applied

American  

[uh-plahyd] / əˈplaɪd /

adjective

1. having a practical purpose or use; derived from or involved with actual phenomena (theoretical,pure ).

   applied mathematics; applied science.

2. of or relating to those arts or crafts that have a primarily utilitarian function, or to the designs and decorations used in these arts.

   Her goal was to integrate aesthetics into everyday life through an applied art, particularly with her hand-painted dinner plates.

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applied British  

/ əˈplaɪd /

adjective

1. related to or put to practical use Compare pure

   applied mathematics

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Other Word Forms

• unapplied adjective
• well-applied adjective

Etymology

Origin of applied

First recorded in 1490–1500; apply + -ed ²

Example Sentences

To demonstrate their approach, the researchers applied it to a recently published GBS experiment that would take at least 9,000 years to reproduce using current supercomputers.

From Science Daily

In earlier work published in Nature Neuroscience this year, Watanabe applied the method to genetically engineered mice to investigate the role of a protein called intersectin.

From Science Daily

“However, these protections were not in place. They were not applied properly and these weaknesses appear to have been pre-existing.”

From The Wall Street Journal

While OBR staff thought they had applied safeguards to prevent early publication, there were two errors in the way in which they were set up on the publishing platform WordPress that effectively bypassed these controls.

From BBC

The same methods used here can also be applied to study other archaeological locations.

From Science Daily

Related Words

• enforced
• practiced
• tested