Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who applies.
- noun A dental instrument for placing a piece of floss-silk between teeth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun He who, or that which, applies.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a person who, or device that
applies something
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a device for applying a substance
- noun a person who requests or seeks something such as assistance or employment or admission
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Examples
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Cardica's innovations include tissue cutting, stapling and clip applier technologies.
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Not only lipstick did they need, but a professional pasty-cake applier to cover the obvious blemishes.
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I have at least one friend who is a chronic over-applier.
What to Give for Christmas to the Over-Applier? Marina Geigert 2008
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"It doesn't show Indonesia to be a consistent applier of legal principles," said James Bryson, who runs HB Capital Partners, a Jakarta-based investment company.
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I have at least one friend who is a chronic over-applier.
Archive 2008-12-01 Marina Geigert 2008
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I told him the reflection both of the poet and applier was much too general, and made with more ill-nature than good manners.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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A builder of systems and the applier of theoretical models.
Same as it ever was... sbisson 2003
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From first to last, he was the perfecter and applier rather than the creator.
THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966
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From first to last, he was the perfecter and applier rather than the creator.
THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966
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It is needless to say that such applications of the higher criticism to the ancient sacred documents proved to be no safer for the applier than if he had lived in the United States of America.
The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji William Elliot Griffis 1885
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