establish

1. 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. Source: opted

2. a. To appoint or constitute for permanence, as officers, laws, regulations, etc.; to enact; to ordain. Source: opted

3. 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. Source: opted

4. 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. Source: opted

5. 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. Source: opted

6. v. set up or found Source: wordnet

7. v. set up or lay the groundwork for Source: wordnet

8. v. establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment Source: wordnet

9. v. institute, enact, or establish Source: wordnet

10. v. bring about Source: wordnet

11. v. build or establish something abstract Source: wordnet

12. v. use as a basis for; found on Source: wordnet

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