Apply (v. i.) To suit; to agree; to have some connection, agreement, or analogy; as, this argument applies well to the case.
Apply (v. i.) To make request; to have recourse with a view to gain something; to make application. (to); to solicit; as, to apply to a friend for information.
Apply (v. i.) To ply; to move.
Apply (v. i.) To apply or address one's self; to give application; to attend closely (to).
Appoggiatura (n.) A passing tone preceding an essential tone, and borrowing the time it occupies from that; a short auxiliary or grace note one degree above or below the principal note unless it be of the same harmony; -- generally indicated by a note of smaller size, as in the illustration above. It forms no essential part of the harmony.
Appointed (imp. & p. p.) of Appoint
Appointing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Appoint
Appoint (v. t.) To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out.
Appoint (v. t.) To fix by a decree, order, command, resolve, decision, or mutual agreement; to constitute; to ordain; to prescribe; to fix the time and place of.
Appoint (v. t.) To assign, designate, or set apart by authority.
Appoint (v. t.) To furnish in all points; to provide with everything necessary by way of equipment; to equip; to fit out.
Appoint (v. t.) To point at by way, or for the purpose, of censure or commendation; to arraign.
Appoint (v. t.) To direct, designate, or limit; to make or direct a new disposition of, by virtue of a power contained in a conveyance; -- said of an estate already conveyed.
Appoint (v. i.) To ordain; to determine; to arrange.
Appointable (a.) Capable of being appointed or constituted.
Appointee (v. t.) A person appointed.
Appointee (v. t.) A person in whose favor a power of appointment is executed.
Appointer (n.) One who appoints, or executes a power of appointment.
Appointive (a.) Subject to appointment; as, an appointive office.
Appointment (n.) The act of appointing; designation of a person to hold an office or discharge a trust; as, he erred by the appointment of unsuitable men.
Appointment (n.) The state of being appointed to som/ service or office; an office to which one is appointed; station; position; an, the appointment of treasurer.
Appointment (n.) Stipulation; agreement; the act of fixing by mutual agreement. Hence:: Arrangement for a meeting; engagement; as, they made an appointment to meet at six.
Appointment (n.) Decree; direction; established order or constitution; as, to submit to the divine appointments.
Appointment (n.) The exercise of the power of designating (under a "power of appointment") a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made.
Appointment (n.) Equipment, furniture, as for a ship or an army; whatever is appointed for use and management; outfit; (pl.) the accouterments of military officers or soldiers, as belts, sashes, swords.
Appointment (n.) An allowance to a person, esp. to a public officer; a perquisite; -- properly only in the plural.
Appointment (n.) A honorary part or exercise, as an oration, etc., at a public exhibition of a college; as, to have an appointment.
Appointor (n.) The person who selects the appointee. See Appointee, 2.
Apporter (n.) A bringer in; an importer.
Apportioned (imp. & p. p.) of Apportion
Apportioning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Apportion
Apportion (v. t.) To divide and assign in just proportion; to divide and distribute proportionally; to portion out; to allot; as, to apportion undivided rights; to apportion time among various employments.
Apportionateness (n.) The quality of being apportioned or in proportion.
Apportioner (n.) One who apportions.
Apportionment (n.) The act of apportioning; a dividing into just proportions or shares; a division or shares; a division and assignment, to each proprietor, of his just portion of an undivided right or property.
Appose (v. t.) To place opposite or before; to put or apply (one thing to another).
Appose (v. t.) To place in juxtaposition or proximity.
Appose (v. t.) To put questions to; to examine; to try. [Obs.] See Pose.
Apposed (a.) Placed in apposition; mutually fitting, as the mandibles of a bird's beak.
Apposer (n.) An examiner; one whose business is to put questions. Formerly, in the English Court of Exchequer, an officer who audited the sheriffs' accounts.
Apposite (a.) Very applicable; well adapted; suitable or fit; relevant; pat; -- followed by to; as, this argument is very apposite to the case.
Apposition (n.) The act of adding; application; accretion.
