Apply vs Exercise - What's the difference?
apply | exercise |
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
Any activity designed to develop or hone a skill or ability.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:desire of knightly exercise
*(John Locke) (1632-1705)
*:an exercise of the eyes and memory
Physical activity intended to improve strength and fitness.
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*:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.He was smooth-faced, and his fresh skin and well-developed figure bespoke the man in good physical condition through active exercise , yet well content with the world's apportionment.
A setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use.
*(Thomas Jefferson) (1743-1826)
*:exercise of the important function confided by the constitution to the legislature
* (1809-1892)
*:O we will walk this world, / Yoked in all exercise of noble end.
The performance of an office, ceremony, or duty.
*(Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
*:Lewis refused even those of the church of Englandthe public exercise of their religion.
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:to draw him from his holy exercise
(lb) That which gives practice; a trial; a test.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:Patience is more oft the exercise / Of saints, the trial of their fortitude.
To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop.
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To perform physical activity for health or training.
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To use (a right, an option, etc.); to put into practice.
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*Bible, (w) xxii. 29
*:The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery.
To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful or vexatious manner; harass; to vex; to worry or make anxious.
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*(and other bibliographic particulars for citation) (John Milton)
*:Where pain of unextinguishable fire / Must exercise us without hope of end.
(lb) To set in action; to cause to act, move, or make exertion; to give employment to.
*Bible, (w) xxiv. 16
*:Herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence.
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*:Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence.
In obsolete terms the difference between apply and exercise
is that apply is to visit while exercise is to set in action; to cause to act, move, or make exertion; to give employment to.As verbs the difference between apply and exercise
is that apply is 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 while exercise is to exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop.As an adjective apply
is an alternative spelling of lang=en.As a noun exercise is
any activity designed to develop or hone a skill or ability.apply
English
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.