Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter A - Page 80
Apply (v. i.) 申請，請求 [（+for/ to）] [+to-v]；起作用；適用 [W] [（+to）]；專心致志 To suit; to agree; to have some connection, agreement, or analogy; as, this argument applies well to the case.
Apply (v. i.) To make request; to have recourse with a view to gain something; to make application. (to); to solicit; as, to apply to a friend for information.
Apply (v. i.) To ply; to move. [R.]
I heard the sound of an oar applying swiftly through the water. -- T. Moore.
Apply (v. i.) To apply or address one's self; to give application; to attend closely (to).
Apply (v.) Put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose; "use your head!"; "we only use Spanish at home"; "I can't use this tool"; "Apply a magnetic field here"; "This thinking was applied to many projects"; "How do you utilize this tool?"; "I apply this rule to get good results"; "use the plastic bags to store the food"; "He doesn't know how to use a computer" [syn: {use}, {utilize}, {utilise}, {apply}, {employ}].
Apply (v.) Be pertinent or relevant or applicable; "The same laws apply to you!"; "This theory holds for all irrational numbers"; "The same rules go for everyone" [syn: {apply}, {hold}, {go for}].
Apply (v.) Ask (for something); "He applied for a leave of absence"; "She applied for college"; "apply for a job".
Apply (v.) Apply to a surface; "She applied paint to the back of the house"; "Put on make-up!" [syn: {put on}, {apply}].
Apply (v.) Be applicable to; as to an analysis; "This theory lends itself well to our new data" [syn: {lend oneself}, {apply}] [ant: {defy}, {refuse}, {resist}].
Apply (v.) Give or convey physically; "She gave him First Aid"; "I gave him a punch in the nose" [syn: {give}, {apply}].
Apply (v.) Avail oneself to; "apply a principle"; "practice a religion"; "use care when going down the stairs"; "use your common sense"; "practice non-violent resistance" [syn: {practice}, {apply}, {use}].
Apply (v.) Ensure observance of laws and rules; "Apply the rules to everyone"; [syn: {enforce}, {implement}, {apply}] [ant: {exempt}, {free}, {relieve}].
Apply (v.) Refer (a word or name) to a person or thing; "He applied this racial slur to me!"
Apply (v.) Apply oneself to; "Please apply yourself to your homework".
Appoggiatura (n.) 裝飾音之一種；【音】倚音 A passing tone preceding an essential tone, and borrowing the time it occupies from that; a short auxiliary or grace note one degree above or below the principal note unless it be of the same harmony; -- generally indicated by a note of smaller size, as in the illustration above. It forms no essential part of the harmony.
Appoggiatura (n.) An embellishing note usually written in smaller size [syn: {grace note}, {appoggiatura}, {acciaccatura}].
Appointed (imp. & p. p.) of Appoint
Appointing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Appoint
Appoint (v. t.) 任命，指派 [O9] [O2] [（+as/ to）]；約定，指定；安排 To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out.
When he appointed the foundations of the earth. -- Prov. viii. 29.
Appoint (v. t.) To fix by a decree, order, command, resolve, decision, or mutual agreement; to constitute; to ordain; to prescribe; to fix the time and place of.
Thy servants are ready to do whatsoever my lord the king shall appoint. -- 2 Sam. xv. 15.
He hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness. -- Acts xvii. 31.
Say that the emperor request a parley . . . and appoint the meeting. -- Shak.
Appoint (v. t.) To assign, designate, or set apart by authority.
Aaron and his shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service. -- Num. iv. 19.
These were cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them. -- Josh. xx. 9.
Appoint (v. t.) To furnish in all points; to provide with everything necessary by way of equipment; to equip; to fit out.
The English, being well appointed, did so entertain them that their ships departed terribly torn. -- Hayward.
Appoint (v. t.) To point at by way, or for the purpose, of censure or commendation; to arraign. [Obs.]
Appoint not heavenly disposition. -- Milton.
Appoint (v. t.) (Law) To direct, designate, or limit; to make or direct a new disposition of, by virtue of a power contained in a conveyance; -- said of an estate already conveyed. -- Burrill. Kent.
{To appoint one's self}, To resolve. [Obs.] -- Crowley.
Appoint (v. i.) 委派職務 To ordain; to determine; to arrange.
For the Lord had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel. -- 2 Sam. xvii. 14.
Appoint (v.) Create and charge with a task or function; "nominate a committee" [syn: {appoint}, {name}, {nominate}, {constitute}].
