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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)
- The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense
- 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.
- 1857, John Eadie, John Francis Waller, William John Macquorn Rankine, The Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography
- 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.
- The act of directing or referring something to a particular case, to discover or illustrate agreement or disagreement, fitness, or correspondence.
- (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.)
- A verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school, course or similar.
- (bureaucracy, law) A petition, entreaty, or other request, with the adposition for denoting the subject matter.
- The act of requesting, claiming, or petitioning something.
- Diligence; close thought or attention.
- A kind of needlework; appliqué.
- (obsolete) Compliance.
Synonyms
- (computer software): software, program, app
Hyponyms
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)
- application
- (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)
- 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.
- That which is dispensed, dealt out, or appointed; that which is enjoined or bestowed
- A system of principles, promises, and rules ordained and administered; scheme; economy; as, the Patriarchal, Mosaic, and Christian dispensations.
- 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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