Word Finder - apply

definition

To lay or place; to put (one thing to another)

example

to apply cream to a rash

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To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case

example

to apply funds to the repayment of a debt

synonyms

• appropriate
• devote
• use

definition

To make use of, declare, or pronounce, as suitable, fitting, or relative

example

We need to apply the skills we've learned to solve this problem

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To put closely; to join; to engage and employ diligently, or with attention

synonyms

• attach
• incline

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To to address; to refer; generally used reflexively.

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To submit oneself as a candidate (with the adposition "to" designating the recipient of the submission, and the adposition "for" designating the position).

example

I recently applied to the tavern for a job as a bartender.

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To pertain or be relevant to a specified individual or group.

example

That rule only applies to foreigners.

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To busy; to keep at work; to ply.

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To visit.

Different laws apply in different jurisdictions.

No one will play the game if the rules only apply to one team. 2.

We have a police force and a court system to apply the laws equally to all.

When confronted with any thorny societal problem, I apply the same basic thought process I used on the five topics of this book.

Kant's point is ignored, that deductions from these " imaginary " figures apply to the " real " world of experience.

The same remarks apply to goods engines.

Sometimes ships that are windbound and have exhausted their provision of water, touch here and apply to the natives for it; in such cases the crews sometimes fall into the hands of the latter and most of them are massacred."

He told me once to apply to you...

He defined almost every principle that governed commercial transactions in such a manner that his successors had only to apply the rules he had laid down.

For the composition of the numerous liquids and powders special works must be consulted, but the following principles apply generally.

That doesn't give him much time to apply for false papers.

If you take low-worth items or raw materials and apply labor to them to make something that has value, you have created wealth.

One reply to this is that it is not difficult to determine from time to time the errors of the screws and to apply the necessary corrections to the observations.

Or don't the same rules apply to the wife?

The fact that much of the wheat to which the figures apply is still in the stack after the publication of the figures shows that the latter are essentially estimates.

Again, evolution itself need not apply everywhere.

Except as to the marrying age, these figures fairly apply to women.

My purpose in this chapter will not be to persuade the reader of any political doctrine of trade; please apply your own political and social values as you see fit.

He worked to apply a means test, pared the rolls back, then died; the rolls swelled again, and his successor again tried to bring them in line, but it was hard.

If, indeed, they apply to me even remotely, I do not see that I deserve any laudation on that account.

Afterwards, go get the death dealer Darkyn has and apply some pressure.

The advantages of a purely territorial system have tempted various War Ministers to apply it, but the results were not good, owing to the want of uniformity in the military qualities and the political subordination of the different districts.

In this experiment a great noise was produced, corresponding to a loss of energy, and Joule endeavoured to determine the amount of energy necessary to produce an equal amount of sound from the string of a violoncello and to apply a corresponding correction.

Hughes invented the microphone, but did not apply for letters patent.

I think it would be best not to bring it before the Emperor, but to apply to the commander of the corps....

The Discourse of Method and the Meditations apply what the Rules for the Direction of the Mind had regarded in particular instances to our conceptions of the world as a whole.

Since the passing of the Light Railways Act of 1896, which did not apply to Ireland, it is possible to give a formal definition by saying that a light railway is one constructed under the provisions of that act; but it must be noted that the commissioners appointed under that act have authorized many lines which in their physical characteristics are indistinguishable from street tramways constructed under the Tramways Act, and to these the term light railways would certainly not be applied in ordinary parlance.

To call it "pessimism" is merely to apply to it a characteristically Western principle according to which happiness is impossible without personality.

They can apply to the police commissaries (stanovoti) or to the justices of the peace; but the great distances to be traversed in a country so sparsely populated makes this course highly inconvenient.

In 1832 priests were forbidden to join them, and they had to apply to a deposed Bosnian metropolitan, who became their chief bishop, establishing his see in the monastery of Belokrinitsa in Bukovina.

To apply these discoveries to the malaria of man was an obvious step. In working out the details the Italian school have again taken a prominent part.

There is no reason why we should apply to this particular act a different method of inquiry from that we should apply to any other of the numerous acts, of more or less economic importance, passed in the same session of parliament.

In Der Kampf urns Dasein am Himmel von Prel endeavoured to apply the Darwinian doctrine of organic evolution not only to the sphere of consciousness but also even more widely as the philosophical principle of the world.

It does not seem, however, to apply universally.

The arguments of conservative writers involve concessions which, though often overlooked by their readers, are very detrimental to the position they endeavour to support, and the objections they bring against the theory of the introduction of new law-books (under a Josiah or an Ezra) apply with equal force to the promulgation of Mosaic teaching which had been admittedly ignored or forgotten.

Even the name Elburz, which European geographers apply to the chains and ranges that extend for a length of over 500 in.

A letter of Bede to the archbishop Ecgbert of York may be interpreted to apply to this kind of tenure.

The acts of 1803 and 1816 already mentioned apply to Ireland.

The official receiver is able to apply under this section for revival as the " former liquidator " applying on the company's behalf.

Throughout the two-year traineeship, he will be able to apply for jobs within the Council as and when they arise.

The Hebrew and Greek terms, however, lost the connotation of a change of residence, and both ger and " proselyte " came to apply to a convert without regard to his nationality.

His Preussische Geschichte (4 vols., Stuttgart, 1899-1902), which is perhaps his most notable work, is an attempt to apply scientific rather than patriotic canons to a subject which has been mainly in the hands of historians with a patriotic bias.

In France an alien desiring naturalization, if he has not resided continuously in the country for ten years, must obtain permission to establish his domicile in France; three years after (in special cases one year) he is entitled to apply for naturalization, which involves the renunciation of any existing allegiance.

Above the relationship of parents all are simply ancestors, no term being used for grandfather which would not equally apply to any more remote male ancestor.

Ober Anmut and Wiirde, published in 1793, was a further contribution to the elucidation and widening of Kant's theories; and in the eloquent Briefe fiber die cisthetische Erziehung des9Menschen (1795), Schiller proceeded to apply his new standpoint to the problems of social and individual life.

The old Tiburtine Sibylla went through edition after edition, in each case being altered so as to apply to the government of the monarch who happened to be ruling at the time.

The objections to the Solomonic age as the time of origination of the book apply also to the period extending from Solomon through the 6th century.

The above remarks apply to the permanent population.

The men who design and work in metals have to take account of these vital differences and characteristics, and must be careful not to apply treatment suitable to one kind to another of a dissimilar character.

The ends are frequently allowed to hang down over the shoulders, and are called shimla or shamla, terms which also apply to the whole head-dress.