Petition vs. Application — What's the Difference?

A petition is a request to do something, most commonly addressed to a government official or public entity. Petitions to a deity are a form of prayer called supplication.

The act of applying.

A solemn supplication or request, especially to a superior authority; an entreaty.

Something applied, such as a cosmetic or curative agent.

A formal written document requesting a right or benefit from a person or group in authority.

The act of putting something to a special use or purpose

A formal written application seeking a court's intervention and action on a matter

A specific use to which something is put

A pleading initiating a legal case in some civil courts

The capacity of being usable; relevance

Something requested or entreated

Close attention; diligence

To address a petition to

A request, as for assistance, employment, or admission to a school.

To ask for by petition; request formally

The form or document on which such a request is made.

To make a request, especially formally

(Computers) A computer program designed for a specific task or use.

A formal, written request made to an official person or organized body, often containing many signatures.

Of or being a computer program designed for a specific task or use

A compilation of signatures built in order to exert moral authority in support of a specific cause.

The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense

(legal) A formal written request for judicial action.

The substance applied.

A prayer; a supplication; an entreaty.

The act of applying as a means; the employment of means to accomplish an end; specific use.

(transitive) To make a request to, commonly in written form.

The act of directing or referring something to a particular case, to discover or illustrate agreement or disagreement, fitness, or correspondence.

A prayer; a supplication; an imploration; an entreaty; especially, a request of a solemn or formal kind; a prayer to the Supreme Being, or to a person of superior power, rank, or authority; also, a single clause in such a prayer.

(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.)

A formal written request addressed to an official person, or to an organized body, having power to grant it; specifically (Law), a supplication to government, in either of its branches, for the granting of a particular grace or right; - in distinction from a memorial, which calls certain facts to mind; also, the written document.

A verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school, course or similar.

To make a prayer or request to; to ask from; to solicit; to entreat; especially, to make a formal written supplication, or application to, as to any branch of the government; as, to petition the court; to petition the governor.

A petition, entreaty, or other request, with the adposition for denoting the subject matter.

To make a petition or solicitation.

The act of requesting, claiming, or petitioning something.

A formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority

Diligence; close thought or attention.

Reverent petition to a deity

A kind of needlework; appliqué.

Write a petition for something to somebody; request formally and in writing

(obsolete) Compliance.

The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb.

The thing 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; as, I make the remark, and leave you to make the application; the application of a theory.

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.

The capacity of being practically applied or used; relevancy; as, a rule of general application.

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.

The act of making request of soliciting; as, an application for an office; he made application to a court of chancery.

A request; a document containing a request; as, his application was placed on file.

A verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school;

The act of bringing something to bear; using it for a particular purpose;

A program that gives a computer instructions that provide the user with tools to accomplish a task;

The work of applying something;

Liquid preparation having a soothing or antiseptic or medicinal action when applied to the skin;

A diligent effort;