How do you use the word "application" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "application" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "application": Please submit your application before the deadline. This theory has practical applications in medicine.

Application Meaning

/ˌæp.lɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/

Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounThe act of physically applying or laying on.

nounThe substance applied.

Sentence Examples

Please submit your application before the deadline.

This theory has practical applications in medicine.

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CEFR Practice Quiz

He submitted his job ____ before the deadline last Friday.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *pel- Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ-der. Latin plicō Latin applicō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin applicātiōbor. Old French aplicacionbor. Middle English applicacioun English application From Late Middle English applicacioun, borrowed from Old French aplicacion (French application), from Latin applicātiōnem, accusative singular of applicātiō (“attachment; application, inclination”), from applicō (“join to, attach; apply”). Equivalent to apply + -ication.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"His body was stripped, laid out upon a table, and covered with a hearsecloth, when some of his attendants perceived symptoms of returning animation, and by the use of warm applications, internal and external, gradually restored him to life." — 1857, John Eadie, John Francis Waller, William John Macquorn Rankine, The Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography:

"All that I have hitherto contended for, is, that whatsoever rigor is necessary, it is more to be us'd, the younger children are; and having by a due application wrought its effect, it is to be relax'd, and chang'd into a milder sort of government." — 1693, [John Locke], “§43”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], →OCLC:

"Saeed straightened and held up his phone, directing its camera at the heavens, consulting an application that indicated the names of celestial bodies he did not know." — 2017, Mohsin Hamid, Exit West, Hamish Hamilton, page 15:

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