different between application vs dispensation

application

English

Etymology

From Late Middle English applicacioun, borrowed from Old French aplicacion (French application), from Latin applic?ti?nem, accusative singular of applic?ti? (attachment; application, inclination), from applic? (join to, attach; apply).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?æpl??ke???n/
  • (weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /?æpl??ke???n/
  • Hyphenation: ap?pli?ca?tion
  • Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

application (countable and uncountable, plural applications)

  1. The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense
  2. 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.
  3. The act of applying as a means; the employment of means to accomplish an end; specific use.
    • 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.
  4. The act of directing or referring something to a particular case, to discover or illustrate agreement or disagreement, fitness, or correspondence.
  5. (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.)
  6. A verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school, course or similar.
  7. (bureaucracy, law) A petition, entreaty, or other request, with the adposition for denoting the subject matter.
  8. The act of requesting, claiming, or petitioning something.
  9. Diligence; close thought or attention.
  10. A kind of needlework; appliqué.
  11. (obsolete) Compliance.

Synonyms

  • (computer software): software, program, app

Hyponyms

  • See also Thesaurus:software
  • Translations

    See also

    • app

    References

    • WordNet 3.0 [1].

    French

    Etymology

    Borrowed from Latin applicatio, applicationem.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /a.pli.ka.sj??/

    Noun

    application f (plural applications)

    1. application
    2. (mathematics) mapping

    Related terms

    • appliquer

    Further reading

    • “application” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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    dispensation

    English

    Etymology

    From Old French despensacion, from Latin dispens?ti?

    Pronunciation

    • (UK) IPA(key): /d?s?p?n?se???n/
    • Rhymes: -e???n

    Noun

    dispensation (countable and uncountable, plural dispensations)

    1. The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution; often used of the distribution of good and evil by God to man, or more generically, of the acts and modes of his administration.
    2. That which is dispensed, dealt out, or appointed; that which is enjoined or bestowed
    3. A system of principles, promises, and rules ordained and administered; scheme; economy; as, the Patriarchal, Mosaic, and Christian dispensations.
    4. The relaxation of a law in a particular case; permission to do something forbidden, or to omit doing something enjoined; specifically, in the Roman Catholic Church, exemption from some ecclesiastical law or obligation to God which a man has incurred of his own free will (oaths, vows, etc.).

    Related terms

    • dispensationalism
    • dispensationalist

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