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Apply

verb

(past & past part. applied; pres. part. applying)

1.

Put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose. Synonyms: employ, use, utilise, utilize. "We only use Spanish at home" , "I can't use this tool" , "Apply a magnetic field here" , "This thinking was applied to many projects" , "How do you utilize this tool?" , "I apply this rule to get good results" , "Use the plastic bags to store the food" , "He doesn't know how to use a computer"

2.

Be pertinent or relevant or applicable. Synonyms: go for, hold. "This theory holds for all irrational numbers" , "The same rules go for everyone"

3.

Ask (for something). "She applied for college" , "Apply for a job"

4.

Apply to a surface. Synonym: put on. "Put on make-up!"

5.

Be applicable to; as to an analysis. Synonym: lend oneself.

6.

Give or convey physically. Synonym: give. "I gave him a punch in the nose"

7.

Avail oneself to. Synonyms: practice, use. "Practice a religion" , "Use care when going down the stairs" , "Use your common sense" , "Practice non-violent resistance"

8.

Ensure observance of laws and rules. Synonyms: enforce, implement.

9.

Refer (a word or name) to a person or thing.

10.

Apply oneself to.

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"Apply" Quotes from Famous Books

... now be permitted briefly to apply the preceding principles to two of the greatest controversies which have exercised the minds of men; that which relates to the existence of God, and that which relates to the truth of Christianity; in both of which, if we mistake not, man's position is ...

— Reason and Faith; Their Claims and Conflicts • Henry Rogers

... in youth of any wide designs on life, fond only of the more mechanical side of things, yet drifting as it were involuntarily into the possession of a world-formula which by dint of his extraordinary pertinacity he proceeded to apply to so many special cases that it made him a philosopher in spite of himself. He appears as modest enough, but with a curious vanity in some of his deficiencies,—his lack of desultory interests, ...

— Memories and Studies • William James

... political action is concerned, have been successfully repressed. And he takes occasion to introduce this particular fable repeatedly in similar connections. 'For who can hear that Fame, after the giants were destroyed, sprung up as their posthumous sister, and not apply it to the clamour of parties, and the seditious rumours which commonly fly about upon the quelling of insurrections. Or who, upon hearing that memorable expedition of the gods against the giants, when ...

— The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded • Delia Bacon

... that part as familiar. We have made the same fight here against the fearless woman as the savages made on the Amazon. The only thing we were never smart enough to apply was the moral of the Kipling story about the two greatest armies in the world: the men who believed that they could not die till their time came, against those who wanted to die as soon as possible. It was from one ...

— Nonsenseorship • G. G. Putnam

... sincerity and cunningness play their role in almost every sick room. And if the physician haughtily declares that he does not care for the methods of suggestion, it might justly be asked whether he can be a physician at all if he does not apply some suggestions; yes, if his very entrance into the sick room does not suggest relief and improvement from the start. The introduction of a serious study of psychology is the most immediate need of the medical curriculum. Instructorships in abnormal psychology ...

— Psychotherapy • Hugo Muensterberg

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