apply
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
apply/əˈplʌɪ/
▶verb (applies, applying, applied)
- 1 make a formal request.
■ put oneself forward as a candidate for a job.
- 2 be relevant.
■ bring into operation or use.
- 3 put (a substance) on a surface.
- 4 (apply oneself) work hard.
– derivatives
applier noun.
applier noun.
– origin ME: from OFr. aplier, from L. applicat-, applicare ‘fold, fasten to’.
'apply' also found in these Oxford entries:
adhibit
- appeal
- applicable
- appliqué
- apposite
- brush
- clever
- closure
- condition
- cover
- dab
- decorate
- dress
- dubbin
- engine
- entrench
- exercise
- exert
- go
- guillotine
- hunker
- illegal
- impress
- intelligence
- irrigate
- jam
- knuckle
- limewash
- lubricate
- make
- manure
- marl
- noose
- overwater
- paint
- perfume
- phase
- plaster
- plea
- ply
- pomade
- pot
- poultice
- powder
- press
- pre-tension
- probang
- pulse
- reapply
