Recruit vs Apply - What's the difference?
recruit | apply |
A supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reinforcement.
A person enlisted for service in the army; a newly enlisted soldier.
A hired worker
(biology, ecology) A new member of a certain population, usually referring to a juvenile.
To enroll or enlist new members or potential employees on behalf of an employer, organization, sports team, military, etc.
To supply with new men, as an army; to fill up or make up by enlistment; also, to muster
(archaic) To replenish, renew, or reinvigorate by fresh supplies; to remedy lack or deficiency in
* Glanvill
(dated) To recuperate; to gain health, flesh, spirits, or the like
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,
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
As verbs the difference between recruit and apply
is that recruit is to enroll or enlist new members or potential employees on behalf of an employer, organization, sports team, military, etc 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 a noun recruit
is a supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reinforcement.As an adjective apply is
an alternative spelling of lang=en.recruit
English
Noun
(en noun)- These new recruits were hired after passing the interviews
Verb
(en verb)- We need to recruit more admin staff to deal with the massive surge in popularity of our products
- the army was recruited for a campaign .
- they were looking to recruit two thousand troops for battle
- Food recruits''' the flesh; fresh air and exercise '''recruit the spirits.
- Her cheeks glow the brighter, recruiting their colour.
- Lean cattle recruit in fresh pastures.
- Go to the country to recruit .
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.