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ap·ply
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purchase
to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy. -
apply
If you apply for something such as a job or membership of an organization, you write a letter or fill in a form in order to ask formally for it. -
linear operator
a mathematical operator with the property that applying it to a linear combination of two objects yields the same linear combination as the result of applying it to the objects separately. -
single standard
a single set of principles or rules applying to everyone, as a single moral code applying to both men and women, especially in sexual behavior. Compare double standard. -
waxing
Also called beeswax. a solid, yellowish, nonglycerine substance allied to fats and oils, secreted by bees, plastic when warm and melting at about 145°F, variously employed in making candles, models, casts, ointments, etc., and used by bees in constructing their honeycomb. -
-wide
-wide combines with nouns to form adjectives which indicate that something exists or happens throughout the place or area that the noun refers to.