"Apply" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH
1. To make a formal request or petitlon, usually ln writing, to a court, officer, board, or company, for the granting of some favor, or of some rule or order, which ls within his or their power or dls-cretion. For example, to apply for an ln-junction, for a pardon, for a policy of in-surance
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.
To visit.
To busy; to keep at work; to ply.
To direct or address.
To ply; to move.
To fix closely; to engage and employ diligently, or with
attention; to attach; to incline.
To suit; to agree; to have some connection, agreement, or
analogy; as, this argument applies well to the case.
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.
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.
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.
To betake; to address; to refer; -- used reflexively.
To apply or address one's self; to give application; to
attend closely (to).
Kitai blinked slowly. "Why would you use the same word for these things? That is ridiculous.""We have a lot of words like that," Tavi said. "They can mean more than one thing.""That is stupid," Kitai said. "It is difficult enough to communicate without making it more complicated with words that mean more than one thing.
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