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Apply   /əplˈaɪ/   Listen
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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... superiority to other craft, a rule of navigation thoroughly believed in by some captains, but not yet openly followed, was announced by the steamship company to apply to the Titan: She would steam at full speed in fog, storm, and sunshine, and on the Northern Lane Route, winter and summer, for the following good and substantial reasons: First, that if another craft should ...
— The Wreck of the Titan - or, Futility • Morgan Robertson

... to what was said, and several of the Chiefs expressed their satisfaction at not being asked to meet us on the morrow. The Commissioners then told them there were rations provided for them by the Government, and that those who were in need of provisions might apply to certain of the Police officers detailed to see ...
— The Treaties of Canada with The Indians of Manitoba - and the North-West Territories • Alexander Morris

... that editorial prerogative which I most willingly recognise, but that the omissions seemed to me, and to one or two persons who had seen the article in its original state, to be made on a principle which, however sound in itself, does not I think apply to compositions of this description. The passages omitted were the most pointed and ornamented sentences in the review. Now, for high and grave works, a history for example, or a system of political or moral philosophy, ...
— Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay • George Otto Trevelyan

... having elicited from Mr. Bernard Shaw one of the most brilliant pages in English dramatic criticism. The hero of this play, after an adventurous youth in Mexico, has gone to the bar, but gets no briefs, and is therefore unable to marry a lady who announces that no suitor need apply who has less than L5000 a year. One fine day Dick receives from Mexico the will of an old comrade, which purports to leave to him, absolutely, half a million dollars, gold; but the will is accompanied by a letter, in which the ...
— Play-Making - A Manual of Craftsmanship • William Archer

... have always told them this would not do; that the whole South would then come against us and kill us off, as the Indians have been killed off. I have always told them the best way was for us to apply to the Government for protection, and let ...
— A Letter to Hon. Charles Sumner, with 'Statements' of Outrages upon Freedmen in Georgia • Hamilton Wilcox Pierson


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