a private dining room for four, for family meals or business meetings at 35,000 feet.

— emily matchar, Smithsonian, "Seven Airplane Innovations That Could Change How We Travel," 30 May 2018
Check out these cool, modular benches that are configured in many ways from May 28 to June 1 in the first floor display window at the Fair-Haired Dumbbell building, 11 N.E. Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. in Portland.

— janet eastman, OregonLive.com, "See what artists did to those old Portland airport benches (photos)," 23 May 2018

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Origin and Etymology of configure

Middle English configuren (as past participle configurid) "to model on, conform to," borrowed from Middle French & Latin; Middle French configurer "to compare, form," borrowed from Latin configūrāre "to mold, shape," from con- con- + figūrāre "to shape, form, make a likeness of" — more at ²figure

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