Application vs Index - What's the difference?
application | index |
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.
An alphabetical listing of items and their location.
The index finger; the forefinger.
A movable finger on a gauge, scale, etc.
(printing) A symbol resembling a pointing hand, used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph.
That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses.
* Arbuthnot
A sign; an indication; a token.
* Robert Louis Stevenson
(linguistics) A type of noun where the meaning of the form changes with respect to the context. E.g., 'Today's newspaper' is an indexical form since its referent will differ depending on the context. See also icon and symbol.
(economics) A single number calculated from an array of prices or of quantities.
(science) A number representing a property or ratio, a coefficient.
(mathematics) A raised suffix indicating a power.
(programming, computing) An integer or other key indicating the location of data e.g. within an array, vector, database table, associative array, or hash table.
(computing, databases) A data structure that improves the performance of operations on a table.
(obsolete) A prologue indicating what follows.
To arrange an index for something, especially a long text.
To inventory, to take stock.
As nouns the difference between application and index
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 index is index.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.
Hyponyms
* See alsoSynonyms
* (computer software) software, programReferences
* WordNet 3.0 [http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=application]. ----index
English
(wikipedia index)Noun
(en-noun)- The index of a book lists words or expressions and the pages of the book upon which they are to be found.
- Tastes are the indexes of the different qualities of plants.
- His son's empty guffaws struck him with pain as the indices of a weak mind.
- (Shakespeare)