From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Etymology
[en] From Late [en], borrowed from [en] ([fr]), from [en], accusative singular
of [la], from [la].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[~]
1. The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense
2. The substance applied.
3. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1857 | author=John Eadie; John Francis Waller; William John Macquorn Rankine | title=The Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography
|passage=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.}}
1. The act of applying as a means ; the employment of means to accomplish an end ; specific use.
2. * {{ RQ:Locke Education | 43
|passage=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.}}
1. The act of direct ing or refer ring something to a particular case, to discover or illustrate agreement or disagreement , fitness , or correspondence .
2. [en] [en] 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 .)
3. * [en]
4. A verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school , course or similar.
5. [en] A petition , entreaty , or other request , with the adposition for denoting the subject matter.
6. The act of requesting, claiming, or petitioning something.
7. Diligence ; close thought or attention.
8. A kind of needlework ; appliqué .
9. [en] The substitution of a specific value for the parameter in the abstraction , in lambda calculus .
10. [en] Compliance .
**** Synonyms
- [computer software] [en] , [en] , [en]
**** Hyponyms
{{col4|en |array application |aspect-oriented application |asynchronous
application |attribute-oriented application |class-based application
|classless application |command-line interface application |concept
application |concurrent application |console application |constraint
application|job application|speculative application |data-driven application
|dataflow application |data-oriented application |data structure application
|decision table application |declarative application |defensive application
|dual-paradigm application |dynamic application |dynamically-typed application
|embeddable application |end-user application |event-based application
|event-driven application |evolutionary application |flow-based application
|functional application |generic application |graphical user interface
application |imperative application |instance-based application |iterative
application |language-oriented application |list-based application
|logic-based application |machine application |macro application |mathematical
application |metaapplication |modular application |monolithic application
|multi-page application |multi-paradigm application |native application
|natural language application |nondeterministic application |non-structured
application |object-oriented application |partial application |partial
function application |probabilistic application |probabilistic application
|process-oriented application |prototype-based application |reactive
application |recursive application |reflective application |role-oriented
application |rule-based application |single-page application |stack-based
application |static application |statically typed application |structured
application |subject-oriented application |synchronous application |user
interface application |visual application |XML-based application |Web
application }}
- See also Thesaurus:software
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Translations
[the act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he] , [he]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Italian: [it]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Tamil: [ta] , [ta] , [ta] , [ta]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr] , [tr]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi]
[trans-bottom]
[the thing applied]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Korean: [ko]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
[the act of applying as a means]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Indonesian: [id] , [id] , [id]
- Italian: [it]
- Korean: [ko]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Sanskrit: [sa]
- Spanish: [es]
- Turkish: [tr] [dated] , [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[the act of directing or referring something to a particular case]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Dutch: [nl] in de praktijk
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Italian: [it]
- Korean: [ko]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Turkish: [tr] [dated] , [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[a computer program]
- Afrikaans: [af] , [af]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy] , [hy]
- Assamese: [as] , [as]
- Azerbaijani: [az] , [az]
- Basque: [eu]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Gujarati: [gu]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he] , [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is] , [is]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Kazakh: [kk] , [kk]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Lao: [lo]
- Latvian: [lv] , [lv] , [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk] , [mk] , [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Maori: [mi]
- Mongolian:
- Norwegian:
- Persian:
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] [Brazil] , [pt] [Portugal]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [прикладная] [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Tajik: [tg] , [tg] , [tg]
- Tamil: [ta] , [ta]
- Tatar: [tt]
- Thai: [th] , [th] , [th]
- Tigrinya: [ti]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk]
- Urdu: [ur]
- Uzbek: [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
[trans-bottom]
[a verbal or written request, especially for assistance or employment or
admission to a school, course or similar]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar] , [ar]
- Aragonese: [an]
- Assamese: [as]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be] , [be] , [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl] [for a job]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de] [for a job]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Kazakh: [kk] , [kk]
- Korean: [ko]
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk] , [mk]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Maori: [mi]
- Norwegian:
- Persian:
- Plautdietsch: [pdt]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] [United States]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tajik: [tg]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Telugu: [te]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk]
- Urdu: [ur] , [ur]
- Uzbek: [uz] , [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi]
[trans-bottom]
[(bureaucracy, law) a petition, entreaty, or other request, with the
adposition for denoting the subject matter]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- German: [de]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Korean: [ko]
- Polish: [pl]
- Tamil: [ta]
[trans-bottom]
[the act of requesting, claiming, petitioning something]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Korean: [ko]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Tamil: [ta] , [ta]
[trans-bottom]
[diligence; close thought or attention]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Korean: [ko]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Norman: [nrf] [Jersey]
[trans-bottom]
*** See also
- [en]
*** References
- WordNet 3.0 see http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=application .
** French
*** Etymology
[fr], from [fr], from [fr].
*** Pronunciation
- [fr-IPA]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
*** Noun
[f]
1. [en]
2. [fr] mapping
3. [fr] [en]
**** Derived terms
[fr]
**** Related terms
- [fr]
*** Further reading
- [R:fr:TLFi]
** Middle French
*** Alternative forms
- [frm]
*** Etymology
From [frm], from [frm], accusative singular of [la].
*** Noun
[f]
1. [en] [act of applying something]
**** Descendants
- [fr]
*** References
- [R:DMF]