noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a passport application
▪ the processing of passport applications
a visa application
▪ U.S. immigration authorities have turned down their visa application.
Application forms
▪ Application forms are available from the college.
application service provider
application software
▪ We need to ensure that the application software on both the PC and the Macintosh produces compatible files.
database system/software/application etc
process an application/claim/transaction etc
▪ All university applications are processed through this system.
submit an application/claim/proposal etc
▪ All applications must be submitted by Monday.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
new
▪ More than 70 pen functions are supported allowing application developers to create exciting new pen applications.
▪ Do you need new applications software for your Windows 95 bundle?
▪ The new compiler uses application program information, collected during dynamic program execution, to drive its optimisation process.
▪ But mastery of helium-3 / deuterium fusion may permit other entirely new applications.
▪ And the new cheque card application?
▪ More books are planned to keep computer users updated as new applications come on the market, she said.
▪ Although 7,000 new applications were lodged last month, 11,340 were processed.
▪ Verio will begin beta trials of the new application service with customers by the end of 1999.
other
▪ The methods have other applications in nursing.
▪ From here you can set up other applications to launch from within Q&A;
▪ The technique is likely to have other applications in the electronics industry.
▪ It does not generally support dragging-and-dropping files on to other applications nor can its drag-and-drop be tailored.
▪ You can also run other applications from a HyperShow.
▪ It is supported by two Subordinate Committees, one examining the export applications and the other the technology applications.
▪ I mention this for those who might want to use the circuit in other applications.
▪ They are simply a much more urgent requirement than in most other areas of application.
particular
▪ The right mat provides the optimum combination of safety, comfort, drainage, quality and durability for each particular application.
▪ The knowledge base, on the other hand, contains all of the information that is specific to a particular application.
▪ A thesaurus is normally tailored to meet the specifications of a particular application.
▪ S.-supported facilities carry traffic other than that dedicated to the particular application that justified the link.
▪ I should also value, and quickly, advice and a possible letter of support for a particular job application.
▪ Software suitably designed for the particular application is employed to control the user's interaction with the multimedia data on the disc.
▪ Microphones are designed in various styles and sizes according to the particular application.
▪ The individual board regulations may differ and should be checked in relation to particular procedures for application.
practical
▪ At the same time, pupils are also exposed to one practical application of the microcomputer which will be relevant outside school.
▪ The following chapters provide step-by-step instructions for practical applications.
▪ Furthermore, the theory of rhetoric can have practical application.
▪ The ability to relate theoretical aspects of the program development to practical teaching application in classrooms and library media centers. 5.
▪ Models based on soap films have many practical applications in the investigation of minimum surface areas.
▪ The observational abilities of the ancients were to have practical application beyond those of time-reckoning and attempt to predict future events.
▪ Reports to date are interesting, if somewhat inconclusive, and without immediate practical application.
▪ Others see even more practical applications for these virtual places.
■ NOUN
computer
▪ It should be noted however, that many computer applications may not require recognition of pen input.
▪ After learning one computer application, she discovered that it was easy to learn more.
▪ This means that the data analysis stage is as crucial as the implementation stage of the computer applications.
▪ Structured documents messaging consists of the automated interchange of standardized and approved messages between computer applications, via telecommunications lines.
▪ They have excelled in leading-edge technologies for military and computer applications.
▪ The curriculum should include courses in office technology, accounting, business mathematics, computer applications, and business law.
▪ It connects computer applications, merges reports, builds pictures, develops concepts.
▪ Locally and nationally, the expanding software and computer applications industrial sector offers challenging and rewarding employment prospects.
database
▪ Then there's the mountain of existing database applications.
▪ Application hosting services that make business-focused software and database applications available to customers via the Internet.
▪ How, then, will digital multimedia influence archiving and other database applications?
▪ The screens are very well laid out which is essential for any database application.
▪ Word processing, spreadsheet and database applications in development.
▪ It provides a set of user-accessible threads to accelerate input-output and concurrency, particularly for database applications.
▪ It isn't as though database applications aren't suited to the Windows environment.
development
▪ DataCom relational database and Telon, its own application development environment.
