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apple
/ˈæpəl/
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What does apple mean?
noun
- The fruit of the tree Malus domestica, chiefly with a green, red, or yellow skin, cultivated in temperate climates for cidermaking, cooking, and eating.
- Often with a qualifying word: any fruit or vegetable, or any other thing (such as a cone or gall) produced by a plant, especially if from a tree and similar to the fruit of Malus domestica (noun sense 1.1).
- Something which resembles the fruit of Malus domestica (noun sense 1.1) in shape (such as a ball, breast, or globe) or colour.
More meanings (25)
noun
- Ellipsis of Adam's apple (“the lump in the throat, usually more noticeable in men than in women; the laryngeal prominence”).
- Ellipsis of apple-green (“a bright green colour with a light tint of yellow, like that of a Granny Smith apple”).
- (informal) The round, fleshy part of a cheek between the eye and the corner of the mouth when a person is smiling.
- The surface of revolution of a circular arc of an angle greater than 180° rotated about the straight line passing through the arc's two endpoints.
- In full apple bowl: a round bowl of a tobacco pipe; also, a tobacco pipe with such a bowl.
- According to postbiblical Christian tradition, the fruit of the tree of knowledge which was eaten by Adam and Eve despite God commanding them not to do so; the forbidden fruit.
- (humorous) An imaginary diminutive unit of height.
- A tree of the genus Malus; especially Malus domestica which is cultivated for its edible fruit; the apple tree.
- Synonym of applewood (“the wood of the apple tree”).
- A fruit of any kind.
- (slang) A person.
- (slang) Synonym of CBer (“a CB radio enthusiast”).
- (slang) An assist.
- A computer produced by the company Apple Inc.
- (historical) Ellipsis of apple of the eye (“the pupil, or pupil and iris, of the eye, originally believed to be spherical; also, the eyeball”).
- (obsolete, slang) In full old apple: a baseball.
- (obsolete) Synonym of pome (“a type of fruit in which the often edible flesh arises from the swollen base of the flower and not from the carpels”).
- (derogatory, slang) A Native American or redskinned person who acts or thinks like a white (Caucasian) person.
verb
- To make (something) appear like an apple (noun sense 1.1).
- To become like an apple.
- Of a flower bud or vegetable (especially a root vegetable): to grow into the shape of an apple.
- (rare) To collect fir-cones.
proper noun
- Nickname for New York City: a major city in New York, United States; more commonly in the form the Big Apple.
- A surname.
- (rare) A female given name from English.
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IPA pronunciation
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It abounded in fruits of almost every description, from the hardy apple of the north to the delicate orange of the south.
Beside the apple-tree stood a sort of fruit-house, which was not securely fastened, and where one might contrive to get an apple.
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The scientific truth underlying the story is the well-known expedient of placing a shrivelled apple under the receiver of an air pump.
The mixed odors of apple, straw and boots constituted a unique and long unsmelled perfume which had sunk deep into my memory.
As a boy he was active, and could jump a bar placed at the height of the "Adam's apple" in his neck.