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say it: uh-PLAHY
apply is a verb meaning "put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose". It carries 10 recorded senses.
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”
be applicable to; as to an analysis
“This theory lends itself well to our new data”
give or convey physically
“She gave him First Aid”
“I gave him a punch in the nose”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for apply come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.