Word Meanings - APPLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

attach to; ad + plicare to fold, to twist together. See Applicant, 1. To lay or place; to put or adjust ; -- 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

Additional info about word: APPLY

attach to; ad + plicare to fold, to twist together. See Applicant, 1. To lay or place; to put or adjust ; -- 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. Dryden. 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. Milton. 4. To fix closely; to engage and employ diligently, or with attention; to attach; to incline. Apply thine heart unto instruction. Prov. xxiii. 12. 5. To direct or address. Sacred vows . . . applied to grisly Pluto. Pope. 6. To betake; to address; to refer; -- used reflexively. I applied myself to him for help. Johnson. 7. To busy; to keep at work; to ply. She was skillful in applying his "humors." Sir P. Sidney. 8. To visit. And he applied each place so fast. Chapman. Applied chemistry. See under Chemistry. -- Applied mathematics. See under Mathematics.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of APPLY)

• Adduce
• Allege
• apply
• cite
• advance
• offer
• introduce
• produce
• add
• import
• name
• mention
• quote
• Appoint
• Fix
• determine
• instal
• allot
• order
• prescribe
• institute
• employ
• apportion
• designate
• assign
• intrust
• invest
• ordain
• arrange
• Attach
• Fasten
• append
• fix
• subjoin
• annex
• unite
• conciliate
• tie
• connect
• conjoin
• attract
• win
• bind
• Attribute Refer
• associate
• ascribe
• charge
• impute
• Dedicate
• Devote
• consecrate
• set
• separate
• hallow
• set apart

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of APPLY)

• Retard
• hinder
• withhold
• withdraw
• recall
• depress
• degrade
• suppress
• oppose
• retreat
• decrease
• Misname
• miscall
• misdesignate
• misindicate
• hint
• suggest
• shadow
• adumbrate

Related words: (words related to APPLY)

• ASSIGNEE
  In England, the persons appointed, under a commission of bankruptcy, to manage the estate of a bankrupt for the benefit of his creditors. (more info) A person to whom an assignment is made; a person appointed or deputed by another to do some act,
• ANNEX
  to; ad + nectere to tie, to fasten together, akin to Skr. nah to 1. To join or attach; usually to subjoin; to affix; to append; -- followed by to. "He annexed a codicil to a will." Johnson. 2. To join or add, as a smaller thing to a greater. He
• HALLOW
  To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
• INVESTIGATION
  The act of investigating; the process of inquiring into or following up; research; study; inquiry, esp. patient or thorough inquiry or examination; as, the investigations of the philosopher and the mathematician; the investigations of the judge,
• UNITERABLE
  Not iterable; incapable of being repeated. "To play away an uniterable life." Sir T. Browne.
• OFFER
  ferre to bear, bring. The English word was influenced by F. offrir to 1. To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up. Thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for
• SUGGESTER
  One who suggests. Beau. & Fl.
• CONNECTOR
  One who, or that which, connects; as: A flexible tube for connecting the ends of glass tubes in pneumatic experiments. A device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact.
• CONSECRATE
  Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred. They were assembled in that consecrate place. Bacon.
• SUGGEST
  1. To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects. Some ideas . . . are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection. Locke. 2. To propose with difference or modesty;
• CHARGEANT
  Burdensome; troublesome. Chaucer.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• SHADOWY
  1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. "Shadowy verdure." Fenton. This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. Shak. 2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past." Longfellow. 3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light. The moon
• ALLOTTABLE
  Capable of being allotted.
• OFFERER
  One who offers; esp., one who offers something to God in worship. Hooker.
• IMPORTUNELY
  In an importune manner.
• ALLOTRIOPHAGY
  A depraved appetite; a desire for improper food.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• SUGGESTRESS
  A woman who suggests. "The suggestress of suicides." De Quincey.
• SUGGESTION
  Information without oath; an entry of a material fact or circumstance on the record for the information of the court, at the death or insolvency of a party. (more info) 1. The act of suggesting; presentation of an idea. 2. That which is suggested;
• FORESHADOW
  To shadow or typi Dryden.
• UNEMPLOYMENT
  Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.
• INDEVOTE
  Not devoted. Bentley. Clarendon.
• SADDUCEEISM; SADDUCISM
  The tenets of the Sadducees.
• INSEPARATE
  Not separate; together; united. Shak.
• MISCHARGE
  To charge erroneously, as in account. -- n.
• DECONSECRATE
  To deprive of sacredness; to secularize. -- De*con`se*cra"tion, n.