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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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"Apply" Quotes from Famous Books

... sail in twelve or fifteen days: such as may be desirous of taking passage in said ship may depend on being genteelly accommodated. For further particulars apply to Col. Wm. Deakins, or the Captain ...

— A Portrait of Old George Town • Grace Dunlop Ecker

... confidence, they finally agreed that Schrotter, being a practical man, and conversant with the ways of business and the world, should take the management of the fortune upon himself, but that Wilhelm should receive a monthly sum of fifteen hundred marks out of the income to apply as he thought best to the relief of the needy. The other half of the income was at Schrotter's disposal, who put it, of course, to the same use. In his capacity as member of the deputation for the poor, and also as parish doctor, he came in ...

— The Malady of the Century • Max Nordau

... are right and proper, I would unhesitatingly answer, there are. If an oppressed nation has a right to appeal to arms in defence of its liberty and the happiness of its people, there can be no argument used in support of such appeal, which will not apply with equal force to individuals. How many cases are there, that might be enumerated, where there is no tribunal to do justice to an oppressed and deeply wronged individual? If he be subjected to a tame submission to insult and ...

— The Code of Honor • John Lyde Wilson

... only by the public quarrel, but by their private emolument. Reduced by these losses, the Samnites sued to the dictator for peace, and, after they had engaged to supply each of his soldiers with a suit of clothes and a year's pay, being ordered to apply to the senate, they answered, that they would follow the dictator, committing their cause wholly to his integrity and honour. On this the troops were withdrawn ...

— The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 • Titus Livius

... height of fame. The crowd which watched the experiment was wild with enthusiasm; the Montgolfiers elated with the first considerable victory over the force of gravity. They had demonstrated a principle and made their names immortal. What remained was to develop that principle and apply it to practical ends. That development, however, proceeded for something more than a century before anything like a ...

— Aircraft and Submarines - The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day - Uses of War's Newest Weapons • Willis J. Abbot

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