App

name
/æp//æʔp̚/US

Etymology

Shortening of application.

  1. borrowed from App

Definitions

  1. A surname from German.

  2. Abbreviation of appeals.

  3. Alternative form of app.

  4. + 10 more definitions
    1. Abbreviation of approach.

      • 10 Station App
    2. An application (program), especially a small one designed for a mobile device.

      • A visual tool can be thought of as a graphics app that generates most of your program's GUI code for you
      • So is a spreadsheet app, but I'm not going to put those on a web site any time soon.
      • The Web browser was the killer app that kickstarted the Internet and, in turn, enabled it to be embedded in everything
    3. application (use, purpose

      application (use, purpose; not a computer program)

      • SCULLY: What are these chips used for? PENDRELL: Video games, brake systems, they're finding new apps every day. I just read about one being designed to help the severely disabled operate computers using brainwaves.
    4. application (to a college etc.)

      • “Ky—please don't take this the wrong way—I actually have to wear a dress from our line. You know, to show off my marketing materials on my college app. So, I'm working on it with Hannah.”
    5. appetizer

      • The food is some of Breck's best: apps like sweet potato gnocchi with smoked chicken and sage cream[…]
      • If you lay out a platter of these exciting, beautiful vegetarian appetizers, the other apps will pale in comparison.
    6. An appearance in a game.

      • That player has had ten apps this season.
    7. Initialism of acute-phase protein.

    8. Initialism of amyloid precursor protein.

    9. Initialism of ammonium polyphosphate.

    10. Initialism of authorized push payment.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for App. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA