Noun

(en noun)

The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb.

The thing applied.

* Johnson

He invented a new application by which blood might be stanched.

* 1857 , John Eadie, ?John Francis Waller, ?William John Macquorn Rankine, The Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography

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.

The act of applying as a means; the employment of means to accomplish an end; specific use.

* (John Locke)

If a right course be taken with children, there will not be much need of the application of the common rewards and punishments.

The act of directing or referring something to a particular case, to discover or illustrate agreement or disagreement, fitness, or correspondence.

I make the remark, and leave you to make the '''application .

The application of a theory to a set of data can be challenging.

(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.)

This iPhone application can connect to most social networks.

A verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school.

December 31 is the deadline for MBA applications .

(bureaucracy, legal) A petition, entreaty, or other request.

Their application for a deferral of the hearing was granted.

Noun

(en noun)

A set of clothes to be worn together, now especially a man's matching jacket and trousers (also business suit or lounge suit), or a similar outfit for a woman.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=Foreword citation , passage=A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Revenge of the nerds , passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suit ed men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.}}

(by extension) A single garment that covers the whole body: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit.

(pejorative, slang) A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor.

A full set of armour.

(legal) The attempt to gain an end by legal process; a process instituted in a court of law for the recovery of a right or claim; a lawsuit.

(obsolete) The act of following or pursuing; pursuit, chase.

Pursuit of a love-interest; wooing, courtship.

Rebate your loves, each rival suit suspend, Till this funereal web my labors end. —(Alexander Pope).

The full set of sails required for a ship.

(card games) Each of the sets of a pack of cards distinguished by color and/or specific emblems, such as the spades, hearts, diamonds and French playing cards.

To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort Her mingled suits and sequences. — (William Cowper).

(obsolete) Regular order; succession.

Every five and thirty years the same kind and suit of weather comes again. — (Francis Bacon).

(obsolete) The act of suing; the pursuit of a particular object or goal.

Thenceforth the suit of earthly conquest shone. — (Edmund Spenser).

(archaic) A company of attendants or followers; a retinue.

(archaic) A group of similar or related objects or items considered as a whole; a suite (of rooms etc.)