Applicationnoun
The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense
‘The application of this cream should reduce the swelling.’;
Vacancynoun
An unoccupied position or job.
Applicationnoun
The substance applied.
Vacancynoun
An available room in a hotel; guest house, etc.
Applicationnoun
The act of applying as a means; the employment of means to accomplish an end; specific use.
Vacancynoun
Empty space.
Applicationnoun
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.’;
Vacancynoun
Lack of intelligence or understanding.
Applicationnoun
(computing) 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 iPhone application can connect to most social networks.’;
Vacancynoun
(physics) A defect in a crystal caused by the absence of an atom in a lattice
Applicationnoun
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.’;
Vacancynoun
The quality or state of being vacant; emptiness; hence, freedom from employment; intermission; leisure; idleness; listlessness.
‘All dispositions to idleness or vacancy, even before they are habits, are dangerous.’;
Applicationnoun
A petition, entreaty, or other request, with the adposition for denoting the subject matter.
‘Their application for a deferral of the hearing was granted.’;
Vacancynoun
That which is vacant.
Applicationnoun
The act of requesting, claiming, or petitioning something.
Vacancynoun
Empty space; vacuity; vacuum.
‘How is't with you,That you do bend your eye on vacancy?’;
Applicationnoun
Diligence; close thought or attention.
Vacancynoun
An open or unoccupied space between bodies or things; an interruption of continuity; chasm; gap; as, a vacancy between buildings; a vacancy between sentences or thoughts.
Applicationnoun
A kind of needlework; appliqué.
Vacancynoun
Unemployed time; interval of leisure; time of intermission; vacation.
‘Time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies given both to schools and universities.’; ‘No interim, not a minute's vacancy.’; ‘Those little vacancies from toil are sweet.’;
Applicationnoun
(obsolete) Compliance.
Vacancynoun
A place or post unfilled; an unoccupied office; as, a vacancy in the senate, in a school, etc.
Applicationnoun
The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb.
Vacancynoun
being unoccupied
Applicationnoun
The thing applied.
‘He invented a new application by which blood might be stanched.’;
Vacancynoun
an empty area or space;
‘the huge desert voids’; ‘the emptiness of outer space’; ‘without their support he'll be ruling in a vacuum’;
Applicationnoun
The act of applying as a means; the employment of means to accomplish an end; specific use.
‘If a right course . . . be taken with children, there will not be much need of the application of the common rewards and punishments.’;
Vacancynoun
an unoccupied position or job
‘a vacancy for a shorthand typist’;
Applicationnoun
The act of directing or referring something to a particular case, to discover or illustrate agreement or disagreement, fitness, or correspondence; as, I make the remark, and leave you to make the application; the application of a theory.
Vacancynoun
an available room in a hotel or other establishment providing accommodation
‘vacancies in local authority homes’;
Applicationnoun
That part of a sermon or discourse in which the principles before laid down and illustrated are applied to practical uses; the "moral" of a fable.
Vacancynoun
empty space
‘Cathy stared into vacancy, seeing nothing’;
Applicationnoun
The capacity of being practically applied or used; relevancy; as, a rule of general application.
Vacancynoun
lack of intelligence or understanding
‘vacancy, vanity, and inane deception’;
Applicationnoun
The act of fixing the mind or closely applying one's self; assiduous effort; close attention; as, to injure the health by application to study.
‘Had his application been equal to his talents, his progress might have been greater.’;
Applicationnoun
The act of making request of soliciting; as, an application for an office; he made application to a court of chancery.
Applicationnoun
A request; a document containing a request; as, his application was placed on file.
Applicationnoun
a verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school;
‘December 31 is the deadline for applications’;
Applicationnoun
the act of bringing something to bear; using it for a particular purpose;
‘he advocated the application of statistics to the problem’; ‘a novel application of electronics to medical diagnosis’;
Applicationnoun
a program that gives a computer instructions that provide the user with tools to accomplish a task;
‘he has tried several different word processing applications’;
Applicationnoun
the work of applying something;
‘the doctor prescribed a topical application of iodine’; ‘a complete bleach requires several applications’; ‘the surface was ready for a coating of paint’;
Applicationnoun
liquid preparation having a soothing or antiseptic or medicinal action when applied to the skin;
‘a lotion for dry skin’;
Applicationnoun
a diligent effort;
‘it is a job requiring serious application’;
