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apple Definition

ap·ple (ap′əl)

noun

  1. a round, firm, fleshy, edible fruit with a green, yellow, or red skin and small seeds
  2. any of the trees (genus Malus) of the rose family bearing this fruit, widely distributed in temperate regions
  3. any of various plants bearing applelike fruits, or growths, as the May apple, love apple, etc.

Etymology: ME appel < OE æppel, fruit, apple (also, eyeball, anything round); akin to OIr aball (Welsh afall), apple tree

apple Idioms

the Apple

the Big Apple

apple Synonyms

apple

n.

  1. Varieties of apples include: MacIntosh, Baldwin, Delicious, Russet, Northern Spy, Snow, crab, Jonathan, Rome Beauty, Albermarle pippin, Missouri pippin, Newtown pippin, yellow Newtown, Rhode Island Greening, Arkansas Black, Wolf River, Fameuse, Gravenstein, Wealthy, Ben Davis, Granny Smith, Grimes Golden, Oldenburg, red Astrakhan, white Astrakhan, Russian Astrakhan, Winesap, Stayman Winesap, yellow transparent, York Imperial, Janet, king, Lawyer, Maiden's Blush, Shockley, Twenty-ounce, Peck's Pleasant, Pennock, Willow Twig, red June, Early Harvest, early Redbird, Cortland.

  2. Something suggesting an apple

    oak apple, gall, gallnut, nutgall, custard apple, fir apple, balsam apple, May apple, love apple, egg apple, hawthorn berry, Dead Sea apple, apple of Sodom, mad apple, rose apple, hip, haw.

apple Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • caramelize: The innovative Brecon-based company is finding a healthy demand for caramelized apple and pear combined with either mixed spices or cinnamon.
  • grate: Add 1 coarsely grated apple, 1 tbsp raisins and 2 tsp maple syrup and serve.
  • bake: Now, just before serving and while the mixture is still foaming, add the baked apples.
  • chop: Place chopped apples in a pan with a little water and cook until soft.

Adjective modifier

  • stewed: Fruit makes a great, filling dessert try stewed apples or poached pears at this time of year.
  • rotten: A few rotten apples had effectively contaminated the whole barrel.
  • juicy: Ripe, juicy apples eaten at bedtime every night will cure some of the worst forms of constipation.
  • ripe: Ripe, juicy apples eaten at bedtime every night will cure some of the worst forms of constipation.

Modifies a noun

  • pie: Best Ever Apple Pie Like the title says this really is the best apple pie you could ever make or eat.
  • juice: Blend the lime first in half of the apple juice.
  • orchard: Many of it's executive styled offices overlook the apple orchard.
  • cider: Or how about a shot of hot spiced apple cider or even the classic warming mulled wine?
  • strudel: Tho there was a FABULOUS apple strudel served the last day at the lunch buffet.
  • blossom: Its branches are budding and the apple blossoms slowly unfold.

Noun used with modifier

  • toffee: For the less health conscious toffee apples are a traditional treat!
  • crab: You could do the same with crab apples, passing the juice through muslin a few times in order to get a clear liquid.
  • cider: Of these it is estimated three quarters are cider apples.
  • windfall: The windfall apples that were bruised were usually turned into apple wine, which is really easy to make.
  • bramley: If I squeeze it a jet of molten bramley apple is going to squirt out.
  • custard: One poem compared the custard apple and the mango: " The dangling miracle of cognition " .
apple Quotes

No, the serpent did not Seduce Eve to the apple. All that's simply Corruption of the facts. Adam ate the apple. Eve ate Adam. The serpent ate Eve. This is the dark intestine. The serpent, meanwhile, Sleeps his meal off in Paradiseö Smiling to hear God's querulous calling.

—Hughes,Ted (Edward James)

And for an apple damn'd mankind.

—Otway,Thomas

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

—Anonymous

The pretension is nothing; the performance everything. A good apple is better than an insipid peach.

—Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh

I have a rendezvous with Death At some disputed barricade, When Spring comes round with rustling shade And apple blossoms fill the air. I have a rendezvous with Death When Spring brings back blue days and fair.

—Seeger, Alan

For thus saith the L of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.

—Bible (Old Testament)

He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings.

—Bible (Old Testament)

When Eve upon the first of Men The apple pressed with specious cant, Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was not Adamant!

—Honorius of Autun

One day, there's a hand that goes over the face and changes it.You look like an apple that isn't young anymore.

—Garbo, Greta pseudonym of  Greta Lovisa Gustafsson

Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs Aboutthelilting houseand happyasthegrasswasgreen.

—Thomas, Dylan Marlais

Oh thou, that dear and happy isle The garden of the world ere while, Thou paradise of four seas, Which heaven planted us to please, But, to exclude the world, did guard With watery if not flaming sword; What luckless apple did we taste, To make us mortal, and thee waste?

—Marvell, Andrew

All millionaires love a baked apple.

—Firbank, (ArthurAnnesley) Ronald

It was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world.

—Milton,John