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The work of applying something
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application
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb. 2 The thing applied. 3 The act of applying as a means; the employment of means to accomplish an end; specific use. 4 The act of directing or ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "the bringing of something to bear on something else," from Old French aplicacion (14c.), from Latin applicationem (nominative applicatio ) "a joining to, an attaching oneself to," noun of action from past participle stem of applicare (see apply ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Application \Ap`pli*ca"tion\, n. [L. applicatio, fr. applicare: cf. F. application. See Apply .] The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb. The thing applied. He invented a new application ...
Usage examples of application.
In a time like ours, when we are primarily concerned with the practical application of scientific discoveries, we are mostly accustomed to regard such flights of thought from a past age as nothing but the unessential accompaniment of youthful, immature science, and to smile at them accordingly as historical curiosities.
For all wounds, bruises, sprains, bee-stings, insect and snake-bites, frost-bites, chilblains, caked breast, swollen glands, rheumatism, and, in short, for any and all ailments, whether afflicting man or beast, requiring a direct external application, either to allay inflammation or soothe pain, the Extract of Smart-weed cannot be excelled.
Old Testament in the religious history of the world, lies just in this, that, in order to be maintained at all, it required the application of the allegoric method, that is, a definite proportion of Greek ideas, and that, on the other hand, it opposed the strongest barrier to the complete hellenising of Christianity.
The allopathic differs from the other schools, mainly in the application of remedies.
Sunstrand Power and Light utility, a nontechnical explanation of the processes of DT-cycle lithiumized annular fusion and its applications in domestic energy production.
Nontechnical introduction to theories of annular enhancement and zone-plating and their applications in high-resolution laser holography.
It was the antonym of nymphomaniac, a word with numerous applications but no real definition.
It is a clumsy and distorted application of the principle of apperception, of going from the known to the unknown.
One of those weapons, which had a wide application potential, was the laser - light amplification through stimulated energy radiation - the device the army found in the Roswell spacecraft and would later develop as a weapon in cooperation with Hughes Aircraft.
I believed it was through the application and amplification of low frequency brain waves that the EBEs navigated the craft that we found at Roswell, our implementation of this technology might enable us also to use our brains to control the flight of objects.
The frequent vomiting made it impossible to administer remedies by the stomach, and, in spite of hypodermic injections and external application of analeptics, the boy died fifty hours after operation.
As a soothing, astringing and healing application to the affected parts we prepare an Ointment that has acquired great fame for the prompt relief which it affords in all ordinary cases.
Governor of some West Indian dependency, whether as a reward for having accepted the baronetcy, or as an application of a theory that West Indian islands get the Governors they deserve, it would have been hard to say.
In some cases the idiosyncrasy to belladonna is so marked that violent symptoms follow the application of the ordinary belladonna plaster.
Golden mentions two cases in which the application of belladonna ointment to the breasts caused suppression of the secretion of milk.