▪ Distributed Relational Database Architecture also makes information access, data modification and application development more manageable, the company claims.
▪ Shipping now, Nomad offers an environment for client/server application development and reporting.
▪ Shipping now, Nomad for Unix offers an environment for client-server application development and reporting.
▪ The other change is support for object-orientated technology within the application development environment.
form
▪ Candidates for either the Woolley or the Horsman Fellowship should write to the Principal enclosing a s.a.e.for an application form.
▪ Apply by completing the box at the bottom of the application form.
▪ Most employers will only ask you to repeat this information in a standard application form anyway.
▪ Simply fill in the application form and return it to your branch.
▪ With effect from 1992 entry this will be a joint UCCA/PCAS application form.
▪ Below is an application form for the Dinner Dance tickets.
▪ If you do not already hold a valid passport, application forms may be obtained from the Post Office.
▪ My application form went off to the town hall first class, posted in Darlington on the morning of Friday March 20.
job
▪ I have also, since her departure, caught up on the job applications correspondence, which in itself takes time.
▪ There were formal job applications to fill out.
▪ I should also value, and quickly, advice and a possible letter of support for a particular job application.
▪ Nevertheless, Toyota was swamped with job applications.
▪ All evening I refreshed my memory with theoretical skills on dental mechanics and wrote my job application letter.
▪ Dear Help Wanted: A job application I have bothers me.
▪ He's made sixty-three job applications, and had fifteen interviews.
▪ Body Shop staff adopt a young unemployed person on a one-to-one basis, helping with job applications, for example.
planning
▪ So far no planning application has been made. 4.
▪ Schooners Restaurant, in Bondgate, has been the subject of planning applications since 1989 when the restaurant closed.
▪ The planning application, submitted by East Hampshire District Council, was agreed by the local planners last week.
▪ How to comment on a proposal: When you make observations on a planning application you should only comment on planning grounds.
▪ Amongst the items on the agenda was a planning application for Chapel Row.
programming
▪ They intend to give us some notion of what they are when they roll out the application programming interface in 90 days.
▪ For other developers there's an application programming interface that gives access to the lock manager.
▪ Uniplex says it will provide application programming interfaces and gateways between onGO and its existing software to insure migration and coexistence.
▪ The upgrade also includes a single-function application programming interface to help developers add HyperHelp to their applications.
▪ Mac applications should run in an X-Window on any PowerOpen application programming interface-compliant implementation on a PowerPC system.
software
▪ The money will be put towards the purchase of personal computers for running chemistry software applications.
▪ In this chapter, we will first provide an overview of the different parts of a software application architecture.
▪ The agents transform isolated software applications into modular building blocks for creating a coherent networked system.
▪ Research and development of new distributed network techniques and software applications 2.
▪ Enabling software, which is usually bought by corporations, helps users to organize information and create their own software applications.
▪ As a result, enterprise networks, distributed network management, and unusual software applications were implemented in parallel worldwide.
▪ A government worker took courses in various software applications and got to be the expert in her unit.
■ VERB
accept
▪ She requires to be cleared medically before the treatment centre can accept her application.
▪ An honorable discharge would mean that any reserve unit with openings would have to accept her application to fly.
allow
▪ The chairman will consider the paper claims and decide whether to allow the application.
▪ We have even developed theories to justify these distortions by teaching that the high elbow allows greater application of force.
▪ It does, however, allow complete interactive applications to be created using an extremely simple and easily mastered command set.
▪ Liken allows Mac applications to run on Unix stations in an X Window.
▪ Multi-tasking, on the other hand, allows more than one application to be active and working simultaneously.
▪ The product now allows users to develop applications on target machines and then graphically display them on Unix workstations or X-Terminals.
▪ CLE-I allows the application to take part in both of these phases, which are interleaved, as follows.
consider
▪ The board took four off-sale licences in the locality into account when considering an application for a public house licence.
▪ Before considering the possible applications of the dynamical transition paradigm, it is necessary to clearly delineate this restricted domain of application.
▪ Where an applicant is convicted, the licensing board may refuse to consider the application with which the conviction was concerned.
▪ The 1832 crisis in South Carolina offers another convenient vantage point from which to consider the uneven application of federal military power.
