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English
Etymology
From Late Middle English applicacioun, borrowed from Old French aplicacion (French application), from Latin applicātiōnem, accusative singular of applicātiō (“attachment; application, inclination”), from applicō (“join to, attach; apply”).
Pronunciation
Noun
application (countable and uncountable, plural applications)
- The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense
The application of this cream should reduce the swelling.
- The substance applied.
1857, John Eadie, John Francis Waller, William John Macquorn Rankine, The Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography:His body was stripped, laid out upon a table, and covered with a hearsecloth, when some of his attendants perceived symptoms of returning animation, and by the use of warm applications, internal and external, gradually restored him to life.
- The act of applying as a means; the employment of means to accomplish an end; specific use.
1693, [John Locke], “§43”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: A and J Churchill, , →OCLC:All that I have hitherto contended for, is, that whatsoever rigor is necessary, it is more to be us'd, the younger children are; and having by a due application wrought its effect, it is to be relax'd, and chang'd into a milder sort of government.
- The act of directing or referring something to a particular case, to discover or illustrate agreement or disagreement, fitness, or correspondence.
I make the remark, and leave you to make the application.
The application of a theory to a set of data can be challenging.
- (computing) A computer program or the set of software that the end user perceives as a single entity as a tool for a well-defined purpose. (Also called: application program; application software.)
This application can connect to most social networks.
2017, Mohsin Hamid, Exit West, Hamish Hamilton, page 15:Saeed straightened and held up his phone, directing its camera at the heavens, consulting an application that indicated the names of celestial bodies he did not know.
- A verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school, course or similar.
December 31 is the deadline for MBA applications.
- (bureaucracy, law) A petition, entreaty, or other request, with the adposition for denoting the subject matter.
Their application for a deferral of the hearing was granted.
- The act of requesting, claiming, or petitioning something.
- Diligence; close thought or attention.
- A kind of needlework; appliqué.
- (computing theory) The substitution of a specific value for the parameter in the abstraction, in lambda calculus.
- (obsolete) Compliance.
Synonyms
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Translations
the act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense
- Afrikaans: aanvraag
- Arabic: تَطْبِيق m (taṭbīq)
- Gulf Arabic: تطبيق (tə6biq)
- Hijazi Arabic: تَطْبِيق m (taṭbīg)
- Bulgarian: приложе́ние (bg) n (priložénie), употре́ба (bg) (upotréba)
- Catalan: aplicació (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 應用/应用 (jing3 jung6)
- Mandarin: 應用/应用 (zh) (yìngyòng)
- Dutch: aanbrengen (nl) n
- Finnish: siveleminen (fi), levittäminen (fi), käyttö (fi)
- French: application (fr) f
- Galician: aplicación (gl) f
- German: Anwendung (de) m
- Greek: εφαρμογή (el) f (efarmogí), χρήση (el) f (chrísi)
- Ancient: πρόσθεσις f (prósthesis)
- Hebrew: יישום \ יִשּׂוּם m (yisúm), החלה f (hekhalá), תחולה f (tkhulá)
