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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/applied/#m1)

2) Applied describes knowledge used for practical work, not just theory, as in applied maths or applied science. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/applied/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/applied/#x1)
- I applied the rule and got the right answer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/applied/#x2)
- Dad applied for a new job. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/applied/#x3)
- When a force is applied, the box starts to move. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/applied/#x4)
- The rule applied to everyone in the class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/applied/#x5)
- He applied a thin layer of glue. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/applied/#x6)
- Applied science uses discoveries to make useful things. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/applied/#x7)
- She soon reached the corner of the sky that was broken, and applied the paste and mended it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/applied/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/21-news-deepfakes-history/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «applied» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/applied/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.