applied
pronunciation
How to pronounce applied in British English:
UK [əˈplaɪd]
How to pronounce applied in American English:
US [əˈplaɪd]
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- Adjective:
- that are used
- concerned with concrete problems or data rather than with fundamental principles; opposed to theoretical
- put into practice or put to use
Word Origin
- applied (adj.)
- "put to practical use," (as opposed to abstract or theoretical), 1650s, from past participle of apply. Earlier it was used in a sense of "folded" (c. 1500).
Example
- 1. The same logic can be applied to productivity .
- 2. Now it is being applied to geology .
- 3. How widely could this idea be applied ?
- 4. My major is applied computer science .
- 5. Information governance is governance applied to information .