- Hungarian: rávitel, bevonás (hu), felvitel (hu), felhordás
- Italian: applicazione (it) f
- Korean: 응용(應用) (ko) (eung'yong), 애플리케이션 (ko) (aepeullikeisyeon)
- Macedonian: примена f (primena), применување n (primenuvanje)
- Malay: pemakaian (ms)
- Polish: aplikacja (pl) f
- Portuguese: aplicação (pt) f
- Romanian: aplicare (ro) f
- Russian: примене́ние (ru) n (primenénije), приложе́ние (ru) n (priložénije)
- Spanish: aplicación (es) f
- Swedish: applikation (sv), applicering
- Tagalog: salapat
- Turkish: başvuru (tr), müracaat (tr), dilekçe (tr)
- Vietnamese: áp dụng (vi), ứng dụng (vi)
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the act of applying as a means
the act of directing or referring something to a particular case
a computer program
- Afrikaans: toepassing, applikasie
- Arabic: تَطْبِيق m (taṭbīq)
- Gulf Arabic: برنامج (bərnaməj), تطبيق (tə6biq), أبلكيشن (əblɪkeʆɪn)
- Hijazi Arabic: تَطْبِيق m (taṭbīg)
- Armenian: գործադիր (hy) (gorcadir), հավելված (hy) (havelvac)
- Assamese: এপ্লিকেচন (eplikeson), এপ (ep)
- Azerbaijani: tətbiq, proqram (az)
- Basque: please add this translation if you can
- Belarusian: дада́так m (dadátak), прагра́ма f (prahráma)
- Bulgarian: приложе́ние (bg) n (priložénie), програ́ма (bg) f (prográma)
- Catalan: aplicació (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 應用程序/应用程序 (yìngyòng chéngxù), 應用程式/应用程式 (zh) (yìngyòng chéngshì)
- Czech: aplikace (cs) f
- Dutch: computerprogramma (nl) n, softwarepakket (nl) n, toepassing (nl) f, applicatie (nl) f
- Esperanto: aplikaĵo
- Estonian: rakendus
- Finnish: sovellus (fi)
- French: application (fr) f, programme (fr) m
- Georgian: აპლიკაცია (aṗliḳacia)
- German: Anwendung (de) f, Applikation (de) f, App (de) f
- Greek: εφαρμογή (el) f (efarmogí), πρόγραμμα (el) n (prógramma)
- Gujarati: અનુપ્રયોગ (anuprayog)
- Hebrew: יישום \ יִשּׂוּם m (yisúm), אַפְּלִיקַצְיָה (he) f (aplikátsya), תׇּכְנָה f (tokhná)
- Hindi: ऍप्लिकेशन (ĕplikeśan)
- Hungarian: alkalmazás (hu), app (hu), applikáció (hu)
- Icelandic: forrit (is) n, tölvuforrit (is) n
- Irish: feidhmchlár m
- Italian: applicazione (it) f, applicativo (it) m, programma (it) m
- Japanese: アプリケーション (apurikēshon), アプリ (ja) (apuri)
- Kazakh: қолданба (kk) (qoldanba), қосымша (kk) (qosymşa)
- Khmer: កម្មវិធី (km) (kamvithii)
- Korean: 애플리케이션 (ko) (aepeullikeisyeon), 앱 (ko) (aep)
- Kyrgyz: колдонмо (ky) (koldonmo)
- Lao: please add this translation if you can
- Latvian: aplikācija f, lietotne f, lietojumprogrammatūra f
- Lithuanian: programėlė f
- Macedonian: извршник m (izvršnik), програм m (program), извршен програм m (izvršen program), апликација f (aplikacija)
- Malay: aplikasi (ms)
- Maori: taupānga
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: програм (program)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: applikasjon m, program n
- Nynorsk: applikasjon m, program n
- Persian: برنامه (fa) (barnâme), اپلیکیشن (aplikeyšen), اپ (fa) (ap)
- Polish: aplikacja (pl) f, program komputerowy (pl) m
- Portuguese: aplicativo (pt) m (Brazil), aplicação (pt) f (Portugal)
- Romanian: aplicație (ro) f
- Russian: приложе́ние (ru) n (priložénije), (прикладная) програ́мма (ru) f (prográmma)
- Scottish Gaelic: cleachdadh m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: аплика́ција f
- Roman: aplikácija (sh) f
- Slovak: aplikácia f
- Slovene: aplikacija f
- Spanish: aplicación (es) f
- Swedish: applikation (sv), programvara (sv)
