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noun
1Computing
An application, especially as downloaded by a user to a mobile device.‘I've just installed the app on my phone’- ‘I've been trying to come up with ways to construct the app myself and D talked about.’
- ‘So today I'm catching up with the lost hours from yesterday and reinstalling my favourite apps on my reborn PC.’
- ‘Well I quit all apps, and restarted them, had no real effect, but a system restart seemed to pick up the user profile changes.’
- ‘Some internet apps are working fine, others are dead in the water.’
- ‘That is, to quit the third and fourth frontmost apps, hold down Alt and hit Tab, Tab, Q, Tab, Q.’
- ‘I was also running about ten other apps at the same time, and it went off without a hitch.’
- ‘Basically third-party apps fall into one of two categories, useful or cool, and some things are both.’
- ‘I'm downloading various apps and wallpaper for it on my work machine and transferring them via a flash drive.’
- ‘Consider creating a new user account on your computer with none of your familiar apps or configurations.’
- ‘I feel it's a very useful conceptual position that makes the future of web apps much more evident.’
- ‘Geeks store what they do in text and spurn big apps, using plain text editors.’
- ‘This reset will keep all apps inactive until you manually start them after the reset is complete.’
- ‘I can almost consider it as research into the current state of the art of web apps.’
- ‘They want Web sites to respond as fast as the apps do on their new gigahertz computers.’
- ‘If you've never heard of it, it's a simple app that puts the current time into natural language.’
- ‘Double-click on the map to mark waypoints, and the app tells you the total distance defined by the waypoints.’
- ‘Thus I have added another field to the Settings sheet of my blogger app and a little code to support it.’
- ‘It was a very, very bad app, but it was the first app I ever built.’
- ‘Also, the banner slot at the bottom was refusing to budge, proudly displaying an ad telling me to use the app that was displaying it.’
- ‘I do hope I won't have to start running a spam-eating app on my weblog's comments!’
2 informal An application or application form.
- ‘Ezra's helping her with her college apps’
- ‘don't waste your time filling out online job apps’
- ‘He got so tired that now he just staples a copy of his resume to the blank job app.’
- ‘Do employers typically read through every single job app completely and thoroughly?’
- ‘Most of the time, I convinced myself that my app was better.’
- ‘An applicant who can make an admissions officer laugh never gets lost in the shuffle, and no one will be able to bear tossing your app into the “reject” pile.’
- ‘If you're a law and econ guy and a tax professor reads your app, she might like it more than the First Amendment guy.’
- ‘So, how are your grad school apps coming along?’
- ‘I'm doing it all, and my job apps are due in a couple of weeks.’
- ‘“If you could invite one person to dinner,” the college app asks, ”who would it be?”’
- ‘Looks good on a college app though, right?’
- ‘Essentially, he fills out my job app and gives her a resume.’
noun
informal USAn appetizer.
- ‘have you tried the fennel salad app?’
- ‘I will be making these eggs as one of my apps for my Mother's Day dinner’
- ‘It's not such a happening spot anymore, but you can get some cool apps there.’
- ‘After all, how could the judges compare apps and entrees to desserts?’
- ‘Their nachos stand out on the apps menu.’
- ‘The grilled habanero chicken quesadilla leads the apps list.’
- ‘The Vietnamese lettuce wrap is a leading chicken app.’
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