Noun: app
Sample Sentences
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A visual tool can be thought of as a graphics app that generates most of your program's GUI code for you [1999 February, Maximum PC, volume 4, number 2:]
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So is a spreadsheet app, but I'm not going to put those on a web site any time soon. [1999, Jerry Bradenbaugh, JavaScript application cookbook, page xi:]
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The Web browser was the killer app that kickstarted the Internet and, in turn, enabled it to be embedded in everything [1999 November, AUUGN, volume 20, number 4, page 9:]
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Want realtime flight and gate updates? A calorie counter? A remote for your DVD player? Chances are there's an app for it. Smartphones separate themselves in another key area: connectivity [2005 May, Popular Science, volume 266, number 5, page 78:]
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Parking is by app, which (when it works) is good. But £7.70 to park is extortionate, so GTR needs to look at reducing that. [2025 October 15, 'Mystery Shopper', “About Anglia... and high scores”, in RAIL, number 1046, page 53:]
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SCULLY: What are these chips used for?
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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. [1995, The X-Files (TV series), Nisei (episode)]
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“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.” [2011, Nicole Leigh Shepherd, Stealing Bases:]
Nouns inflected like app
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
3. Proto-Italic *ad
4. Proto-Italic *ad-
5. Latin ad-
6. Proto-Indo-European *pel-
7. Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ-der.
8. Latin plicō
9. Latin applicō
10. Proto-Indo-European *-tis
11. Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
12. Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
13. Proto-Italic *-tiō
14. Latin -tiō
15. Latin applicātiōbor.
16. Old French aplicacionbor.
17. Middle English applicacioun
18. English applicationclip.
19. English app
20. Clipping of application.
Verbs referencing "app"
Catalan Nouns
app, Danish Nouns
app, Dutch Nouns
app, Faroese Nouns
app, Icelandic Nouns
app, Italian Nouns
app, Irish Nouns
aip, Finnish Nouns
äppi.