Appoint (v.) Assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to; "He was appointed deputy manager"; "She was charged with supervising the creation of a concordance" [syn: {appoint}, {charge}].
Appoint (v.) Furnish; "a beautifully appointed house".
Appointable (a.) 可任命的 Capable of being appointed or constituted.
Appointee (n.) 被任命者；【律】被指定的財產受益人 A person appointed.
The commission authorizes them to make appointments, and pay the appointees. -- Circular of Mass. Representatives (1768).
Appointee (n.) (Law) A person in whose favor a power of appointment is executed. --Kent. Wharton.
Appointee (n.) An official who is appointed
Appointee (n.) A person who is appointed to a job or position [syn: {appointee}, {appointment}].
Appointer (n.) 任命者 One who appoints, or executes a power of appointment.
Appointive (a.) （官職等）委任的；任命的；有任命權的 Subject to appointment; as, an appointive office. [R.]
Appointive (a.) Relating to the act of appointing; "appointive powers".
Appointive (a.) Subject to appointment [syn: {appointive}, {appointed}] [ant: {elected}, {elective}].
Appointment (n.) （尤指正式的）約會 [C] [（+with）] [+to-v]；（會面的）約定 [U] The act of appointing; designation of a person to hold an office or discharge a trust; as, he erred by the appointment of unsuitable men.
Appointment (n.) The state of being appointed to som/ service or office; an office to which one is appointed; station; position; an, the appointment of treasurer.
Appointment (n.) Stipulation; agreement; the act of fixing by mutual agreement. Hence:: Arrangement for a meeting; engagement; as, they made an appointment to meet at six.
Appointment (n.) Decree; direction; established order or constitution; as, to submit to the divine appointments.
According to the appointment of the priests. -- Ezra vi. 9.
Appointment (n.) (Law) The exercise of the power of designating (under a "power of appointment") a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made.
Appointment (n.) Equipment, furniture, as for a ship or an army; whatever is appointed for use and management; outfit; (pl.) the accouterments of military officers or soldiers, as belts, sashes, swords.
The cavaliers emulated their chief in the richness of their appointments. -- Prescott.
I'll prove it in my shackles, with these hands Void of appointment, that thou liest. -- Beau. & Fl.
Appointment (n.) An allowance to a person, esp. to a public officer; a perquisite; -- properly only in the plural. [Obs.]
An expense proportioned to his appointments and fortune is necessary. -- Chesterfield.
Appointment (n.) A honorary part or exercise, as an oration, etc., at a public exhibition of a college; as, to have an appointment. [U. S.]
Syn: Designation; command; order; direction; establishment; equipment.
Appointment (n.) The act of putting a person into a non-elective position; "the appointment had to be approved by the whole committee" [syn: {appointment}, {assignment}, {designation}, {naming}].
Appointment (n.) A meeting arranged in advance; "she asked how to avoid kissing at the end of a date" [syn: {date}, {appointment}, {engagement}].
Appointment (n.) (Usually pl.) Furnishings and equipment (especially for a ship or hotel) [syn: {appointment}, {fitting}].
Appointment (n.) A person who is appointed to a job or position [syn: {appointee}, {appointment}].
Appointment (n.) The job to which you are (or hope to be) appointed; "he applied for an appointment in the treasury".
Appointment (n.) (law) The act of disposing of property by virtue of the power of appointment; "she allocated part of the trust to her church by appointment".
Appointment (n.), Chancery practice. The act of a person authorized by a will or other instrument to direct how trust property shall be disposed of, directing such disposition agreeably to the general directions of the trust.
Appointment (n.) The appointment must be made in such a manner as to come within the spirit of the power. And although at law the rule only requires that some allotment, however small, shall be given to each person, when the power is to appoint to and among several persons; the rule in equity differs, and requires a real and substantial portion to each, and a mere nominal allotment to one is deemed illusory and fraudulent. When the distribution is left to discretion, without any prescribed rule, Is to such of the children as the trustee shall think proper, he may appoint to one only; 5 Ves. 857; but if the words be, 'amongst' the children as he should think proper, each must have a share, and the doctrine of illusory appointment applies. 4 Ves. 771 Prec. Ch. 256; 2 Vern. 513. Vide, generally, 1 Supp. to Ves. Jr. 40, 95, 201, 235, 237; 2 Id. 1 27; 1 Vern. 67, n.; 1 Ves. Jr. 31 0, n.; 4 Kent, Com. 337; Sugd. on Pow. Index, h.t.; 2 Hill. Ab. Index, h.t.; 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1921, et seq.
