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Apply   /əplˈaɪ/   Listen
verb
Apply  v. t.  (past & past part. applied; pres. part. applying)  
1.
To lay or place; to put or adjust (one thing to another); with to; as, to apply the hand to the breast; to apply medicaments to a diseased part of the body. "He said, and the sword his throat applied."
2.
To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case; to appropriate; to devote; as, to apply money to the payment of a debt.
3.
To make use of, declare, or pronounce, as suitable, fitting, or relative; as, to apply the testimony to the case; to apply an epithet to a person. "Yet God at last To Satan, first in sin, his doom applied."
4.
To fix closely; to engage and employ diligently, or with attention; to attach; to incline. "Apply thine heart unto instruction."
5.
To direct or address. (R.) "Sacred vows... applied to grisly Pluto."
6.
To betake; to address; to refer; used reflexively. "I applied myself to him for help."
7.
To busy; to keep at work; to ply. (Obs.) "She was skillful in applying his "humors.""
8.
To visit. (Obs.) "And he applied each place so fast."
Applied chemistry. See under Chemistry.
Applied mathematics. See under Mathematics.


Apply  v. i.  
1.
To suit; to agree; to have some connection, agreement, or analogy; as, this argument applies well to the case.
2.
To make request; to have recourse with a view to gain something; to make application. (to); to solicit; as, to apply to a friend for information.
3.
To ply; to move. (R.) "I heard the sound of an oar applying swiftly through the water."
4.
To apply or address one's self; to give application; to attend closely (to).





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... have told you what it does not mean, let me try to make plain just what it does mean. I shall use a very simple illustration which you can readily apply to the whole of industry for yourself. If it ordinarily takes a day to make a coat, if that is the average time taken, and it also takes on an average a day to make a table, then, also on an average, one coat will be worth just as much as one table. ...
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... boys.—The Reverend Septimus Mastrum, MA Oxon, receives a limited number of pupils of neglected education. Firm and kindly treatment. Extensive grounds. Healthy situation. For terms apply to the Reverend ...
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... The Samoans apply the term 'Tafito' to all natives of the Gilbert Group and other equatorial islands. The word is an abbreviation of Taputeauea (Drummond's Island), and 'Tafito' is synonymous for 'savage'—in ...
— Ridan The Devil And Other Stories - 1899 • Louis Becke
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... small gauge of ivory, based on the above measurements, which proved of great practical value in examining bows. The measurements he obtained by the above calculation apply to wood of medium density. He says, "For close and dense wood the dimensions should be somewhat diminished, or, what amounts practically to the same thing, the distance from the head should, for dense wood, ...
— The Bow, Its History, Manufacture and Use - 'The Strad' Library, No. III. • Henry Saint-George
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... that fire in my conscience which I persuaded them to beware of." At times, when he stood up to preach, blasphemies and evil doubts rushed into his mind, and he felt a strong desire to utter them aloud to his congregation; and at other seasons, when he was about to apply to the sinner some searching and fearful text of scripture, he was tempted to withhold it, on the ground that it condemned himself also; but, withstanding the suggestion of the tempter, to use his own simile, he bowed himself, like Samson, to condemn sin wherever he found it, though he brought ...
— Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 of 8 • Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
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