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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

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).

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mi?n??/
• Rhymes: -i?n??

Etymology 1

From Middle English mening, menyng, equivalent to mean +? -ing. Cognate with Scots mening (“intent, purpose, sense, meaning”), West Frisian miening (“opinion, mind”), Dutch mening (“view, opinion, judgement”), German Meinung (“opinion, view, mind, idea”), Danish and Swedish mening (“meaning, sense, sentence, opinion”), Icelandic meining (“meaning”).

Noun

meaning (countable and uncountable, plural meanings)

1. (of words, expressions or symbols)
   1. The denotation, referent, or idea connected with a word, expression, or symbol.

      • Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ¶ "I never understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."

   2. The connotation associated with a word, expression, or symbol.
2. The purpose, value, or significance (of something) beyond the fact of that thing's existence.

   The number of persons attending the vigil had a lot of meaning to the families.

3. (of a person's actions) Intention.
   • c. 1610?, Walter Raleigh, A Discourse of War

     It was their meaning to take what they needed by strong hand.

Synonyms

• (denotation of words etc.): definition
• (connotation of words etc.):
• (purpose, significance):
• (of a person's actions): goal, aim, plan, intent

Hyponyms

• proposition

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From mean +? -ing.

Verb

meaning

1. present participle of mean

Adjective

meaning (comparative more meaning, superlative most meaning)

1. Having a (specified) intention.
2. Expressing some intention or significance; meaningful.
   • 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, "William Wilson"

     I might, to-day, have been a better, and thus a happier man, had I less frequently rejected the counsels embodied in those meaning whispers which I then but too cordially hated and too bitterly despised.

   • 1978, Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks, Abacus 2014, p. 160:

     [T]he new friends […] knew nothing and did not particularly care to hear about the beautiful mother with her long, meaning looks and liquid dresses and distant smile.

References

• meaning at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• amening