Translation
to apply (a rule, a method); to lay one thing on another
Word origin
From Latin applicare, made of ad, to, and plicare, to fold or lay against. The literal Latin picture is of laying one surface flat onto another, which is still the older of the two Esperanto senses.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- applicare
- English cognates
- apply, application, pliable, complicated
Examples
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We have to apply the same rule to everyone.
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The doctor applied a new method.
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Apply what you learned at school.
is for rules, methods and remedies: you apply a law a case, a theory a problem, an ointment a wound. What it does not cover is the English "apply for a job" - that is i for the post or simply , and using there is one of the standard English-speaker slips. The noun is apliko, an application in the sense of a use, and o is the software kind. a means applicable, which is a handy little chain: root, -- for possible, -a for the adjective.
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