apple
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Definition
noun (English)
1. A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus.Examples: "None have their eies all of one colour: for the ball or apple in the middeſt is ordinarily of another colour than the vvhite about it."; "The dart did vndergore / His eye-lid, by his eyes deare rootes; and out the apple fell, / The eye pierc'd through: […]"abbreviationalt-ofellipsishistorical
2. A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus.informal
3. A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus.
4. A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus.
5. A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus.Examples: "Hey Dad! What do you say we toss the old apple around, huh? Sound like fun?"obsoleteslang
6. A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus.Examples: "Him [man] by fraud I [Satan] have ſeduc'd / From his Creator, and the more to increaſe / Your vvonder, vvith an Apple; […]"; "I read and re-read her letter, and some softened feelings stole into my heart, and dared to whisper paradisiacal dreams of love and joy; but the apple was already eaten, and the angel's arm bared to drive me from all hope."; "Yes, of all human follies, love, / Methinks, hath served me best. / The Apple had done but little for me / If Eve had not done the rest."
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To make (something) appear like an apple (noun sense 1.1).Examples: "To choose responsibly, our active citizen must know what is being offered, much of this knowledge being filtered through appearance: things must look what they are supposed to be. Apples must look like applies. One might say they have to be appled-up; varieties are selected for marketing which have the most apple-like qualities."; "A large smile appled his full cheeks as the four sprytes eagerly served themselves from the seeds and thinly sliced fruits."transitive
2. (intransitive)Examples: "He glanced at me, his cheeks appled in the impish grin I was learning to recognise as the clever under-side of his broad and gentle smile."; "She smiled, and her cheeks appled up and her teeth were big and flat and her mouth was wide and spacious like an open invitation."intransitive
3. (intransitive)UKdialectalintransitiverare
4. (intransitive)Examples: "As for Scolymus [possibly type of artichoke?], it differeth from the reſt of theſe Thiſtles herein, That the root, if it be ſodden, it is good to be eaten: beſides, it hath a ſtraunge nature, for all the ſort of them during the Summer throughout, never reſt and give over, but either they floure, or they apple, or els be readie to bring foorth fruit: […]"; "To Pome or Apple, is ſaid of the Heads of Artichokes vvhen they grovv round, and full ſhaped as an Apple. It is ſaid alſo of Lettuce, &c."; "You may novv ſovv upon moderate hot-beds, a fevv of the ſmall ſalad ſeeds, ſuch as VVhite Muſtard, Rape, Creſſes, and Cabbage Lettuces, and you may also ſovv upon other hot-beds, not to be drawn until they are pretty large and vvell appled, Radiſhes and Turnips, obſerving to ſovv them very thin, that the plants may have room to ſvvell and grovv; […]"dialectalintransitive
name (English)
1. (with the) Nickname for New York City: a major city in New York, United States; more commonly in the form the Big Apple.countableuncountable
2. (rare, countable) A female given name from English.countablerare
3. (countable) A surname.countable
This word may be considered offensive or sensitive in some contexts.
Definition source: Wiktionary