Request vs Apply - What's the difference?
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Act of (l).
* Shakespeare
A formal (l) requesting something.
of being sought after.
* Sir W. Temple
(obsolete) That which is asked for or requested.
* Bible, Psalms cvi. 15
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
In obsolete terms the difference between request and apply
is that request is that which is asked for or requested while apply is to visit.As verbs the difference between request and apply
is that request is to express the need or desire for 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 request
is act of requesting.As an adjective apply is
an alternative spelling of lang=en.request
English
Noun
(en noun)- I will marry her, sir, at your request .
- Knowledge and fame were in as great request as wealth among us now.
- He gave them their request .
Synonyms
* (act of requesting) asking, beseech, prayer, wish * (formal message requesting something) petition, postulation * (state of being sought after) demandDerived terms
* discovery request * request for admission * request for productionSynonyms
* (to express the need or desire for ): indicate, pray, wish * (to ask somebody to do something ): ask, bespeak, call forSee also
* * (wikipedia "request")External links
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*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.