Apply vs Incorporate - What's the difference?
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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
To include (something) as a part.
* Addison
To mix (something in) as an ingredient; to blend
To admit as a member of a company
To form into a legal company.
(US, legal) To include (another clause or guarantee of the US constitution) as a part (of the , such that the clause binds not only the federal government but also state governments).
To form into a body; to combine, as different ingredients, into one consistent mass.
* Shakespeare
To unite with a material body; to give a material form to; to embody.
* Bishop Stillingfleet
(obsolete) Corporate; incorporated; made one body, or united in one body; associated; mixed together; combined; embodied.
* Shakespeare
* Francis Bacon
Not consisting of matter; not having a material body; incorporeal; spiritual.
* Sir Walter Raleigh
Not incorporated; not existing as a corporation.
In transitive terms the difference between apply and incorporate
is that apply is to betake; to address; to refer; generally used reflexively while incorporate is to form into a legal company.In obsolete terms the difference between apply and incorporate
is that apply is to visit while incorporate is corporate; incorporated; made one body, or united in one body; associated; mixed together; combined; embodied.apply
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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.
Etymology 2
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Verb
(incorporat)- The design of his house incorporates a spiral staircase.
- to incorporate another's ideas into one's work
- The Romans did not subdue a country to put the inhabitants to fire and sword, but to incorporate them into their own community.
- Incorporate air into the mixture.
- The company was incorporated in 1980.
- By your leaves, you shall not stay alone, / Till holy church incorporate two in one.
- The idolaters, who worshipped their images as gods, supposed some spirit to be incorporated therein.
Derived terms
* incorporatedAdjective
(en adjective)- As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds / Had been incorporate .
- a fifteenth part of silver incorporate with gold
- Moses forbore to speak of angels, and things invisible, and incorporate .
- an incorporate banking association