different between caution vs application

English

Etymology

Recorded since 1297 as Middle English caucioun (“bail, guarantee, pledge”), from Old French caution (“security, surety”), itself from Latin cauti?, from cautus, past participle of cave?, cav?re (“be on one's guard”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kôshn, IPA^(key): /?k???(?)n/
• (US) enPR: käshn, kôshn, IPA^(key): /?k???(?)n/, /?k??(?)n/
• (cot–caught merger, Inland Northern American) enPR: käshn, IPA^(key): /?k??n?/
• Rhymes: -????n

Noun

caution (countable and uncountable, plural cautions)

1. Precept or warning against evil or danger of any kind; exhortation to wariness; advice; injunction; prudence in regard to danger; provident care
2. A careful attention to the probable effects of an act, in order that failure or harm may be avoided

   The guideline expressed caution against excessive radiographic imaging.

3. Security; guaranty; bail.
4. (dated) One who draws attention or causes astonishment by their behaviour.

   Oh, that boy, he's a caution! He does make me laugh.

5. (law) A formal warning given as an alternative to prosecution in minor cases.
6. (soccer) A yellow card.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:caution

Hyponyms

• precaution

Derived terms

• cautionary
• cautious

Related terms

• caveat
• err on the side of caution
• throw caution to the wind

Translations

Verb

caution (third-person singular simple present cautions, present participle cautioning, simple past and past participle cautioned)

1. (transitive) To warn; to alert, advise that caution is warranted.
2. (soccer) To give a yellow card

Translations

Anagrams

• auction, tauonic

French

Etymology

From Old French caution, borrowed from Latin cauti?, cauti?nem, from cautus, past participle of cave?, cav?re (“be on one's guard”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ko.sj??/

Noun

caution f (plural cautions)

1. caution, guaranty, bail
2. deposit
3. security deposit

Derived terms

• cautionnement m
• cautionner

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• couinât

Norman

Etymology

From Old French caution, borrowed from Latin cauti?, cauti?nem.

Noun

caution f (plural cautions)

1. (Jersey) deposit
2. (Jersey, law) bail

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).