English English Dictionary

of Applot

To busy; to keep at work; to ply.

To betake; to address; to refer; -- used reflexively.

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.

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.

To apply or address one's self; to give application; to attend closely (to).

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.

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.

To ply; to move.

To visit.

To suit; to agree; to have some connection, agreement, or analogy; as, this argument applies well to the case.

To fix closely; to engage and employ diligently, or with attention; to attach; to incline.

To direct or address.

of Apply

A passing tone preceding an essential tone, and borrowing the time it occupies from that; a short auxiliary or grace note one degree above or below the principal note unless it be of the same harmony; -- generally indicated by a note of smaller size, as in the illustration above. It forms no essential part of the harmony.

To furnish in all points; to provide with everything necessary by way of equipment; to equip; to fit out.

To point at by way, or for the purpose, of censure or commendation; to arraign.

To direct, designate, or limit; to make or direct a new disposition of, by virtue of a power contained in a conveyance; -- said of an estate already conveyed.

To ordain; to determine; to arrange.

To assign, designate, or set apart by authority.