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apple
[ ap-uhl ]
noun
- the usually round, red or yellow, edible fruit of a small tree, Malus sylvestris, of the rose family.
- the tree, cultivated in most temperate regions.
- the fruit of any of certain other species of tree of the same genus.
- any of these trees.
- any of various other similar fruits, or fruitlike products or plants, as the custard apple, love apple, May apple, or oak apple.
- Informal. anything resembling an apple in size and shape, as a ball, especially a baseball.
- Bowling. an ineffectively bowled ball.
- Slang. a red capsule containing a barbiturate, especially secobarbital.
apple
/ ˈæpəl /
noun
- a rosaceous tree, Malus sieversii , native to Central Asia but widely cultivated in temperate regions in many varieties, having pink or white fragrant flowers and firm rounded edible fruits See also crab apple
- the fruit of this tree, having red, yellow, or green skin and crisp whitish flesh
- the wood of this tree
- any of several unrelated trees that have fruits similar to the apple, such as the custard apple, sugar apple, and May apple See also love apple oak apple thorn apple
- apple of one's eyea person or thing that is very precious or much loved
- bad apple or rotten applea person with a corrupting influence
Word History and Origins
Origin of apple1
Word History and Origins
Origin of apple1
Idioms and Phrases
- polish the apple
- rotten apple
- upset the applecart
Example Sentences
In that sense, comparing 2000 to 2020 isn’t “apples to apples,” he says.
Many flowers, from apples to zinnias, sport both male and female parts.
This scrub also boasts a string of household ingredients such as pink Himalayan sea salt and apple cider vinegar to remove even the most stubborn dry patches.
While the farm does sell some apples to wholesale distributors, Mofenson says, “Agritourism is really our primary focus.”
The worst thing that can happen to them is to serve with a bad apple.
Leapolitan responded by saying, “hopefully youll [sic] bite into a poison apple.”
Apple customers, on the other hand, are used to paying premium for perceived quality.
The process of co-opting black music and selling it back to the adoring public in whiteface is as American as apple pie.
Companies like Delta, Apple, and Nike flex their political muscle on behalf of gay rights.
Apple, PetSmart, Wells Fargo, Marriott, and Delta also spoke out.
This gives to the second volume something of the smell of an apple store-room.
Twenty acres of apple trees all in a orchard together, and twenty acres of strawberries set out betwixt and between the rows!
All this while Squinty was chewing on the apple which he had picked up from the ground after he had jumped over the rope.
And it did not take Squinty long to learn to jump the rope when there was no apple on the other side.
Then Squinty would toss the apple up in the air, off his nose, and catch it as it came down.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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