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Meaning apply meaning

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apply Verb

— If a rule, a principle, a law, etc. applies, it has some effect on the situation. The new anti-smoking law applies only to public buildings. I understand the idea, but I don't think it applies here. — If you apply for something, you formally say that you want it or you want to do it. After high school, he applied to three universities and was accepted by all of them. You have to go to the government office to apply for a passport. — If you apply something such as an idea, rule, formula, or piece of information, etc., you use it to do something, work with something, or handle a situation. I found it hard to apply the principles I learned at school to the problems I faced at work. You can't just take one rule and apply it in every situation. I applied the old saying "what goes around, comes around" to the situation and stopped myself from being mean when I didn't need to. — If you apply yourself, you focus on something and work hard at it. He's really smart, but he just has a hard time applying himself to his school work. — If you apply mathx/math to mathy/math, you put or spread mathx/math on mathy/math. It's dangerous to apply makeup while driving a car. Apply pressure to the cut until the bleeding stops. — If you apply something, you turn it on, usually by pushing something. Apply the brakes gently to stop the car without sliding. — If a word applies, it is used to mean a particular thing. The word resident applies to anyone living there.

apply

— verb (= use, utilize, utilise, employ) put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose use your head! we only use Spanish at home I can't use this tool Apply a magnetic field here This thinking was applied to many projects How do you utilize this tool? I apply this rule to get good results use the plastic bags to store the food He doesn't know how to use a computer — verb (= hold, go for) be pertinent or relevant or applicable The same laws apply to you! This theory holds for all irrational numbers The same rules go for everyone — verb ask (for something) He applied for a leave of absence She applied for college apply for a job — verb (= put on) apply to a surface She applied paint to the back of the house Put on make-up! — verb (= lend oneself) be applicable to; as to an analysis This theory lends itself well to our new data — verb (= give) give or convey physically She gave him First Aid I gave him a punch in the nose — verb refer (a word or name) to a person or thing He applied this racial slur to me! — verb (= practice, use) avail oneself to apply a principle practice a religion use care when going down the stairs use your common sense practice non-violent resistance — verb ensure observance of laws and rules Apply the rules to everyone — verb apply oneself to Please apply yourself to your homework

Synonyms apply synonyms

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Topics apply topics

What do people use apply to talk about?
Language and thought Want

Request
Person Healthy Treat disease

Medicine
Person Body functions

Bleed, blood
Language and thought Think Mind

Think about
Daily life Adornment

Cosmetics
Physical actions Physical impact

Press
Grammar Connected with, related Dependency relations

Relations involving correspondences

Conjugation apply conjugation

How do you conjugate apply?

apply · verb

Examples apply examples

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Simple sentences

Did you apply for a job in this company?
Does it apply to our family as well?
You should apply for that post.
If I were you, I would apply for the scholarship.
Were I you, I would apply for the job.
Those regulations all apply to everyone without a single exception.
The laws apply to everyone irrespective of race, creed or color.
The law doesn't apply to this case.
The law does not apply to this case.
We can apply the discovery to various uses.
The rule does not apply in our case.
This does not apply to students.
Can we apply this rule in this case?
What you have said doesn't apply to you.
You need your parents' permission if you are going to apply for that.
If you want this job, you must apply for it by tomorrow.
This law does not apply in Japan.
You can't apply this theory to this case.
This rule does not apply.
This rule doesn't apply to every case.