Appointment (n.), Government, wills. The act by which a person is selected and invested with an office; as the appointment of a judge, of which the making out of his commission is conclusive evidence. 1 Cranch, 137, 155; 10 Pet. 343. The appointment of an executor, which is done by nominating him as such in a will or testament.
Appointment (n.) By appointment is also understood a public employment, nearly synonymous with office. The distinction is this, that the term appointment is of a more extensive signification than office; for example, the act of authorizing a man to print the laws of the United States by authority, and the right conveyed by such an act, is an appointment, but the right thus conveyed is not an office. 17 S. & R. 219, 233. See 3 S. & R. 157; Coop. Just. 599, 604.
Appointor (n.) (Law) 【律】任命者 The person who selects the appointee. See {Appointee, 2.}
Appointor (n.) One authorized by the donor under the statute of uses, to execute a power. 2 Bouv. Ins. n. 1923.
Apporter (n.) 帶來者；提供者；輸入業者；進口商 A bringer in; an importer. [Obs.] -- Sir M. Hale.
Apportioned (imp. & p. p.) of Apportion
Apportioning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Apportion
Apportion (v. t.) 分攤；分配 To divide and assign in just proportion; to divide and distribute proportionally; to portion out; to allot; as, to apportion undivided rights; to apportion time among various employments.
Apportion (v.) Distribute according to a plan or set apart for a special purpose; "I am allocating a loaf of bread to everyone on a daily basis"; "I'm allocating the rations for the camping trip" [syn: {allocate}, {apportion}].
Apportion (v.) Give out as one's portion or share [syn: {share}, {divvy up}, {portion out}, {apportion}, {deal}].
Apportionateness (n.) 分配性 The quality of being apportioned or in proportion. [Obs. & R.]
Apportioner (n.) One who apportions.
Apportionment (n.) 分配；（美國）各州的直接稅的分派 The act of apportioning; a dividing into just proportions or shares; a division or shares; a division and assignment, to each proprietor, of his just portion of an undivided right or property.-- A. Hamilton.
Apportionment (n.) The act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan; "the apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives is based on the relative population of each state" [syn: {allotment}, {apportionment}, {apportioning}, {allocation}, {parceling}, {parcelling}, {assignation}].
Apportionment (n.), Contracts. Lord Coke defines it to be a division or partition of a rent, common, or the like, or the making it into parts. Co. Litt. 147. This definition seems incomplete. Apportionment frequently denotes, not, division, but distribution ; and in its ordinary technical sense, the distribution of one subject in proportion to another previously distributed. 1 Swanst. C. 87, n.
Apportionment (n.) Apportionment will here be considered only in relation to contracts, by talking a view, 1, of such as are purely personal and, 2, of such as relate to the realty.
Apportionment (n.) When a Purely personal contract is entire and not divisible in its nature, it is manifest it cannot be apportioned; as when the subject of the contract is but one thing, and there is but one creditor and one debtor, neither can apportion the obligation without the consent of the other. In such case the creditor cannot force his debtor to pay him a part of his debt only, and leave the other part unpaid, nor can the debtor compel his creditor to receive a part only of what is due to him on account of his claim. Nor can the assignee of a part sustain an action for such part. 5 N. S. 192.
Apportionment (n.) When there is a special contract between the parties, in general no compensation can be received unless the whole contract has been actually fulfilled. 4 Greenl. 454; 2 Pick. R. 267; 10 Pick. R. 209; 4 Pick. R. 103; 4 M'Cord, R. 26, 246; 6 Verm. R. 35. The subject of the contract being a complex event, constituted by the performance of various acts, the imperfect completion of the event, by the performance of only some of those acts, cannot, by virtue of that contract, of which it is not the subject, afford a title to the whole, or any part of the stipulated benefit. See 1 Swanst. C. 338, n. and the cases there cited; Story, Bailm. Sec. 441; Chit. Contr. 168; 3 Watts, 331; 2 Mass. 147, 436; 3 Hen. & Munf. 407; 2 John. Cas. 17; 13 John. R. 365; 11 Wend. 257; 7 Cowen, 184; 8 Cowen, 84; 2 Pick. 332. See generally on the subject of the apportionment, of personal obligations, 16 Vin. Ab. 138; 22 Vin. Ab. 13; Stark. Ev. part 4, p. 1622; Com. Dig. Chancery, 2 E and 4 N 5; 3 Chit. Com. Law 129; Newl. Contr. 159; Long on Sales, 108. And for the doctrine of the civil law, see Dumoulin, de dividuo et individuo, part 2, n. 6, 7; Toull. Dr. Civ. Fr. liv. 3, tit 3, c. 4, n. 750, et seq.
