• IPA: /əˈplaɪ/

apply

1. (transitive) To lay or place; to put (one thing to another)

   to apply cream to a rash

2. (transitive) To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case; to appropriate; to devote

   to apply funds to the repayment of a debt

3. (transitive) To make use of, declare, or pronounce, as suitable, fitting, or relative; as, to apply the testimony to the case
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:

     Yet God at last To Satan, first in sin, his doom applied.

4. (transitive) To fix closely; to engage and employ diligently, or with attention; to attach; to incline.
   • 1611, Authorized King James Version, Proverbs 23:12,

     Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.

5. (transitive) To betake; to address; to refer; generally used reflexively.
   • 1725, Homer; [Alexander Pope], transl., “Book X”, in The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume III, London: Printed for Bernard Lintot, OCLC 8736646 ↗:

     sacred vows […] applied to grisly Pluto

   • I applied myself to him for help.

6. (intransitive) To submit oneself as a candidate (with the adposition "to" designating the recipient of the submission, and the adposition "for" designating the position).

   I recently applied to the tavern for a job as a bartender.

   Most of the colleges she applied to were ones she thought she had a good chance of getting into.

   Many of them don't know it, but almost a third of the inmates are eligible to apply for parole or work-release programs.

7. (intransitive) To pertain or be relevant to a specified individual or group.

   That rule only applies to foreigners.

8. (obsolete) To busy; to keep at work; to ply.

   • She was skillful in applying his humours.

9. (obsolete) To visit.

   • His armour was so clear, / And he applied each place so fast, that like a lightning thrown / Out of the shield of Jupiter, in every eye he shone.

• French: appliquer
• Portuguese: aplicar
• Russian: прилага́ть
• Spanish: aplicar

• French: appliquer
• German: anwenden, verwenden, benutzen
• Italian: applicare
• Portuguese: aplicar
• Russian: испо́льзовать
• Spanish: utilizar, emplear, aplicar

• Portuguese: aplicar
• Russian: применяться

• Portuguese: aplicar-se
• Spanish: (pronominal) aplicarse

• French: s'inscrire, postuler
• German: bewerben (um etwas)
• Italian: candidarsi
• Portuguese: candidatar-se
• Russian: обраща́ться
• Spanish: presentarse, optar, postular

• German: gelten
• Portuguese: aplicar-se
• Russian: применя́ться
• Spanish: aplicar

• IPA: /ˈæp(ə)li/

apply

1. Alternative spelling of appley