(n.) The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb.
(n.) The thing applied.
(n.) The act of applying as a means; the employment of means to accomplish an end; specific use.
(n.) The act of directing or referring something to a particular case, to discover or illustrate agreement or disagreement, fitness, or correspondence; as, I make the remark, and leave you to make the application; the application of a theory.
(n.) Hence, in specific uses: (a) That part of a sermon or discourse in which the principles before laid down and illustrated are applied to practical uses; the "moral" of a fable. (b) The use of the principles of one science for the purpose of enlarging or perfecting another; as, the application of algebra to geometry.
(n.) The capacity of being practically applied or used; relevancy; as, a rule of general application.
(n.) The act of fixing the mind or closely applying one's self; assiduous effort; close attention; as, to injure the health by application to study.
(n.) The act of making request of soliciting; as, an application for an office; he made application to a court of chancery.
(n.) A request; a document containing a request; as, his application was placed on file.
Example Sentences:
(1) He added: "There is a rigorous review process of applications submitted by the executive branch, spearheaded initially by five judicial branch lawyers who are national security experts and then by the judges, to ensure that the court's authorizations comport with what the applicable statutes authorize."
(2) Application of 40 microM NiCl2 reversibly blocked It while leaving Is intact, whereas 20 microM CdCl2 reversibly blocked Is, but not It.
(3) This should not be a serious limitation to the application of the RIA in the detection of venous thrombosis.
(4) An effective graft-surveillance protocol needs to be applicable to all patients; practical in terms of time, effort, and cost; reliable; and able to detect, grade, and assess progression of lesions.
(5) An application is made to the validity of cancer risk items included in a cancer registry.
(6) In this paper, we show representative experiments illustrating some characteristics of the procedure which may have wide application in clinical microbiology.
(7) Furthermore, all of the sera from seven other patients with shock reactions following the topical application of chlorhexidine preparation also showed high RAST counts.
(8) Effects of OT injection and OT application were independent.
(9) After a discussion of the therapeutic relationship, several coping strategies which have been used successfully by many women are described and therapeutic applications are offered.
(10) While stereology is the principal technique, particularly in its application to the parenchyma, other compartments such as the airways and vasculature demand modifications or different methods altogether.
(11) The clinical usefulness of neonatal narcotic abstinence scales is reviewed, with special reference to their application in treatment.
(12) This paper has considered the effects and potential application of PFCs, their emulsions and emulsion components for regulating growth and metabolic functions of microbial, animal and plant cells in culture.
(13) Local application of 8-OH-DPAT (0-5 micrograms) into the median raphe nucleus, facilitated male rat sexual behavior, as evidenced by a decrease in number of intromissions preceding ejaculation and in time to ejaculation.
(14) It was established that nonsurgical methods of transplantation with laboratory animals were less time-consuming and were more readily applicable.
(15) High-dose oral and intrathecal applications of viatamin B12 are also possible in the individual case.
(16) Total body dose of 2,4-D was determined in 10 volunteers following exposure to sprayed turf 1 hour following application and in 10 volunteers exposed 24 hours following application.
(17) Some dental applications of the pressure measuring sheet, such as the measurement of biting pressure and balance during normal and unilateral biting, were examined.
(18) If black people could only sort out these self-inflicted problems themselves, everything would be OK. After all, doesn't every business say it welcomes job applicants from all backgrounds?
(19) Eddy current transducers measured relative displacements under application of static loads, serially applied in the axial, mediolateral, and craniocaudal directions.
(20) Many examples are given to demonstrate the applications of these programs, and special emphasis has been laid on the problem of treating a point in tissue with different doses per fraction on alternate treatment days.
Candidature
Definition:
(n.) Candidacy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fecafoot president Iya Mohammed said: "I've never met Lothar Matthäus but his candidature has been forwarded to us as well as that of former Ivory Coast coach Vahid Halilhodzic and some 10 others.
(2) I understood that Sarkozy supported the candidature of Qatar.
(3) He was supposedly in the running for chairman of the BBC Trust, for a mayor of London candidature, and there was even talk of a role in motor racing.
(4) Marked differences in failure rates were observed between candidature and doctoral education even within universities.
(5) The FA is also keen to involve former internationals in some way and the possible candidatures of Steven Gerrard, Frank Lampard and Rio Ferdinand have been discussed in FA circles.
(6) As a result of learning this information, the FA Board has this morning concluded that it must suspend its support for Mr Platini’s candidature for the Fifa presidency until the legal process has been concluded and the position is clear.
(7) In a letter announcing the formal submission of his candidature, sent to the presidents and secretary-generals of all 209 national football associations around the world affiliated to Fifa, Ali included the soothing assurance: “I am one of you, an FA president, and I know how hard you strive to define football.” Promising to restore Fifa’s reputation from the crisis over its leadership – Blatter and the secretary-general, Jérôme Valcke, are suspended and a succession of other senior figures have been banned, indicted or suspended for corruption allegations – Ali praised the national FA presidents whose votes he is seeking as honest and committed.
(8) If his ban is lifted, Fifa said in a statement that Platini’s candidacy would be put in the hands of its Ad-hoc Electoral Committee which would “decide, depending on the respective exact point in time, on how to proceed with the candidature concerned”.
(9) His candidature was greeted with much press scoffing, but his six-week campaign was hard-working and effective.
(10) This study was intended to test the candidature of the prepositus-vestibular nuclear complex for being the location of the oculomotor neural integrator (Robinson's integrator).
(11) Surprised at the level of attention, but knowing perhaps that after years on the sidelines, her candidature could do the party a vital service.
(12) But in 1976, when the selection committee met to consider it, just over half of the 37 delegates supported his candidature against the competition of Maureen Watt, daughter of the SNP's Hamish Watt, MP for Banffshire.
(13) A Labour investigation following allegations that Rahman won its mayoral candidature with the help of ineligible voters found no evidence of this.
(14) The candidature of hsp-70 for P. falciparum malaria vaccine thus needs to be re-evaluated.
(15) Yet following a meeting at Wembley on Wednesday, the entire FA board agreed to continue backing Platini’s candidature .
(16) But if we get through to the final two, we believe we can win.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tory leadership contenders Michael Gove and Andrea Leadsom agree to publish tax returns There was a feeling across the party that, while Gove might survive a round or two of the voting process that begins on Tuesday, his dramatic decision to knife Johnson by declaring him unfit to run the country and then announcing his own candidature – after years of insisting he was not interested in the top job – had left him in an all but hopeless position.
(17) A separate classification was made for preclinical (3 years of 'Candidature') and clinical (4 years of 'Doctorat') phases since, among the 11 Belgian medical schools, four teach only preclinical subjects.
(18) Leading the BBC – a job that mixes business with politics like no other – requires unimpeachable credentials, so Fairhead's candidature put her immediately under scrutiny.
(19) We haven’t presented our candidature and it is not our intention to do so,” he told Agence France-Presse .
(20) Sheikh Salman, the Asian Football Confederation president, is expected to announce his candidature early next week after agreeing to fill the void created by the suspension of the Uefa president, Michel Platini, over an alleged “disloyal payment” from Blatter, who has also been suspended by world football’s governing body.