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. (verb)
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. (verb)
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. (verb)
To fix closely; to engage and employ diligently, or with attention; to attach; to incline. (verb)
To betake; to address; to refer;—used reflexively. (verb)
To submit oneself as a candidate for. (verb)
To pertain or be relevant to a specified individual or group. (verb)
Examples of word apply
If they were asked to define “press” as a group of people, they would have had the term apply to all able-bodied citizens.
Does not the term apply to all who can make any sort of useful product or commodity?
To insist that the term apply only to those who fear G-d purely- 100%- would probably rule out most of the people you and I know.
This idea of being a strict constructionist first of all what is it for folks, break that down, and then does the label apply to Roberts?
We make the term apply to any method of irritating the Hun, from a trench-raid to a big offensive.