Verb

(en-verb)

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.

* {{quote-book

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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,

Yet God at last To Satan, first in sin, his doom applied .

To fix closely; to engage and employ diligently, or with attention; to attach; to incline.

* 1611 , '', ''Proverbs 23:12,

Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.

To betake; to address; to refer; generally used reflexively.

* Alexander Pope

sacred vows applied to grisly Pluto

* (rfdate) Johnson

I applied myself to him for help.

To submit oneself as a candidate (with the adposition "to" designating the recipient of the submission, and the adposition "for" designating the position).

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.

To pertain or be relevant to a specified individual or group.

That rule only applies to foreigners.

(obsolete) To busy; to keep at work; to ply.

* Sir Philip Sidney

She was skillful in applying his humours.

(obsolete) To visit.

* Chapman

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.

(Webster 1913)

Verb

(lb) To transport toward somebody/somewhere.

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At twilight in the summeron the floor.

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

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* {{quote-news, date=21 August 2012, first=Ed, last=Pilkington, newspaper=The Guardian

, title= Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?, newsfeed=true , passage=Next month, Clemons will be brought before a court presided over by a "special master", who will review the case one last time.}}

To supply or contribute.

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*:“it is not fair of you to bring' against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without ' bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”

(lb) To raise (a lawsuit, charges, etc.) against somebody.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Can China clean up fast enough? , passage=It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.}}

To persuade; to induce; to draw; to lead; to guide.

* (John Locke) (1632-1705)

It seems so preposterous a thingthat they do not easily bring themselves to it.

To produce in exchange; to sell for; to fetch.

(lb) To pitch, often referring to a particularly hard thrown fastball.