used in actual practice or to work out practical problems: applied science
adjective
- Applied is something that can be used for a definite purpose.
Using science to figure out the volume of water in a swimming pool is an example of an applied science.
- The definition of applied is you used something to solve a problem or answer a question.
If you pressed on the brakes to stop the car, then that is an example of how you applied the brakes.
- Applied means that something had an appropriate connection to something else.
A certain rule than needs to be followed only by certain people is an example of rules that are applied to certain people.
- Applied is defined as filling out paperwork in order to receive something, like a job or admission to a school.
If you answered questions about yourself and your work experience in hopes of getting a job, that is an example of applied for a job.
- Applied means you tried your very best when doing a task.
If you completed all class assignments and made a perfect score on the final, then that is an example of how you applied yourself.
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adjective
Put into practice or to a particular use: applied physics.
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Adjective
(not comparable)
- put into practical use
- of a branch of science, serving another branch of science or engineering
Verb
- simple past tense and past participle of apply
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Sentence Examples
- Lifting the hair off the back of her neck, he applied the cool towel.
- She applied the brakes and the dust cloud caught up, cloaking the road so thickly that visibility was down to the front of the car.
- The division of labor applied to science will yield substantial results.
- The word is also sometimes applied to a heavy timber fitted with iron spikes or projections to be thrown down upon besiegers, and to the large work known as a "cavalier."
- That God is love and that the purpose of His love is the moral organization of humanity in the "Kingdom of God" - this idea, with its immense range of application-.-is applied in Ritschl's initial datum.
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