Apportionment (n.) With regard to rents, the law is different. Rents may in general be apportioned, and this may take place in several ways; first, by the act of the landlord or reversioner alone, and secondly, by virtue of the statute of 11 Geo. II., c. 19, s. 15, or by statutes in the several states in which its principles have been embodied.
Apportionment (n.) When there is a subsisting obligation on the part of the tenant to pay a certain rent, the reversioner may sell his estate in different parts, to as many persons as he may deem proper, and the lessee or tenant will be bound to pay to each a proportion of the rent. 3 Watts, 404; 3 Kent Com. 470, 3d. ed.; Co. Litt. 158 a; Gilb. on Rents, 173; 7 Car. 23; 13 Co. 57 Cro. Eliz. 637, 651; Archb. L. &. T. 172 5 B. & A. 876; 6 Halst. 262. It is usual for the owners of the reversion to agree among themselves as to the amount which each is to receive; but when there is no agreement, the rent will be apportioned by the jury. 3 Kent, Com. 470; 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 697.
Apportionment (n.) Rent may be apportioned as to time by virtue of the stat. 11 Geo. H., C. 19, s. 15, by which it is provided that the rent due by a tenant for life, who dies during the currency of a quarter, of a year, or other division of time at which the rent was made payable, shall be apportioned to the day of his death. In Delaware, Missouri, New Jersey, and New York, it is provided by statutes, that if the tenant for life, lessor, die on the rent day, his executors may recover the whole rent; if before, a proportional part. In Delaware, Kentucky, Missouri, and New York, when one is entitled to rents, depending on the life of another, he may recover them notwithstanding the death of the latter. In Delaware, Kentucky, Missouri, and Virginia, it is specially provided, that the husband, after the death of his wife, may recover the rents of her lands. 1 Hill. Ab. c. 16, Sec. 50. In Kentucky, the rent is to be apportioned when the lease is determined upon any contingency.
Apportionment (n.) When the tenant is deprived of the land, as by eviction, by title paramount, or by quitting the premises with the landlord's consent, in the absence of any agreement to the contrary, his obligation to pay rent ceases, as regards the current quarter or half year, or other day of payment, as the case may be. But rent which is due may be recovered. Gilb. on Rents, 145; 3 Kent, Comm. 376; 4 Wend. 423; 8 Cowen, 727 1 Har. & Gill, 308; 11 Mass. 493. See 4 Cruise's Dig. 206; 3 Call's R. 268; 4 M'Cord 447; 1 Bailey's R. 469; 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1675, et seq.
Compare: Premise
Premise (n.) (Logic) 前提；[複數] 房屋；[複數] [合同、契約用語] 上述各點；（邏輯學中的）大 [小] 前提 A previous statement or proposition from which another is inferred or follows as a conclusion.
‘If the premise is true, then the conclusion must be true.’
Premise (n.) An assertion or proposition which forms the basis for a work or theory.
‘The fundamental premise of the report.’
Premise (v.) [With object] (v. t.) 提出……為前提；預述（條件等）；引導（論述等）(v. i.) 提出前提
(Premise something on/ upon)
Base an argument, theory, or undertaking on.
‘The reforms were premised on our findings.’
(Premise something on/ upon)
State or presuppose (something) as a premise.
[With clause] ‘One school of thought premised that the cosmos is indestructible.’
(Premise something on/ upon) [Archaic] State by way of introduction.
‘I will premise generally that I hate lecturing.’
Appose (v. t.) 附，添；使並列 To place opposite or before; to put or apply (one thing to another).
The nymph herself did then appose,
For food and beverage, to him all best meat. -- Chapman.
Appose (v. t.) To place in juxtaposition or proximity.
Appose (v. t.) To put questions to; to examine; to try. [Obs.] See {Pose}.
To appose him without any accuser, and that secretly. -- Tyndale.
Appose (v.) Place side by side or in close proximity.
Apposed (a.) 並列的 Placed in apposition; mutually fitting, as the mandibles of a bird's beak.
