CONFIGURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does configure mean? 

• CONFIGURE (verb)
  The verb CONFIGURE has 1 sense:

1. set up for a particular purpose

  Familiarity information: CONFIGURE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONFIGURE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they configure    ... he / she / it configures   
Past simple: configured   
Past participle: configured   
-ing form: configuring   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Set up for a particular purpose

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Context example:

configure a plane for a combat mission

Hypernyms (to "configure" is one way to...):

assemble; piece; put together; set up; tack; tack together (create by putting components or members together)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

configuration (an arrangement of parts or elements)

 Context examples 

A device that malfunctions because it was incorrectly installed, set-up, or configured (e.g., misconfiguration of an automatic defibrillator to semi-automatic leading to failure)

(Device Installation Problem Evaluation Result, Food and Drug Administration)

Camptothecin readily undergoes hydrolysis at physiological pH, changing its conformation from the active, S-configured lactone structure to an inactive carboxylate form.

(Camptothecin-20(S)-O-Propionate Hydrate, NCI Thesaurus)

The phone provides the energy and the communication channels necessary to configure each measure and to process and transmit the information wherever it is useful.

(Scientists design platform to conduct chemical analysis using a smartphone, University of Granada)

The ester chain in the vicinity of the S-configured lactone moiety, a key determinant for the chemotherapeutic efficacy of the camptothecins, inhibits protein binding, rendering this agent resistant to hydrolysis and prolonging its half-life.

(Camptothecin-20(S)-O-Propionate Hydrate, NCI Thesaurus)