different between appropriate vs app

English

Etymology

From Middle English appropriaten, borrowed from Latin appropriatus, past participle of approprio (“to make one's own”), from ad (“to”) + proprio (“to make one's own”), from proprius (“one's own, private”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?pr?'pri?t, ?pr?'pri?t, IPA^(key): /??p???.p?i?.?t/, /??p???.p?i?.?t/
• (US) enPR: ?pr?'pri?t, ?pr?'pri?t, IPA^(key): /??p?o?.p?i.?t/, /??p?o?.p?i.?t/

Verb

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??p???.p?i?.e?t/
• (US) enPR: ?pr?'pri?t, IPA^(key): /??p?o?.p?i.e?t/

Adjective

appropriate (comparative more appropriate, superlative most appropriate)

1. Suitable or fit; proper.
   • 1798-1801, Beilby Porteus, Lecture XI delivered in the Parish Church of St. James, Westminster

     in its strict and appropriate meaning

   • 1710, Edward Stillingfleet, Several Conferences Between a Romish Priest, a Fanatick Chaplain, and a Divine of the Church of England Concerning the Idolatry of the Church of Rome

     appropriate acts of divine worship
2. Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.
3. (obsolete) Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.

Synonyms

• (suited for): apt, felicitous, fitting, suitable; see also Thesaurus:suitable

Antonyms

• (all senses): inappropriate

Derived terms

• appropriateness

Related terms

• proper
• property

Translations

Verb

appropriate (third-person singular simple present appropriates, present participle appropriating, simple past and past participle appropriated)

1. (transitive, archaic) To make suitable to; to suit.
   • 1790, Helen Maria Williams, Julia, Routledge 2016, p. 67:

     Under the towers were a number of gloomy subterraneous apartments with vaulted roofs, the use of which imagination was left to guess, and could only appropriate to punishment and horror.

   • 1802, William Paley, Natural Theology or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity

     Were we to take a portion of the skin, and contemplate its exquisite sensibility, so finely appropriated […] we should have no occasion to draw our argument, for the twentieth time, from the structure of the eye or the ear.

2. (transitive) To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.
3. (transitive) To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all others; with to or for.
   • 2012, The Washington Post, David Nakamura and Tom Hamburger, "Put armed police in every school, NRA urges"

     “I call on Congress today to act immediately to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every single school in this nation,” LaPierre said.

4. (transitive, Britain, ecclesiastical, law) To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property).

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Blackstone to this entry?)

Synonyms

• (to take to oneself): help oneself, impropriate; see also Thesaurus:take or Thesaurus:steal
• (to set apart for): allocate, earmark; see also Thesaurus:set apart

Translations

Further reading

• appropriate at OneLook Dictionary Search
• appropriate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Italian

Adjective

appropriate f pl

1. feminine plural of appropriato

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æp/
• (US) IPA^(key): [?æ?p?]
• Hyphenation: app
• Rhymes: -æp

Etymology 1

Shortening of application.

Noun

app (plural apps)

1. (computing, mobile telephony) An application (program), especially a small one designed for a mobile device.
2. (military) application (use, purpose; not a computer program)
   • 1995, The X-Files (TV series), Nisei (episode)

     SCULLY: What are these chips used for?
     PENDRELL: Video games, brake systems, they're finding new apps every day. I just read about one being designed to help the severely disabled operate computers using brainwaves.

3. (education, informal) application (to a college etc.)

Hyponyms

Related terms

• app service

Translations

Etymology 2

Shortening of appetizer.

Noun

app (plural apps)

1. (informal) appetizer
   • 2007, Evelyn Spence, Explorer's Guide Colorado's Classic Mountain Towns

     The food is some of Breck's best: apps like sweet potato gnocchi with smoked chicken and sage cream […]

   • 2010, Bill Allen, Grillin', Chillin', and Swillin' (page 1)

     This is not to say that we only serve apps at dinner parties. Quite the contrary; but for smaller gatherings, good appetizers can distinguish you as a host who puts more thought and effort into his or her party menu. Better yet, most apps are relatively easy to make […]

Etymology 3

Shortening of appearance.

Noun

app (plural apps)

1. (sports) an appearance in a game (e.g., a player with 10 apps in a season played 10 times)

See also

• Appendix:American Dialect Society words of the year

Anagrams

• PAP, PPA, pap

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from English app.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ap/

Noun

app f (plural apps)

1. app

   Synonyms: aplicació mòbil, apli

Further reading

• “app” in termcat, Centre de Terminologia, 2021.

Danish

Etymology

From English app, shortened from application.

Noun

app c (singular definite appen, plural indefinite apper or apps)

1. (computing) app

Synonyms

• applikation
• mobilapp

Derived terms

• appudvikler
• mobilapp

Declension

References

• “app” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

From English app. The sense message sent using an app is influenced by the app name WhatsApp.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p/
• Hyphenation: app
• Rhymes: -?p

Noun

app f or m (plural apps, diminutive appje n)

1. an app

2. (typically in the diminutive) a text message sent using an app

Derived terms

• appen
• appgroep
• groepsapp

Faroese

Etymology

From English app, from application, from Latin applic?ti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?p?/

  Rhymes: -a?p?

Noun

app f (genitive singular appar, plural appir)

1. (computing) app (for a mobile device)

Declension

Hungarian

Etymology

Clipping of applikáció (“application”), from English application.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??p?]
• Hyphenation: app
• Rhymes: -?p?

Noun

app (plural appok)

1. (computing) app, application

   Synonyms: alkalmazás, applikáció

Declension

Icelandic

Etymology

From English app, from application, from Latin applic?ti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ahp/

  Rhymes: -ahp

Noun

app n (genitive singular apps, nominative plural öpp)

1. (computing) app (for a mobile device)

Declension

Synonyms

• smáforrit

Italian

Noun

app f (invariable)

1. app

Ludian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *appi.

Noun

app

1. father-in-law

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English app or a clipping of aplicação / aplicativo.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): [??.pi]

Noun

app f or m (in variation) (plural apps)

1. (computing) app (small computer application)

   Synonyms: aplicação, (Brazil) aplicativo

Further reading

• “app” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology

From English app.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ap/, [?ap]

Noun

app f (plural apps)

1. (computing) app

   Synonym: aplicación

Usage notes

• The feminine noun app is like other feminine nouns starting with a stressed a sound in that it takes the definite article el (normally reserved for masculine nouns) in the singular when there is no intervening adjective:

el app

• However, if an adjective, even one that begins with a stressed a sound such as alta or ancha, intervenes between the article and the noun, the article reverts to la.
• In practice, this rule is often not followed and the form la app is widely used.