healthy having good health:
A good diet keeps you healthy. They tested the drug on healthy volunteers.well used especially when describing or asking about how someone feels or looks:
I don’t feel well. How was James – did he look well?fine spoken used in a reply to a question about your health, or when talking about someone else’s health. Use
fine only in replies, not in questions or statements:
‘Hi, Tom, how are you?’ ‘Fine, thanks.’ She had a bad cold, but she’s fine now.all right/OK spoken not ill or injured. These expressions are very commonly used in everyday spoken English:
You look pale – are you feeling all right? He’s had an accident but he’s OK.better less ill than you were, or no longer ill:
I’m feeling a lot better now. Don’t come back to school until you’re better.fit healthy, especially because you exercise regularly:
She keeps fit by cycling everywhere. Police officers have to be physically fit and have good eyesight.in (good) shape healthy and fit:
Jogging keeps me in pretty good shape.robust literary healthy and strong, and not likely to become ill:
He had a robust constitution (=a strong and healthy body). robust plants a robust girl, wearing a thick woollen sweaterbe/look a picture of health to look very healthy:
She looked a picture of health as she posed for the cameras. [TahlilGaran] English Thesaurus ▲
install to put a piece of equipment somewhere and connect it so that it is ready to be used:
The company is installing a new computer system. How much does it cost to install central heating?put in to install something.
Put in is more common in everyday English than
install and is used especially about things that are not very complicated to install:
The workmen are coming to put the new windows in today. They removed the bath and put in a shower instead.fit to put a new part or piece of equipment into or onto something:
I had to fit new locks after the burglary. All vehicles must have seatbelts fitted.lay to put cables or a
carpet in the correct place on the ground:
Work on laying the telephone cables has not yet begun. Two workmen were laying carpet tiles in the kitchen.healthy having good health:
A good diet keeps you healthy. They tested the drug on healthy volunteers.well used especially when describing or asking about how someone feels or looks:
I don’t feel well. How was James – did he look well?fine spoken used in a reply to a question about your health, or when talking about someone else’s health. Use
fine only in replies, not in questions or statements:
‘Hi, Tom, how are you?’ ‘Fine, thanks.’ She had a bad cold, but she’s fine now.all right/OK spoken not ill or injured. These expressions are very commonly used in everyday spoken English:
You look pale – are you feeling all right? He’s had an accident but he’s OK.better less ill than you were, or no longer ill:
I’m feeling a lot better now. Don’t come back to school until you’re better.in (good) shape healthy and fit:
Jogging keeps me in pretty good shape.robust literary healthy and strong, and not likely to become ill:
He had a robust constitution (=a strong and healthy body). robust plants a robust girl, wearing a thick woollen sweaterbe/look a picture of health to look very healthy:
She looked a picture of health as she posed for the cameras. [TahlilGaran] English Thesaurus ▲