See also: APP, App, and app.

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Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /æp/
  • (US) IPA(key): [ʔæʔp̚]
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: app
  • Rhymes: -æp

Etymology 1 edit

Shortening of application.

Noun edit

app (plural apps)

  1. (computing, mobile telephony) An application (program), especially a small one designed for a mobile device.
    • 1999 February, Maximum PC, volume 4, number 2:
      A visual tool can be thought of as a graphics app that generates most of your program's GUI code for you
    • 1999, Jerry Bradenbaugh, JavaScript application cookbook, page xi:
      So is a spreadsheet app, but I'm not going to put those on a web site any time soon.
    • 1999 November, AUUGN, volume 20, number 4, page 9:
      The Web browser was the killer app that kickstarted the Internet and, in turn, enabled it to be embedded in everything
    • 2005 May, Popular Science, volume 266, number 5, page 78:
      Want realtime flight and gate updates? A calorie counter? A remote for your DVD player? Chances are there's an app for it. Smartphones separate themselves in another key area: connectivity
  2. (military) application (use, purpose; not a computer program)
    • 1995, The X-Files (TV series), Nisei (episode)
      SCULLY: What are these chips used for?
      PENDRELL: Video games, brake systems, they're finding new apps every day. I just read about one being designed to help the severely disabled operate computers using brainwaves.
  3. (education, informal) application (to a college etc.)
    • 2011, Nicole Leigh Shepherd, Stealing Bases:
      “Ky—please don't take this the wrong way—I actually have to wear a dress from our line. You know, to show off my marketing materials on my college app. So, I'm working on it with Hannah.”
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Etymology 2 edit

Shortening of appetizer.

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app (plural apps)

  1. (informal) appetizer
    • 2007, Evelyn Spence, Explorer's Guide Colorado's Classic Mountain Towns:
      The food is some of Breck's best: apps like sweet potato gnocchi with smoked chicken and sage cream []
    • 2009, Robin Asbell, New Vegetarian:
      If you lay out a platter of these exciting, beautiful vegetarian appetizers, the other apps will pale in comparison.
    • 2010, Bill Allen, Grillin', Chillin', and Swillin', page 1:
      This is not to say that we only serve apps at dinner parties. Quite the contrary; but for smaller gatherings, good appetizers can distinguish you as a host who puts more thought and effort into his or her party menu. Better yet, most apps are relatively easy to make []

Etymology 3 edit

Shortening of appearance.

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app (plural apps)

  1. (sports) An appearance in a game.
    That player has had ten apps this season.

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Etymology edit

Borrowed from English app.

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app f (plural apps)

  1. app
    Synonyms: aplicació mòbil, apli

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Etymology edit

From English app, shortened from application.

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app c (singular definite appen, plural indefinite apper or apps)

  1. (computing) app

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Etymology edit

From English app. The senses pertaining to text messaging are influenced by the app name WhatsApp.

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app f or m (plural apps, diminutive appje n)

  1. an app
    Wat voor apps heb jij erop staan?
    What apps have you got on your phone?
  2. (Netherlands, typically in the diminutive) a text message sent using an app
    Stuur alsjeblieft even een appje zodra je veilig thuis bent.
    Please send a text as soon as you're home safe.
  3. (Netherlands) a chat on a text messaging app, particularly a group chat
    Ze ruzieden in de app van het studentenhuis.
    They had a fight in the student accommodation chat.

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Etymology edit

From English app, from application, from Latin applicātiō.

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app f (genitive singular appar, plural appir)

  1. (computing) app (for a mobile device)

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Declension of app
f2 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative app appin appir appirnar
accusative app appina appir appirnar
dative app appini appum appunum
genitive appar apparinnar appa appanna

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app m (plural apps)

  1. Only used in bon app (bon appétit)

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Etymology edit

Clipping of applikáció (application), from English application.

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app (plural appok)

  1. (computing) app, application
    Synonyms: alkalmazás, applikáció

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Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative app appok
accusative appot appokat
dative appnak appoknak
instrumental appal appokkal
causal-final appért appokért
translative appá appokká
terminative appig appokig
essive-formal appként appokként
essive-modal
inessive appban appokban
superessive appon appokon
adessive appnál appoknál
illative appba appokba
sublative appra appokra
allative apphoz appokhoz
elative appból appokból
delative appról appokról
ablative apptól appoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
appé appoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
appéi appokéi
Possessive forms of app
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. appom appjaim
2nd person sing. appod appjaid
3rd person sing. appja appjai
1st person plural appunk appjaink
2nd person plural appotok appjaitok
3rd person plural appjuk appjaik

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Etymology edit

From English app, from application, from Latin applicātiō.

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app n (genitive singular apps, nominative plural öpp)

  1. (computing) app (for a mobile device)
    Synonym: smáforrit

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Etymology edit

Borrowed from English app.

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app f (invariable)

  1. app

Ludian edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Finnic *appi.

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app

  1. father-in-law

Portuguese edit

Etymology edit

Unadapted borrowing from English app.

Pronunciation edit

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈɛ.pi/, (initialism) /ˌaˌpeˈpe/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈɛ.pe/, (initialism) /ˌaˌpeˈpe/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈɛ.pɨ/, /ˈa.pɨ/, (initialism) /ˌaˌpeˈpe/

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app (Portugal) f or (Brazil) m (plural apps)

  1. (computing) app (small computer application)
    Synonyms: aplicação, (Brazil) aplicativo
    • 2014, Peter Thiel, translated by Miguel Bôto, Zero to One, →ISBN, unnumbered page; republished as De Zero a Um, Leya, 2015:
      A realização de pequenas melhorias relativamente a algo que já existe poderá levá-lo a um máximo local, mas não o irá ajudar a alcançar o máximo global. Poderá desenvolver a melhor versão de uma app para encomendar papel higiénico através do iPhone, []
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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Etymology edit

Unadapted borrowing from English app (with gender by association with aplicación f).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈap/ [ˈap]
  • Rhymes: -ap
  • Syllabification: app

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app f (plural apps)

  1. (computing) app
    Synonym: aplicación
    • 2019 December 16, “Una app de citas descartará posibles parejas por su ADN”, in El País[1]:
      Con la app de George Church, sus padres no se habrían conocido, porque habrían sido declarados incompatibles.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Usage notes edit

  • According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
  • Feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like this one regularly take the singular articles el and un, usually reserved for masculine nouns.
    el app, un app
  • They maintain the usual feminine singular articles la and una if an adjective intervenes between the article and the noun.
  • In practice, this rule is often not followed and the form la app is widely used.

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app c

  1. (computing) an app (especially on mobile phones and the like, like in English)
    Synonym: applikation

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Declension of app 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative app appen appar apparna
Genitive apps appens appars apparnas

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app

  1. Expresses reproach; "Hey, don't do that!"
    App app app – den där får du inte äta. Den är till festen imorgon.
    App app app – you can't eat that one. It's for the party tomorrow.

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Usually repeated.

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