apply
verb (used with object)
to make use of as relevant, suitable, or pertinent.
applier
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a word derived from
apply.
Example Sentences
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Sometimes only a sister can rub arnica on your arse when you are holding an undignified position and want to be able to look the applier in the eye again.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 5, 2018
"Lift your chin," Lea said, brandishing the antiseptic applier she had found in the medicine kit.
From Sense of Obligation by Henry Maxwell Dempsey (AKA Harry Harrison)
In no case is the adage truer, 'Other men laboured, but ye are entered into their labours,' than in the case of the discoverer and applier of natural truth.
From Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 by John Tyndall
The only Dictionary in which I have found it with this meaning is Entick's, in which it is given under the word applier.
From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall
Masser was the theoreticist—I was the applier, the one who translated equations into cold blueprints.
From Now We Are Three by Joe L. Hensley
