Administer vs Apply - What's the difference?
administer | apply | Synonyms |
To cause to take, either by openly offering or through deceit.
* Macaulay
To apportion out.
* Spectator
* Macaulay
* Philips
To manage or supervise the conduct, performance or execution of; to govern or regulate the parameters for the conduct, performance or execution of; to work in an administrative capacity.
* Alexander Pope
To minister (to).
(legal) To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor.
To tender, as an oath.
* Shakespeare
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.
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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.
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.
* (rfdate) Milton,
To fix closely; to engage and employ diligently, or with attention; to attach; to incline.
* 1611 , '', ''Proverbs 23:12,
To betake; to address; to refer; generally used reflexively.
* Alexander Pope
* (rfdate) Johnson
To submit oneself as a candidate (with the adposition "to" designating the recipient of the submission, and the adposition "for" designating the position).
To pertain or be relevant to a specified individual or group.
(obsolete) To busy; to keep at work; to ply.
* Sir Philip Sidney
(obsolete) To visit.
* Chapman
In transitive terms the difference between administer and apply
is that administer is to manage or supervise the conduct, performance or execution of; to govern or regulate the parameters for the conduct, performance or execution of; to work in an administrative capacity while apply is to betake; to address; to refer; generally used reflexively.In intransitive terms the difference between administer and apply
is that administer is to minister (to) while apply is to pertain or be relevant to a specified individual or group.As an adjective apply is
an alternative spelling of lang=en.administer
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Alternative forms
* administre (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- We administered the medicine to our dog by mixing it in his food.
- A noxious drug had been administered to him.
- A fountain administers to the pleasure as well as the plenty of the place.
- Justice was administered with an exactness and purity not before known.
- [Let zephyrs] administer their tepid, genial airs.
- For forms of government let fools contest: / Whate'er is best administered is best.
- administering to the sick
- Swear to keep the oath that we administer .
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) applier, ((etyl) appliquer), from (etyl) . See applicant, ply.Verb
(en-verb)- Yet God at last To Satan, first in sin, his doom applied .
- Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
- sacred vows applied to grisly Pluto
- I applied myself to him for help.
- I recently applied to the tavern for a job as a bartender.
- Most of the colleges she applied to were ones she thought she had a good chance of getting into.
- Many of them don't know it, but almost a third of the inmates are eligible to apply for parole or work-release programs.
- That rule only applies to foreigners.
- She was skillful in applying his humours.
- His armour was so clear, / And he applied each place so fast, that like a lightning thrown / Out of the shield of Jupiter, in every eye he shone.
