application

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ap=pli=ca=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

application, n. [L. applicatio, fr. applicare: cf. F. application. See Apply.].

•  The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb.  [1913 Webster]
•  The thing applied.  [1913 Webster]

  "He invented a new application by which blood might be stanched."  [1913 Webster]
•  The act of applying as a means; the employment of means to accomplish an end; specific use.  [1913 Webster]

  "If a right course . . . be taken with children, there will not be much need of the application of the common rewards and punishments."  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]
•  The capacity of being practically applied or used; relevancy; as, a rule of general application.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]

  "Had his application been equal to his talents, his progress might have been greater."  [1913 Webster]
•  The act of making request of soliciting; as, an application for an office; he made application to a court of chancery.  [1913 Webster]
•  A request; a document containing a request; as, his application was placed on file.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

application, n.
1 the act of applying, esp. medicinal ointment to the skin.
2 a formal request, usu. in writing, for employment, membership, etc.
3 a relevance. b the use to which something can or should be put.
4 sustained or concentrated effort; diligence.

Etymology

ME f. F f. L applicatio -onis (as APPLY, -ATION)

THESAURUS

application

Ace bandage, Band-Aid, absorbed attention, absorption, accounting for, active use, address, adhesive tape, administration, answerability, appeal, appliance, applicability, applying, appositeness, ardor, arrogation, ascription, asking, assiduity, assiduousness, assignation, assignment, attachment, attention, attribution, band, bandage, bandaging, bearing, bestowal, binder, blame, boning, brace, brainwork, bulldog tenacity, busyness, cast, cataplasm, charge, claim, commitment, compress, concentration, concern, concernment, connection, connection with, conning, consideration, constancy, consumption, contemplation, cotton, court plaster, cram, cramming, cravat, credit, debate, dedication, deep study, deep thought, deliberation, demand, derivation from, desire, devotion, diligence, dogged perseverance, doggedness, dosage, dosing, dressing, drill, effort, elastic bandage, employ, employment, endurance, energeticalness, energy, enforcing, engagement, engrossment, entreaty, epithem, etiology, exercise, exercising, exertion, expressed desire, extensive study, fervor, fidelity, forcing, forcing on, four-tailed bandage, gauze, germaneness, giving, good use, grind, grinding, hard usage, hard use, headwork, heed, honor, ill use, immersion, impetration, imploration, imprecation, imputation, indefatigability, indent, industriousness, industry, insistence, insistency, inspection, intentness, interest, involvement, laboriousness, lint, loyalty, lucubration, materiality, meditation, mental labor, meting out, misuse, monomania, obsession, obstinacy, operation, orison, palaetiology, patience, patience of Job, permanence, perseverance, persistence, persistency, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, pertinence, perusal, petition, placement, plaster, plaster cast, plea, pledget, plodding, plugging, poultice, practice, preoccupation, prescribing, profound thought, rapt attention, reading, reference, reference to, regard, relatedness, relentlessness, relevance, request, requisition, resolution, respect, responsibility, restudy, restudying, review, roller, roller bandage, rough usage, rubber bandage, saddling, sedulity, sedulousness, single-mindedness, singleness of purpose, sling, slogging, solicitation, splint, sponge, stability, stamina, staying power, steadfastness, steadiness, stick-to-itiveness, strenuousness, stubbornness, studiousness, study, studying, stupe, subject, submersion, suit, supplication, swotting, tampon, tape, tenaciousness, tenacity, tent, tirelessness, tourniquet, triangular bandage, unremittingness, unsparingness, unswerving attention, usage, use, using up, utilization, vehemence, wide reading, wish, wrong use, zeal, zealousness

ROGET THESAURUS

application

Use

N use, employ, employment, exercise, exercitation, application, appliance, adhibition, disposal, consumption, agency, usufruct, usefulness, benefit, recourse, resort, avail, utilization, service, wear, usage, in use, used, well-worn, well-trodden, useful, subservient.

Request

N request, requisition, claim, petition, suit, prayer, begging letter, round robin, motion, overture, application, canvass, address, appeal, apostrophe, imprecation, rogation, proposal, proposition, orison, incantation, mendicancy, asking, begging, postulation, solicitation, invitation, entreaty, importunity, supplication, instance, impetration, imploration, obsecration, obtestation, invocation, interpellation, requesting, precatory, suppliant, supplicant, supplicatory, postulant, obsecratory, importunate, clamorous, urgent, cap in hand, on one's knees, on one's bended knees, on one's marrowbones, prithee, do, please, pray, be so good as, be good enough, have the goodness, vouchsafe, will you, I pray thee, if you please, Int, for God's sake!, for heaven's sake!, for goodness' sake!, for mercy's sake!, Dieu vous garde, dirigenos Domine, would you be so kind as to.

Thought

N thought, exercitation of the intellect, exercise of the intellect, intellection, reflection, cogitation, consideration, meditation, study, lucubration, speculation, deliberation, pondering, head work, brain work, cerebration, deep reflection, close study, application, abstract thought, abstraction contemplation, musing, brown study, reverie, Platonism, depth of thought, workings of the mind, thoughts, inmost thoughts, self-counsel self-communing, self- consultation, philosophy of the Absolute, philosophy of the Academy, philosophy of the Garden, philosophy of the lyceum, philosophy of the Porch, association of thought, succession of thought, flow of thought, train of thought, current of thought, association of ideas, succession of ideas, flow of ideas, train of ideas, current of ideas, after thought, mature thought, reconsideration, second thoughts, retrospection, excogitation, examination, invention, thoughtfulness, thinking, thoughtful, pensive, meditative, reflective, museful, wistful, contemplative, speculative, deliberative, studious, sedate, introspective, Platonic, philosophical, lost in thought, deep musing, in the mind, under consideration, all things considered, the mind being on the stretch, the mind turning upon, the head turning upon, the mind running upon, divinely, bent to meditation, en toute chose il faut considerer la fin, fresh- pluckt from bowers of never-failing thought, go speed the stars of Thought, in maiden meditation fancy-free, so sweet is zealous contemplation, the power of thought is the magic of the Mind, those that think must govern those that toil, thought is parent of the deed, thoughts in attitudes imperious, thoughts that breathe and words that burn, vivere est cogitare, Volk der Dichter und Denker.

Metaphor

N metaphor, figure of speech, facon de parler, way of speaking, colloquialism, phrase, figure, trope, metaphor, enallage, catachresis, metonymy, synecdoche, autonomasia, irony, figurativeness, image, imagery, metalepsis, type, anagoge, simile, personification, prosopopoeia, allegory, apologue, parable, fable, allusion, adumbration, application, exaggeration, hyperbole, association, association of ideas (analogy), metaphorical, figurative, catachrestical, typical, tralatitious, parabolic, allegorical, allusive, anagogical, ironical, colloquial, tropical, so to speak, so to say, so to express oneself, as it were, mutato nomine de te fabula narratur.