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apply
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English aplien, applien, from Old French applier, (French appliquer), from Latin applic? (“join, fix, or attach to”); from ad + plic? (“fold, twist together”). See applicant, ply.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??pla?/
- Rhymes: -a?
- Hyphenation: ap?ply
Verb
apply (third-person singular simple present applies, present participle applying, simple past and past participle applied)
- (transitive) To lay or place; to put (one thing to another)
- (transitive) To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case
- Synonyms: appropriate, devote, use
- (transitive) To make use of, declare, or pronounce, as suitable, fitting, or relative
- (transitive) To put closely; to join; to engage and employ diligently, or with attention
- Synonyms: attach, incline
- (transitive) To to address; to refer; generally used reflexively.
- (intransitive) To submit oneself as a candidate (with the adposition "to" designating the recipient of the submission, and the adposition "for" designating the position).
- (intransitive) To pertain or be relevant to a specified individual or group.
- (obsolete) To busy; to keep at work; to ply.
- She was no less skillful in applying his humours.
- (obsolete) To visit.
Related terms
Descendants
- ? Cebuano: aplay
Translations
Etymology 2
apple +? -y.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?æp(?)li/
Adjective
apply (comparative more apply, superlative most apply)
- Alternative spelling of appley
References
- apply in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- lappy
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attribute
English
Etymology
From Latin attributus past participle of attribuere.
Pronunciation
- Noun
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?æt??bju?t/
- (General American) enPR: ??tr?-byo?ot', IPA(key): /?æt????bjut/
- Rhymes: -æt??bju?t
- Hyphenation: at?tri?bute
- Verb
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??t??bju?t/
- (General American) enPR: ?-tr??byo?ot', IPA(key): /??t???bjut/
- Rhymes: -?bju?t
- Hyphenation: at?trib?ute
Noun
attribute (plural attributes)
- A characteristic or quality of a thing.
- His finest attribute is his kindness.
- An object that is considered typical of someone or some function, in particular as an artistic convention.
- (grammar) A word that qualifies a noun, a qualifier.
- In the clause "My jacket is more expensive than yours", "My" is the attribute of "jacket".
- (logic) That which is predicated or affirmed of a subject; a predicate; an accident.
- (computing, object-oriented programming) An option or setting belonging to some object.
- This packet has its coherency attribute set to zero.
- A file with the read-only attribute set cannot be overwritten.
- (programming) A semantic item with which a method or other code element may be decorated.
- Properties can be marked as obsolete with an attribute, which will cause the compiler to generate a warning if they are used.
- 2003, Peter Drayton, Ben Albahari, Ted Neward, C# in a Nutshell (page 536)
- This attribute is used to declare in metadata that the attributed method or class requires
SocketPermission
of the declared form.
- This attribute is used to declare in metadata that the attributed method or class requires
- (computer graphics, dated) A numeric value representing the colours of part of the screen display.
- 1987, Marcus Berkmann, Sceptre Of Bagdad (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 17
- […] you can only carry two objects, your attributes clash when you walk past multi-coloured objects and your enemies fly up and down from the ceiling.
- 1989, PC: The Independent Guide to IBM Personal Computers
- If any of the video buffer's background attribute bits are on, MONO converts the attribute to 70h (inverse video).
- 1987, Marcus Berkmann, Sceptre Of Bagdad (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 17
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:characteristic
Derived terms
Related terms
- attributive
Translations
Verb
attribute (third-person singular simple present attributes, present participle attributing, simple past and past participle attributed)
- To ascribe (something) to a given cause, reason etc.
- To associate ownership or authorship of (something) to someone.
- This poem is attributed to Browning.
- 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious
- We attribute nothing to God that hath any repugnancy or contradiction in it.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 278:
- H?kim's atypical actions should not be attributed to Islam as much as to insanity, which eventually led him to proclaim himself as Allah, whereupon he was murdered by outraged fellow Muslims.
Conjugation
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- attribute in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- attribute in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- ribattute
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /at.tri?bu?.te/, [ät?????bu?t??]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /at.tri?bu.te/, [?t???i?bu?t??]
Adjective
attrib?te
- vocative masculine singular of attrib?tus
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