Apply vs. Submit — What's the Difference?

In mathematics and computer science, apply is a function that applies a function to arguments. It is central to programming languages derived from lambda calculus, such as LISP and Scheme, and also in functional languages.

Submit is an EP by the British band Pitchshifter, released on 23 March 1992 by Earache on LP, MC and CD.French black metal band Blut aus Nord covered "Bastardiser" for their EP Debemur Morti.

Make a formal application or request

To yield or surrender (oneself) to the will or authority of another.

Be applicable or relevant

To subject to a condition or process

Put or spread (a substance) on a surface

To present (something) to the consideration or judgment of another

Give one's full attention to a task; work hard

To offer as a proposition or contention

To bring into contact with something; put on

To accept or give in to the authority, power, or will of another.

To put to or adapt for a special use

To allow oneself to be subjected to something

To put into action

(intransitive) To yield or give way to another.

To engage (oneself) in a task with close attention or persistence

(transitive) To yield (something) to another, as when defeated.

To be pertinent or relevant

(ambitransitive) To enter or put forward for approval, consideration, marking etc.

To request or seek assistance, employment, or admission

(transitive) To subject; to put through a process.

(transitive) To lay or place; to put (one thing to another)

To win a fight against (an opponent) by submission.

(transitive) To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case

To let down; to lower.

(transitive) To make use of, declare, or pronounce, as suitable, fitting, or relative

To put or place under.

(transitive) To put closely; to join; to engage and employ diligently, or with attention

To let down; to lower.

(transitive) To address; to refer; generally used reflexively.

To put or place under.

(intransitive) To submit oneself as a candidate (with the adposition "to" designating the recipient of the submission, and the adposition "for" designating the position).

To yield, resign, or surrender to power, will, or authority; - often with the reflexive pronoun.

(intransitive) To pertain or be relevant to a specified individual or group.

To leave or commit to the discretion or judgment of another or others; to refer; as, to submit a controversy to arbitrators; to submit a question to the court; - often followed by a dependent proposition as the object.

(obsolete) To busy; to keep at work; to ply.

To yield one's person to the power of another; to give up resistance; to surrender.

(obsolete) To visit.

To yield one's opinion to the opinion of authority of another; to be subject; to acquiesce.

Alternative spelling of appley

To be submissive or resigned; to yield without murmuring.

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.

Refer for judgment or consideration;

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.

Put before;

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.

Yield to the control of another

To fix closely; to engage and employ diligently, or with attention; to attach; to incline.

Hand over formally

To direct or address.

Refer to another person for decision or judgment;

To betake; to address; to refer; - used reflexively.

Submit or yield to another's wish or opinion;

To busy; to keep at work; to ply.

Accept or undergo, often unwillingly;

To visit.

Make an application as for a job or funding;

To suit; to agree; to have some connection, agreement, or analogy; as, this argument applies well to the case.

Make over as a return;

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.

Accept as inevitable;

To ply; to move.

To apply or address one's self; to give application; to attend closely (to).

Put into service; make work or employ (something) for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose;

Be pertinent or relevant or applicable;

Ask (for something);

Apply to a surface;

Be applicable to; as to an analysis;

Give or convey physically;

Avail oneself to;

Ensure observance of laws and rules;

Refer (a word or name) to a person or thing;

Apply oneself to;