applied

«applied» in Mova's school dictionary: the past form of «apply»: she applied for a job, he… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (past form of apply: applied); adjective (applied — used in practice, as in applied science)

meaning for a pupil

1) Applied is the past form of «apply»: she applied for a job, he applied sun cream, the rule applied to everyone. tree →

2) Applied describes knowledge used for practical work, not just theory, as in applied maths or applied science. tree →

sense in the lessons

In school: you applied a rule, a method, or a formula to solve a problem; you applied glue or paint. In science, a force is applied to an object (pushed or pulled). In everyday life people applied for jobs, passports or places at school. «Applied maths» is maths used in real problems.

examples

• She applied sun cream before going to the beach. tree →
• I applied the rule and got the right answer. tree →
• Dad applied for a new job. tree →
• When a force is applied, the box starts to move. tree →
• The rule applied to everyone in the class. tree →
• He applied a thin layer of glue. tree →
• Applied science uses discoveries to make useful things. tree →
• She soon reached the corner of the sky that was broken, and applied the paste and mended it. tree →

note

From «apply»: apply → applied (y changes to i + ed), applying keeps the y. Nouns: application, applicant. «Apply to» = be relevant to; «apply for» = ask officially for something.

In the corpora

• It was reported that the history pictures went wrong because rules meant to make pictures more varied were applied even where history was clear.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «applied» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.