Apposition (n.) The putting of things in juxtaposition, or side by side; also, the condition of being so placed.
Apposition (n.) The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first.
Appositional (a.) Pertaining to apposition; put in apposition syntactically.
Appositive (a.) Of or relating to apposition; in apposition.
Appositive (n.) A noun in apposition.
Appraisable (a.) Capable of being appraised.
Appraisal (n.) A valuation by an authorized person; an appraisement.
Appraised (imp. & p. p.) of Appraise
Appraising (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Appraise
Appraise (v. t.) To set a value; to estimate the worth of, particularly by persons appointed for the purpose; as, to appraise goods and chattels.
Appraise (v. t.) To estimate; to conjecture.
Appraise (v. t.) To praise; to commend.
Appraisement (n.) The act of setting the value; valuation by an appraiser; estimation of worth.
Appraiser (n.) One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
Apprecation (n.) Earnest prayer; devout wish.
Apprecatory (a.) Praying or wishing good.
Appreciable (a.) Capable of being appreciated or estimated; large enough to be estimated; perceptible; as, an appreciable quantity.
Appreciant (a.) Appreciative.
Appreciated (imp. & p. p.) of Appreciate
Appreciating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Appreciate
Appreciate (v. t.) To set a price or value on; to estimate justly; to value.
Appreciate (v. t.) To raise the value of; to increase the market price of; -- opposed to depreciate.
Appreciate (v. t.) To be sensible of; to distinguish.
Appreciate (v. i.) To rise in value. [See note under Rise, v. i.]
Appreciatingly (adv.) In an appreciating manner; with appreciation.
Appreciation (n.) A just valuation or estimate of merit, worth, weight, etc.; recognition of excellence.
Appreciation (n.) Accurate perception; true estimation; as, an appreciation of the difficulties before us; an appreciation of colors.
Appreciation (n.) A rise in value; -- opposed to depreciation.
Appreciative (a.) Having or showing a just or ready appreciation or perception; as, an appreciative audience.
Appreciativeness (n.) The quality of being appreciative; quick recognition of excellence.
Appreciator (n.) One who appreciates.
Appreciatory (a.) Showing appreciation; appreciative; as, appreciatory commendation.
Apprehended (imp. & p. p.) of Apprehend
Apprehending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Apprehend
Apprehend (v. t.) To take or seize; to take hold of.
Apprehend (v. t.) Hence: To take or seize (a person) by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal.
Apprehend (v. t.) To take hold of with the understanding, that is, to conceive in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand; to recognize; to consider.
Apprehend (v. t.) To know or learn with certainty.
Apprehend (v. t.) To anticipate; esp., to anticipate with anxiety, dread, or fear; to fear.
Apprehend (v. i.) To think, believe, or be of opinion; to understand; to suppose.
Apprehend (v. i.) To be apprehensive; to fear.
Apprehender (n.) One who apprehends.
Apprehensibiity (n.) The quality of being apprehensible.
Apprehensible (a.) Capable of being apprehended or conceived.
Apprehension (n.) The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension.
Apprehension (n.) The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped.
Apprehension (n.) The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment; intellection; perception.
Apprehension (n.) Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.
Apprehension (n.) The faculty by which ideas are conceived; understanding; as, a man of dull apprehension.
Apprehension (n.) Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; distrust or fear at the prospect of future evil.
Apprehensive (a.) Capable of apprehending, or quick to do so; apt; discerning.
Apprehensive (a.) Knowing; conscious; cognizant.
Apprehensive (a.) Relating to the faculty of apprehension.
Apprehensive (a.) Anticipative of something unfavorable' fearful of what may be coming; in dread of possible harm; in expectation of evil.
Apprehensive (a.) Sensible; feeling; perceptive.
Apprehensively (adv.) In an apprehensive manner; with apprehension of danger.
Apprehensiveness (n.) The quality or state of being apprehensive.
Apprentice (n.) One who is bound by indentures or by legal agreement to serve a mechanic, or other person, for a certain time, with a view to learn the art, or trade, in which his master is bound to instruct him.