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Definition of Apply

Apply 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 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 fix closely; to engage and employ diligently, or with attention; to attach; to incline. To direct or address. To betake; to address; to refer; -- used reflexively. To busy; to keep at work; to ply. To visit. To suit; to agree; to have some connection, agreement, or analogy; as, this argument applies well to the case. 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 apply or address one's self; to give application; to attend closely (to). Related Definitions: Address, Adjust, Agree, Agreement, An, Analogy, And, Another, Application, Apply, Appropriate, Argument, As, At, Attach, Attend, Attention, Betake, Body, Busy, Case, Closely, Connection, Debt, Declare, Devote, Diligently, Direct, Diseased, Employ, Engage, Epithet, Fitting, Fix, For, Friend, Gain, Give, Hand, Have, In, Incline, Information, Keep, Lay, Make, Move, Money, Of, One, Or, Part, Particular, Payment, Person, Place, Ply, Pronounce, Purpose, Put, Recourse, Refer, Relative, Request, Self, Solicit, Some, Something, Suit, Suitable, Testimony, The, Thing, This, To, Use, Used, View, Visit, Well, With, Work

Apply Quotations There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply. Josh Billings Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. Francis Bacon One always has time enough, if one will apply it well. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Apply Translations apply in Afrikaans is toepas apply in Dutch is aanwenden, doorvoeren apply in French is applique, solicitez, solicitent, appliquent apply in German is anwenden apply in Italian is applicare, esasperare apply in Latin is admoveo, adicio apply in Portuguese is aplique apply in Spanish is usar de, solicitar, emplear

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