0 present participle of apply --
1 to request something, usually officially, especially in writing or by sending in a form: --
[ + to infinitive ] Mandy applied to join the police.
We've applied to a charitable organization for a grant for the project.
Please apply in writing to the address below.
By the time I saw the job advertised it was already too late to apply.
2 (especially of rules or laws) to have a connection or be important: --
Those were old regulations - they don't apply any more.
That part of the form is for UK citizens - it doesn't apply to you.
3 to make use of something or use it for a practical purpose: --
4 to spread or rub a substance such as cream or paint on a surface: --
5 If you apply yourself to something, you work hard at it, directing your abilities and efforts in a determined way so that you succeed: --
Fewer archaeologists than ever before are applying for research grants from government agencies.
The posture of applying theoretical principles from the outside, as it were, sends the message that clinical practice and ethics are two different, independent enterprises.
Applying this tendency, we could develop a method of extracting repeatedly used strings from a small user corpus.
Technically speaking optimal stopping (and starting and exiting) levels were derived by applying the real options approach.
The antecedent clause in this example is a verification condition that might be discharged by applying a rule that expresses a property of integer arithmetic.
Thousands of possible atomic models, by applying molecular dynamics on the linker region (blue) have been used in an exhaustive search of the best-fit conformation.
Applying a knowledge-focused management philosophy to immature economies.
This approach encodes into the formalism the probability of a constraint applying.
