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Applique: Definition and part of speech

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Applique

  1. a. Ornamented with a pattern (which has been cut out of another color or stuff) applied or transferred to a foundation; as, applique lace; applique work.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Apply: Definition and part of speech

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Apply

  1. v. i. To apply or address one’s self; to give application; to attend closely (to).
  2. v. t. To lay or place; to put or adjust (one thing to another); — with to; as, to apply the hand to the breast; to apply medicaments to a diseased part of the body.
  3. v. t. To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case; to appropriate; to devote; as, to apply money to the payment of a debt.
  4. v. t. To make use of, declare, or pronounce, as suitable, fitting, or relative; as, to apply the testimony to the case; to apply an epithet to a person.
  5. v. t. To fix closely; to engage and employ diligently, or with attention; to attach; to incline.
  6. v. t. To direct or address.
  7. v. t. To betake; to address; to refer; — used reflexively.
  8. v. t. To busy; to keep at work; to ply.
  9. v. t. To visit.
  10. v. i. To suit; to agree; to have some connection, agreement, or analogy; as, this argument applies well to the case.
  11. 1v. i. 1 To apply or address one’s self; to give application; to attend closely (to).
  12. 1v. t. 1 To lay or place; to put or adjust (one thing to another); — with to; as, to apply the hand to the breast; to apply medicaments to a diseased part of the body.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Appoggiatura: Definition and part of speech

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Appoggiatura

  1. n. A passing tone preceding an essential tone, and borrowing the time it occupies from that; a short auxiliary or grace note one degree above or below the principal note unless it be of the same harmony; — generally indicated by a note of smaller size, as in the illustration above. It forms no essential part of the harmony.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Application: Definition and part of speech

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Application

  1. n. A request; a document containing a request; as, his application was placed on file.
  2. n. The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb.
  3. n. The thing applied.
  4. n. The act of applying as a means; the employment of means to accomplish an end; specific use.
  5. n. The act of directing or referring something to a particular case, to discover or illustrate agreement or disagreement, fitness, or correspondence; as, I make the remark, and leave you to make the application; the application of a theory.
  6. n. Hence, in specific uses: (a) That part of a sermon or discourse in which the principles before laid down and illustrated are applied to practical uses; the “moral” of a fable. (b) The use of the principles of one science for the purpose of enlarging or perfecting another; as, the application of algebra to geometry.
  7. n. The capacity of being practically applied or used; relevancy; as, a rule of general application.
  8. n. The act of fixing the mind or closely applying one’s self; assiduous effort; close attention; as, to injure the health by application to study.
  9. n. The act of making request of soliciting; as, an application for an office; he made application to a court of chancery.
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The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.