Application vs Appliance - What's the difference?
application | appliance |
The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb.
The thing applied.
* Johnson
* 1857 , John Eadie, ?John Francis Waller, ?William John Macquorn Rankine, The Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography
The act of applying as a means; the employment of means to accomplish an end; specific use.
* (John Locke)
The act of directing or referring something to a particular case, to discover or illustrate agreement or disagreement, fitness, or correspondence.
(computing) 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.)
A verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school.
(bureaucracy, legal) A petition, entreaty, or other request.
The act of applying; application.
An implement, an instrument or apparatus designed (or at least used) as a means to a specific end (often specified).
Specifically: A non-manual apparatus or device, powered electrically or by another small motor, used in homes to perform domestic functions (household appliance) and/or in offices.
An attachment, some equipment (or - piece) to adapt another tool or machine to such specific purpose
(lb) A compliance
As nouns the difference between application and appliance
is that application is the act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb while appliance is the act of applying; application.application
English
Noun
(en noun)- He invented a new application by which blood might be stanched.
- 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.
- If a right course be taken with children, there will not be much need of the application of the common rewards and punishments.
- I make the remark, and leave you to make the '''application .
- The application of a theory to a set of data can be challenging.
- This iPhone application can connect to most social networks.
- December 31 is the deadline for MBA applications .
- Their application for a deferral of the hearing was granted.
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* (computer software) software, programReferences
* WordNet 3.0 [http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=application]. ----appliance
English
(wikipedia appliance)Noun
(en noun)- When the boy hid father's feared cane, his bum soon found out the hard way how many sturdy appliances''' at home can double as perfectly painful spanking ' appliance