Apposer (n.) 賬目審核官；(英格蘭古法) 財政署官員，負責審核郡長的賬目，又稱 Foreign apposer. [Obs.] An examiner; one whose business is to put questions. Formerly, in the English Court of Exchequer, an officer who audited the sheriffs' accounts.
Apposer (n.), Eng. law. An officer of the Court of Exchequer, called the foreign apposer.
Apposite (a.) 適當的，貼切的 Very applicable; well adapted; suitable or fit; relevant; pat; -- followed by to; as, this argument is very apposite to the case. -- {Ap"po*site*ly}, adv. -- {Ap"po*site*ness}, n.
Apposite (a.) Being of striking appropriateness and pertinence; "the successful copywriter is a master of apposite and evocative verbal images"; "an apt reply" [syn: {apposite}, {apt}, {pertinent}].
Apposition (n.) 並置；【語】同位語 The act of adding; application; accretion.
It grows . . . by the apposition of new matter. -- Arbuthnot.
Apposition (n.) The putting of things in juxtaposition, or side by side; also, the condition of being so placed.
Apposition (n.) (Gram.) The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first.
{Growth by apposition} (Physiol.), a mode of growth characteristic of non vascular tissues, in which nutritive matter from the blood is transformed on the surface of an organ into solid unorganized substance.
Apposition (n.) A grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows; "`Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer' is an example of apposition".
Apposition (n.) (Biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material.
Apposition (n.) The act of positioning close together (or side by side); "it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors" [syn: {juxtaposition}, {apposition}, {collocation}].
Appositional (a.) 【文】同位的；【植】附生的 Pertaining to apposition; put in apposition syntactically. -- Ellicott.
Appositional (a.) Relating to or being in apposition; "an appositive noun" [syn: {appositional}, {appositive}].
Appositive (a.) 【語】同位（語）的 Of or relating to apposition; in apposition. -- {Ap*pos"i*tive*ly}, adv.
Appositive to the words going immediately before. -- Knatchbull.
Appositive (a.) Relating to or being in apposition; "an appositive noun" [syn: {appositional}, {appositive}].
Appositive (n.) 同位語，同位成分 A noun in apposition.
Appraisable (a.) 可估價的；可評價的 Capable of being appraised.
Appraisal (n.) [See {Appraise}. Cf. {Apprizal}.] [U] [C] 評價；估量；估價 A valuation by an authorized person; an appraisement.
Appraisal (n.) The classification of someone or something with respect to its worth [syn: {appraisal}, {assessment}].
Appraisal (n.) A document appraising the value of something (as for insurance or taxation) [syn: {appraisal}, {estimate}, {estimation}].
Appraisal (n.) An expert estimation of the quality, quantity, and other characteristics of someone or something.
Apraised (imp. & p. p.) of Appraise
Appraising (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Appraise
Appraise (v. t.) 估計，估量；估價；評價 To set a value; to estimate the worth of, particularly by persons appointed for the purpose; as, to appraise goods and chattels.
Appraise (v. t.) To estimate; to conjecture.
Enoch . . . appraised his weight. -- Tennyson.
Appraise (v. t.) To praise; to commend. [Obs.] -- R. Browning.
Appraised the Lycian custom. -- Tennyson.
Note: In the United States, this word is often pronounced, and sometimes written, apprize.
Appraise (v.) Evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of; "I will have the family jewels appraised by a professional"; "access all the factors when taking a risk" [syn: {measure}, {evaluate}, {valuate}, {assess}, {appraise}, {value}].
Appraise (v.) Consider in a comprehensive way; "He appraised the situation carefully before acting" [syn: {survey}, {appraise}].
Appraisement (n.) 評價；估價；鑒定 The act of setting the value; valuation by an appraiser; estimation of worth.
Appraiser (n.) 評價人，鑒定人，估價官 One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
Appraiser (n.) One who estimates officially the worth or value or quality of things [syn: {appraiser}, {valuator}]
Appraiser (n.) One who determines authenticity (as of works of art) or who guarantees validity [syn: {appraiser}, {authenticator}]
Appraiser (n.), Practice. A person appointed by competent authority to appraise or value goods; as in case of the death of a person, an appraisement and inventory must be made of the goods of which he died possessed, or was entitled to. Appraisers are sometimes appointed to assess the damage done to property, by some public work, or to estimate its value when taken for public use.
Apprecation (n.) Earnest prayer; devout wish. [Obs.]
A solemn apprecation of good success. -- Bishop Hall.
