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
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
{f} make a request; implement; put to use; enforce; spread on a surface (such as paint, ointment, etc.); refer; (Medicine) place, lay (e.g.: "apply the hand to the chest")
Running a function on a particular parameter is called applying the function See E7
v t (a function to a list) to call the function with arguments that are the elements of the list {"Applying the function + to a list of integers returns the sum of the elements of that list "}
ask (for something); "He applied for a leave of absence"; "She applied for college"; "apply for a job"
To fix closely; to engage and employ diligently, or with attention; to attach; to incline