application
/ˌæp.lɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/ sustantivo B1En español: aplicación, aplicativo, solicitud
- The act of physically applying or laying on. · The application of this cream should reduce the swelling.
- The substance applied.
- The act of applying as a means; the employment of means to accomplish an end; specific use.
- The act of directing or referring something to a particular case, to discover or illustrate agreement or disagreement, fitness, or correspondence. · I make the remark, and leave you to make the application.· The application of a theory to a set of data can be challenging.
- A computer program or the set of software that the end user perceives as a single entity as a tool for a well-defined purpose. (Also called: application program; application software.) · This application can connect to most social networks.
- A verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school, course or similar. · December 31 is the deadline for MBA applications.
- A petition, entreaty, or other request, with the adposition for denoting the subject matter. · Their application for a deferral of the hearing was granted.
- The act of requesting, claiming, or petitioning something.
Plural applications
De la biblioteca
At last he arrived at the adventure of the preceding night, and the embarrassment in which he found himself placed by not having sufficient cash by six or seven hundred piastres to make up the sum required, and finally of his application to the count and the picturesque and satisfactory result that followed.
Please forget the words I said, which have no application whatever to you.”
Allow me to say, Lady Catherine, that the arguments with which you have supported this extraordinary application have been as frivolous as the application was ill-judged.
Bennet’s consent should be asked in the course of the evening: Elizabeth reserved to herself the application for her mother’s.
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