Petitionnoun
A formal, written request made to an official person or organized body, often containing many signatures.
Applicationnoun
The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense
‘The application of this cream should reduce the swelling.’;
Petitionnoun
A compilation of signatures built in order to exert moral authority in support of a specific cause.
Applicationnoun
The substance applied.
Petitionnoun
(legal) A formal written request for judicial action.
Applicationnoun
The act of applying as a means; the employment of means to accomplish an end; specific use.
Petitionnoun
A prayer; a supplication; an entreaty.
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.’;
Petitionverb
(transitive) To make a request to, commonly in written form.
‘The villagers petitioned the council to demolish the dangerous building.’;
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.’;
Petitionnoun
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.
‘A house of prayer and petition for thy people.’; ‘This last petition heard of all her prayer.’;
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.’;
Petitionnoun
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.
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.’;
Petitionverb
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.
‘You have . . . petitioned all the gods for my prosperity.’;
Applicationnoun
The act of requesting, claiming, or petitioning something.
Petitionverb
To make a petition or solicitation.
Applicationnoun
Diligence; close thought or attention.
Petitionnoun
a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority
Applicationnoun
A kind of needlework; appliqué.
Petitionnoun
reverent petition to a deity
Applicationnoun
(obsolete) Compliance.
Petitionverb
write a petition for something to somebody; request formally and in writing
Applicationnoun
The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb.
Petition
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.
Applicationnoun
The thing applied.
‘He invented a new application by which blood might be stanched.’;
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.’;
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.
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.
Applicationnoun
The capacity of being practically applied or used; relevancy; as, a rule of general application.
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’;
