Approve vs Apply - What's the difference?
approve | apply |
To sanction officially; to ratify; to confirm.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To regard as good; to commend; to be pleased with; to think well of.
To make proof of; to demonstrate; to prove or show practically.
* (Ralph Waldo Emerson),
* (Thomas Babington Macaulay),
* (George Gordon Byron),
* (Francis Parkman),
To consider or show to be worthy of approbation or acceptance.
* (Henry Rogers),
* (Thomas Babington Macaulay),
* (William Black),
(English Law) To make profit of; to convert to one's own profit;—said especially of waste or common land appropriated by the lord of the manor.
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
, author=
, title=Translation of Virgil's Aeneid
, passage=He said, and to the sword his throat applied .
, year=1697}}
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
In lang=en terms the difference between approve and apply
is that approve is to consider or show to be worthy of approbation or acceptance while apply is to pertain or be relevant to a specified individual or group.As verbs the difference between approve and apply
is that approve is to sanction officially; to ratify; to confirm or approve can be (english law) to make profit of; to convert to one's own profit;—said especially of waste or common land appropriated by the lord of the manor while 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.As an adjective apply is
.approve
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Compare prove, approbate.Verb
(approv)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.}}
- Opportunities to approve worth.
- He had approved himself a great warrior.
- 'T is an old lesson; Time approves it true.
- His accountapproves him a man of thought.
- The first care and concern must be to approve himself to God.
- They had not approved of the deposition of James.
- They approved of the political institutions.
- Note: This word, when it signifies to be pleased with, to think favorably (of''), is often followed by ''of .
Derived terms
() * approval * approvable * I approve this message * approvably * approbationEtymology 2
(etyl) aprouer; . Compare with improve.Verb
(approv)References
*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.