- Tajik: нармафзор (tg) (narmafzor), барнома (tg) (barnoma), замима (tg) (zamima)
- Tamil: please add this translation if you can
- Tatar: кушымтама (quşımtama)
- Thai: แอปพลิเคชัน (ɛ́p-plì-kee-chân), แอป (ɛ́p), โปรแกรมประยุกต์
- Tigrinya: መተግበሪ (mätägbäri)
- Turkish: uygulama (tr)
- Ukrainian: застосу́нок m (zastosúnok), дода́ток m (dodátok), програ́ма f (prohráma)
- Uzbek: ilova (uz)
- Vietnamese: ứng dụng (vi)
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a verbal or written request, especially for assistance or employment or admission to a school, course or similar
- Arabic: كِتَاب (ar) m (kitāb), اِسْتِمَارَة f (istimāra)
- Aragonese: demanda f
- Assamese: দৰ্খাস্ত (dorkhasto)
- Belarusian: зая́ва f (zajáva), заяўле́нне n (zajaŭljénnje), про́сьба f (prósʹba), зая́ўка f (zajáŭka)
- Bulgarian: заявле́ние (bg) n (zajavlénie), молба́ (bg) f (molbá)
- Catalan: sol·licitud f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 申請/申请 (zh) (shēnqǐng), 請求/请求 (zh) (qǐngqiú)
- Czech: přihláška (cs) f, žádost (cs) f
- Danish: ansøgning (da) c
- Dutch: aanschrijven (nl) n, aanvraag (nl) f, sollicitatie (nl) f (for a job)
- Esperanto: kandidateco
- Estonian: taotlus
- Finnish: hakemus (fi), anomus (fi)
- French: candidature (fr) f, demande (fr) f
- Georgian: განცხადება (gancxadeba)
- German: Antrag (de) m, Bewerbung (de) f (for a job)
- Greek: αίτηση (el) f (aítisi)
- Hebrew: בַּקָּשָׁה (he) f (bakashá)
- Hindi: अर्ज़ी f (arzī)
- Hungarian: jelentkezés (hu)
- Icelandic: umsókn (is) f
- Irish: iarratas (ga) m
- Italian: candidatura (it) f
- Japanese: 応募 (ja) (おうぼ, ōbo), 出願 (ja) (しゅつがん, shutsugan), 申し込み (ja) (もうしこみ, mōshikomi), 申請 (ja) (しんせい, shinsei)
- Korean: 신청(申請) (ko) (sincheong)
- Macedonian: поднесок m (podnesok), барање n (baranje), молба f (molba)
- Malayalam: അപേക്ഷ (ml) (apēkṣa)
- Maori: tono
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: søknad m
- Plautdietsch: Aunfroag f
- Polish: wniosek (pl) m, aplikacja (pl) f
- Portuguese: inscrição (pt) f, candidatura f
- Russian: заявле́ние (ru) n (zajavlénije), хода́тайство (ru) n (xodátajstvo), про́сьба (ru) f (prósʹba), проше́ние (ru) n (prošénije), зая́вка (ru) f (zajávka), обраще́ние (ru) n (obraščénije)
- Scottish Gaelic: iarrtas m
- Slovak: žiadosť f
- Spanish: solicitud (es) f
- Swedish: ansökan (sv) c
- Telugu: దరఖాస్తు (te) (darakhāstu)
- Turkish: dilekçe (tr)
- Ukrainian: зая́ва f (zajáva), зая́вка (uk) f (zajávka), зве́рнення n (zvérnennja), проха́ння n (proxánnja), про́сьба f (prósʹba)
- Vietnamese: đơn xin
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(bureaucracy, law) a petition, entreaty, or other request, with the adposition for denoting the subject matter
the act of requesting, claiming, petitioning something
diligence; close thought or attention
Translations to be checked
See also
References
French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French application, from Old French aplicacion, from Latin applicātiōnem.
Pronunciation
Noun
application f (plural applications)
- application
- (mathematics) mapping
- (software) application
- Synonym: programme
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
Middle French
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old French aplicacion, from Latin applicātiōnem, accusative singular of applicātiō.
Noun
application f (plural applications)
- application (act of applying something)
Descendants
References
- application on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)