Movie subtitles

You want to apply to the special zone?
Um, I was wondering if maybe uh, the things and stuff you seem to be focusing on are the things and stuff that apply to the reason we are here.
There's a lot you don't know, Detective, like how to apply eyeliner or who won Best Picture in 1984.
I'm gonna take these and apply a fine-tooth comb with a glass of Merlot.
We advise you to apply to the authority concerned.
It don't apply to tramps like you.
I was so scared that first day, I walked around the block four times before I had the courage to even come and apply for this job.
Martial. I was just gonna apply for a job.
Could you apply all your fine and honorable rules to yourself, punish yourself as calmly and completely as you have Blackie?
That you couldn't apply your rules of conduct to yourself.
And I shall apply it with an even hand, of course, but most where it is most required.
I would like to ask your permission to apply my method here at the clinic on a few lepers that your consider lost.
We apply our new method there.
I find it disagreeably necessary to apply to General Gage for the assistance of His Majesty's troops.
Tell Mr. Emile to come up immediately. so that I may apply the stamp.
I might even apply for a warrant for your arrest.
So there can be no accusations of German barbarism, I decided to apply French regulations.
It's too bad you apply your skills to the wrong things.
Which doesn't apply to the schpountz.
Congratulatory messages apply only to special occasions.
I do, however, take issue violently when women try to apply that same reasoning to the rights we fi. Finally won 22 years ago.
We want to apply for a job.
We must apply hot compresses.
Perhaps if you'd apply in writing.
Apply the cords!
I'm gonna apply bilateral carotid sinus massage, triggering a vasovagal response.
Now you've got to apply some powder.
But, uh, does it apply to everything you say?
You have to apply soon.
My dear sir, surely you can apply your energies to something more productive.
There's 25 years before the statute of limitations apply.
Lorentz's equations do apply to their full extent.
Place to apply is the nearest recruiting center.
I wish to apply for leave.
And I told you, General. that your orders do not apply to me or any civilian.
And there's only one scholarship that would do him any good and he's too young to apply for it.

News and current affairs

Even though new standards would apply to suppliers from all exporting countries, compliance costs usually vary, meaning that those less equipped to meet higher standards could suffer.
Germany urgently needs this kind of optimism, because, unfortunately, two universal principles will continue to apply in the future: first, the winter will return, and, second, the ball is round and the next game is always the most difficult.
Finally, donor countries must apply the lessons learned in restoring the war-ravaged states of the former Yugoslavia.
It is precisely the failure to apply these values in areas such as Palestine or Iraq that has made - and can still make - countless Arabs vehemently anti-American.
To cope with this deficiency, some scientists have tried to reinvent the tools of one level in order to apply them to another.
The rule should apply both to debtor and creditor countries.
In fact, there are millions of reasons - all of them suffering needlessly - to apply the brakes.
The same should apply to Turkey.
Other criminologists argue that this finding, if well-founded, should then apply to any criminal law: every day, criminal prohibitions are infringed; yet if we did not have such prohibitions, crimes would be even more rampant.
Companies that do not meet the new gender rules, which also apply to the public sector - risk being dissolved by court order.
Politicians and lawyers may dislike this solution, because it undermines the EU's principle of social inclusion for employment and resembles arrangements that currently apply to EU citizens who live in other member countries without working there.
But this does not apply to China, Japan, or India, whose exports are diversified.
But this economic logic does not apply in the case of increases in oil prices.
With its penchant for constant experimentation and improvement, one might even hope that China will draw lessons and apply them to all of its developing-country lending.
If the British unions wanted to be ethically consistent, they should apply the same strategies to universities in the numerous countries where human rights are brutally abused and free speech suppressed.
Some suggest that this is yet another example of Western institutions applying to Africa principles that they don't apply to themselves.
But do current account constraints apply to major, financially stable countries?
For example, PISA assessments have revealed that, while Japanese students excel at reproducing what they have learned, they often struggle when asked to extrapolate from that knowledge and apply it creatively.
Both books apply to the past the lens that Argentines are accustomed to using when they look at the present: the lens of the press.
Like many other people, I tend to believe that anyone paid more than me is prima facie over-rewarded, but I know this is not the most rigorous test I could apply.
So far, so good - except that this story, too, does not apply to Britain.
Next year, she will expand the hut, and will eventually apply for land and begin to build a brick house.
If we apply to catastrophic risks the same prudent analysis that leads us to buy insurance - multiplying probability by consequences - we would surely prioritize measures to reduce this kind of extreme risk.

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