(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To fix closely; to engage and employ diligently, or with attention; to attach; to incline.
(v. t.) To direct or address.
(v. t.) To betake; to address; to refer; -- used reflexively.
(v. t.) To busy; to keep at work; to ply.
(v. t.) To visit.
(v. i.) To suit; to agree; to have some connection, agreement, or analogy; as, this argument applies well to the case.
(v. i.) 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.
(v. i.) To ply; to move.
(v. i.) To apply or address one's self; to give application; to attend closely (to).
Example Sentences:
(1) Renal micropuncture and microdissection techniques with ultramicro fluid analysis have been applied to evaluate single nephron function in the skate, Raja erinacea.
(2) Spectrophotometric determination of the sulfhydryl content in the animal tissue before (control) and after using 6,6'-Dithiodinicotinic acid is applied.
(3) Microionophoretically applied excitatory amino acids induced firing of extracellularly recorded single units in a tissue slice preparation of the mouse cochlear nucleus, and the similarly applied antagonist 2-amino-5-phosphonovalerate (2APV) was demonstrated to be a selective N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist.
(4) The content of the cavities was not stained by any of the immunocytochemical reactions applied.
(5) However, some contactless transactions are processed offline so may not appear on a customer’s account until after the block has been applied.” It says payments that had been made offline on the day of cancellation may be applied to accounts and would be refunded when the customer identified them; payments made on days after the cancellation will not be taken from an account.
(6) The models are applied to estimate the demand for tobacco products in Finland.
(7) The way how to apply this fixator is described in details.
(8) Standard nerve conduction techniques using constant measured distances were applied to evaluate the median, ulnar and radial nerves.
(9) Here, we review the nature of the heart sound signal and the various signal-processing techniques that have been applied to PCG analysis.
(10) According to the finite element analysis, the design bases of fixed restorations applied in the teeth accompanied with the absorption of the alveolar bone were preferred.
(11) From these results it was concluded that FITC-Con A staining method applied to smear specimens is more advantageous in the rapidity and the simplicity for tumor cell diagnosis than section specimen method.
(12) Median effect analysis was applied for the evaluation of in vitro effect by the growth inhibition, and the in vivo effect by comparison of the increase of life span (ILS) in a combined group with the sum of ILS's in 2 single agent groups.
(13) Before carrier vaccines are applied, these risks must be thoroughly evaluated case-by-case.
(14) We conclude that both exogenously applied PAF by inhalation and antigen exposure are capable of inducing LAR in sensitized guinea pigs, and thus the priming effect of immunization and PAF may contribute to the development of LAR observed in asthma.
(15) J., 4 (1985) 1709-1714) and fast pH changes were applied with a technique developed by Davies et al.
(16) I fear that I will have to go through another witch-hunt in order to apply for this benefit."
(17) Eddy current transducers measured relative displacements under application of static loads, serially applied in the axial, mediolateral, and craniocaudal directions.
(18) An innovative magnetic resonance imaging technique was applied to the measurement of blood flow in the abdominal aorta.
(19) The authors suggest that the outstanding high sensitivity of the above mentioned two tests applied parallelly reveals that they highlights partially different aspects of coronary artery disease, and that is why the overlapping between the methods is relatively small.
(20) We applied a flow cytometry apparatus (FCM) to differentiating Exophiala dermatitidis, E. moniliae and E. jeanselmei from each other.
Misapply
Definition:
(v. t.) To apply wrongly; to use for a wrong purpose; as, to misapply a name or title; to misapply public money.
Example Sentences:
(1) The concept of normalization, if misapplied, can lead to the same result.
(2) Two patients were missing tubal rings on one side, and the remaining patient had a tubal ring misapplied to the round ligament.
(3) Problems have arisen because the concept has been misapplied.
(4) Finally, the evidence for misapplied constancy scaling in the horizontal-vertical illusion in relation to a retinal theory is discussed.
(5) Limited attempts to explain size illusions in terms of the projected stimuli that preserve perceptual constancy are by no means new; Thiéry (51) proposed such a view in the later part of the last century, and in recent times there has been a spate of such proposals including the " misapplied constancy hypothesis" advanced by Gregory (2).
(6) It is shown that his categories have been regularly misapplied in the interest of establishing the scientific status of psychoanalysis, or of proposing a new theoretical structure.
(7) Elastic traction is an important but occasionally misapplied component of upper-extremity dynamic splints.
(8) Because of his lack of clinical material or anecdotal illustration, Hartmann's theoretical scaffolding has been frequently misunderstood and misapplied.
(9) But even one it authors, Republican Jim Sensenbrenner, has questioned whether the act has been misapplied in the cases revealed to the Guardian by former CIA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
(10) But a team of academics re-examined the DfE's figures and said it had crudely distorted and misapplied the data.
(11) Suárez’s lawyer, Alejandro Balbi, successfully argued that Fifa had misapplied its own rules when considering the case and that the sanction it imposed on other football-related activities involving the Uruguayan was disproportionate.
(12) Statistical significance and P values are often misunderstood and frequently misapplied.
(13) Central to the argument is that the minister “misconstrued or misapplied” his powers to cancel Newman’s visa, and that he did not take into account Newman’s right to political communication.
(14) Anthony Hudson, representing the media that had applied for reporting restrictions to be lifted, had argued that the Judicial Proceedings (Regulation of Reports) Act 1926 was designed to "prevent injury to public morals" and was being misapplied as means of enforcing privacy in divorce proceedings.
(15) "A very tiny exception" Dominic Young, a former chairman of the NLA, argued that 2013's supreme court case, which the ECJ concurred with, misapplied the temporary copying exemption.
(16) May said that at best stop and search applied fairly could lead to arrests and build community confidence in the police but at worst when it was misapplied it undermined public confidence and wasted police time.
(17) If the tribunal misunderstands the code, or misapplies it, they’ve applied a standard which is not the standard of conduct applicable to the conduct of the practitioner.
(18) (5) Apply epidemiological expertise where it is called for, and do not misapply it where it is unlikely to help.
(19) He said: "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies."
(20) BP misinterprets and misapplies data while ignoring published literature that doesn’t support its claims,” the trustees said in a statement .