▪ For example, consider an application involving an interactive video system.
▪ In chapters 11, 12 and 13 we consider the application of such an understanding.
▪ This should be distinguished from the Appeal Committee which considers applications for leave to appeal.
▪ Perth and Kinross District Council are considering this application, which is being strongly opposed by the local community.
develop
▪ There are projected outlets, too, for new, high-purity silicates currently being developed for applications in high technology.
▪ However, this application will illustrate in detail other techniques you can adopt in developing an application-specific neural network.
▪ Secondly, the project will develop further application of these models in the social sciences.
▪ We wanted them to develop new applications from scratch, applications that would closely follow our interface guidelines.
▪ A set of application binary interfaces are currently being developed by NeXT to provide application interoperability between Intel Corp and PA-RISC platforms.
▪ When these machines first became available, there was scant interest by manufacturers in developing country markets and applications.
▪ This method is the first of its kind, and the ministry is considering developing it for commercial application.
▪ The courts have developed rules governing the application of the First Amendment to each of these categories.
fill
▪ Application forms Sometimes you will be required to fill in an application form which will be used to select candidates for interview.
▪ During those terrible months after getting his pink slip, he filled out endless application forms.
▪ Please read the notes before filling in the application form on pages 3 and 4.
▪ And they push and prod them to do everything from filling out college applications to finishing their science projects.
▪ It could allow only 800 posts to be filled out of more than 1,700 applications nationwide.
▪ Since January, those applying for loans up to $ 100, 000 need only fill out a one-page application.
▪ Simply fill in the application form and return it to your branch.
▪ Besides, she was busy writing letters and filling out applications for grad school.
make
▪ It explains who should make an application and who will automatically be considered for help.
▪ Interested parties are required to make formal applications by Jan. 25, in a process likely to last several months.
▪ Recommendation for exemption have been made in response to 16 applications.
▪ Citrix Systems Inc., for example, develops and sells client-server software to make Microsoft Windows applications more effective.
▪ This fusion of law and policy makes problematic the application of the legal principles relating to treaties and third parties.
▪ The householder makes the application and he/she must also be elderly.
▪ He made applications and was regularly turned down.
plan
▪ The partners in the development have started a public consultation process ahead of lodging the planning application.
▪ Three days prior to that, planning applications were submitted by the mining companies.
▪ The client has drawn up a detailed planning application that is due to be submitted by the end of this month.
process
▪ There they are tricked into handing over their passports under the ruse that the men require them to process their visa applications.
▪ Some paradigms are intended especially for signal processing applications.
▪ In the past, however, insufficient priority has been given to processing such applications.
▪ Local sheriffs and police departments then have up to six months to process applications.
▪ The Department of Employment has now agreed and is processing her application.
▪ Other name and course order lists are found useful in general library administration such as processing external readership applications for Polytechnic students.
▪ Make it compulsory or at least encourage lenders to process mortgage applications within two weeks.
▪ In London, the Home Office confirmed that it was processing applications for leave to remain on behalf of the three.
receive
▪ We must receive your application on or before that date.
▪ Since last July, the department has received more than 100 applications to install pay phones, Broxtermann said.
▪ Most people will receive an application form, and then a regret letter after they have returned it.
▪ The city received hundreds of applications for the panel.
▪ By the end of October we had received some 38,800 principal applications during this calendar year.
▪ Last year, the group received 15 applications and accepted two.
▪ If the Society does not receive an application for renewal by the renewal date the Society may cancel that person's registration.
▪ Mrs Ruth Wilson will now receive the planning applications. 3.
refuse
▪ Gwynedd County Council officers had recommended refusing the application.
▪ The 1976 Act also makes a radical change as regards the grounds for granting or refusing an application for a licence.
▪ The Parish council would, therefore, strongly urge your committee to refuse this application.
▪ Where an applicant is convicted, the licensing board may refuse to consider the application with which the conviction was concerned.
▪ Although district councils will have more scope to refuse applications, Labour councillors fear some policy controls could shift to central Government.
▪ The Sub-Committee, after bearing in mind all the relevant points, have refused the application.
▪ Accordingly, I refuse her application to be joined as a party to this action.
▪ A justices' clerk has power to grant or refuse an application for transfer.
reject
▪ His views were echoed by the sub-committee which twice rejected the couple's application.
▪ Once users became accustomed to the standard conventions of Macintosh computing, they would reject applications that flouted those standards.
▪ But Mr Justice Buckley rejected the application in April.
▪ Magistrates rejected an application for the press to be excluded from the hearing.
▪ A City of London County Court judge rejected the jail application on a legal technicality.
▪ In the meantime it's up to the city council to decide whether to accept or reject the planning application.
▪ Croydon rejected their application, advocating some-race adoption.
require
▪ For this is not a journey of peace and tranquillity but a struggle requiring constant effort and application.
▪ Interested parties are required to make formal applications by Jan. 25, in a process likely to last several months.
▪ Since no external coding is required, only minimal debugging and testing are required for application generation, according to the company.
▪ URLs are universal in that they provide access to a wide range of network services which required separate applications in the past.
▪ Applications by letter are now generally accepted in cases where no appointment is required.
▪ Introduction Continuous speech processing requires the application of very many sources of knowledge in order to decode the utterance.
▪ The questions may be simple enough not to require the application of the whole process.
▪ It requires the application of effort and, to some degree at least, the exercise of skill and knowledge.
run
▪ It says the two complete kernels will be able to sit side-by-side on Windows systems and run their respective applications.
▪ Demands for faster processors with larger memory to run newer applications software are increasing.
▪ As from the time the application to set aside is made, the time limited for compliance ceases to run.
▪ First, it will only run 16-bit Windows 3.1 applications.
submit
▪ They intend to submit funding applications to the Global Environment Facility.
▪ Under the revised plans Nirex now aims to submit its application by the autumn of 1993.
▪ The plan was scrapped when magistrates refused a drinks licence for the £1.25m complex, but Anchor has submitted a second application.
▪ After Chadha submitted his application for suspension of deportation, the deportation hearing was resumed on February 7, 1974.
▪ Now it has submitted a new application and the council is supporting it once more.
▪ However, official sources in Dublin have advised fans planning to make the trip to submit travel-document applications immediately.
support
▪ Second, it can't support applications such as Video for Windows that build their own extensions to the Windows application binary interface.
▪ More than 70 pen functions are supported allowing application developers to create exciting new pen applications.
▪ This is accomplished in the Web by using a core browser or application that is augmented by supporting applications.
▪ The first will be for a standard way to support multi-media applications under Unix.
▪ Middlesbrough Council and some local residents groups are supporting the Anchor application for a drinks licence.
▪ Meanwhile, promoters of major projects are increasingly producing their own appraisals to support applications.
▪ The Commissioner supported the application and a solicitor was appointed.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
ease of application/use etc
▪ Choose the push-fit kind for ease of use. 4.
▪ Layout clear for ease of use.
▪ New methods must be carefully evaluated according to the criteria of cost and ease of application.
▪ The old trade-off between ease of use and security must therefore be addressed.
▪ This was rejected on grounds of ease of use and familiarity with the 100 percent marking scale.
▪ When selecting any kind of baby product, the essential requirements to consider are comfort, safety and ease of use.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A computer has a wide range of applications for businesses.
▪ a graphics application
▪ New students will learn how to use word- processing and spreadsheet applications.
▪ scientific research and its practical applications
▪ Since I left university I've sent off nearly fifty job applications.
▪ The first two banks Williams visited denied her application for a loan.
▪ The larger bottle contains approximately 25 applications.
▪ The possible applications of this invention are limitless.
▪ We're pleased to announce that your application for membership has been accepted.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ His $ 400, 000 loan application is still pending before the federal Small Business Administration.
▪ If they have, this may prejudice the application even where the test was negative.
▪ Initially much of the Unix-based software was for technical applications but more and more commercial packages are emerging.
▪ Its best known application is Cardizem, for treating hypertension.
▪ Microsoft faces three main challenges: the rise of the Internet, slowing applications revenues and the threat of break-up.
▪ The surface could be built up to some extent by the application of thick and successive layers.
▪ Until now, each parallel computer has been so different that users had to re-write applications every time they changed machines.