Apprecatory (a.) Praying or wishing good. [Obs.] "Apprecatory benedictions." -- Bishop Hall.
Appreciable (a.) 可估計的；（大得）可以看到（或察覺到）的，相當可觀的 Capable of being appreciated or estimated; large enough to be estimated; perceptible; as, an appreciable quantity. -- {Ap*pre"ci*a*bly}, adv.
Appreciable (a.) Enough to be estimated or measured; "appreciable amounts of noxious wastes are dumped into the harbor".
Appreciant (a.) [(+of)] 有欣賞力的；能確認價值的；表示讚賞的，感謝的 Appreciative. [R.]
Appreciated (imp. & p. p.) of Appreciate
Appreciating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Appreciate
Appreciate (v. t.) 欣賞，賞識；感謝，感激；體會，領會，察知 [W] [+（that）] To set a price or value on; to estimate justly; to value.
To appreciate the motives of their enemies. -- Gibbon.
Appreciate (v. t.) To raise the value of; to increase the market price of; -- opposed to {depreciate}. [U. S.]
Lest a sudden peace should appreciate the money. -- Ramsay.
Appreciate (v. t.) To be sensible of; to distinguish.
To test the power of bees to appreciate color. -- Lubbock.
Syn: To {Appreciate}, {Estimate}, {Esteem}.
Usage: Estimate is an act of judgment; esteem is an act of valuing or prizing, and when applied to individuals, denotes a sentiment of moral approbation. See {Estimate}. Appreciate lies between the two. As compared with estimate, it supposes a union of sensibility with judgment, producing a nice and delicate perception. As compared with esteem, it denotes a valuation of things according to their appropriate and distinctive excellence, and not simply their moral worth. Thus, with reference to the former of these (delicate perception), an able writer says. "Women have a truer appreciation of character than men;" and another remarks, "It is difficult to appreciate the true force and distinctive sense of terms which we are every day using." So, also, we speak of the difference between two things, as sometimes hardly appreciable. With reference to the latter of these (that of valuation as the result of a nice perception), we say, "It requires a peculiar cast of character to appreciate the poetry of Wordsworth;" "He who has no delicacy himself, can not appreciate it in others;" "The thought of death is salutary, because it leads us to appreciate worldly things aright." Appreciate is much used in cases where something is in danger of being overlooked or undervalued; as when we speak of appreciating the difficulties of a subject, or the risk of an undertaking. So Lord Plunket, referring to an "ominous silence" which prevailed among the Irish peasantry, says, "If you knew how to appreciate that silence, it is more formidable than the most clamorous opposition." In like manner, a person who asks some favor of another is apt to say, "I trust you will appreciate my motives in this request." Here we have the key to a very frequent use of the word. It is hardly necessary to say that appreciate looks on the favorable side of things. we never speak of appreciating a man's faults, but his merits. This idea of regarding things favorably appears more fully in the word appreciative; as when we speak of an appreciative audience, or an appreciative review, meaning one that manifests a quick perception and a ready valuation of excellence.
Appreciate (v. i.) （土地，貨幣等）增值 [（+in）] To rise in value. [See note under {Rise}, v. i.] -- J. Morse.
Appreciate (v.) Recognize with gratitude; be grateful for.
Appreciate (v.) Be fully aware of; realize fully; "Do you appreciate the full meaning of this letter?" [syn: {appreciate}, {take account}].
Appreciate (v.) Hold dear; "I prize these old photographs" [syn: {prize}, {value}, {treasure}, {appreciate}].
Appreciate (v.) Gain in value; "The yen appreciated again!" [syn: {appreciate}, {apprize}, {apprise}, {revalue}] [ant: {depreciate}, {devaluate}, {devalue}, {undervalue}].
Appreciate (v.) Increase the value of; "The Germans want to appreciate the Deutsche Mark" [syn: {appreciate}, {apprize}, {apprise}] [ant: {depreciate}].
Appreciatingly (adv.) 欣賞地，讚賞地；感激地 In an appreciating manner; with appreciation.
Appreciatingly (adv.) In an appreciating or appreciative manner; with appreciation.
Appreciatingly (adv.) Appreciatively, with appreciation: in an appreciating manne.
Appreciation (n.) 欣賞，鑑賞；賞識 [U] [S1] [（+of）]； 正確評價，鑑識 [U] [（+of）]；感謝 [U] [S1] [（+for）] A just valuation or estimate of merit, worth, weight, etc.; recognition of excellence.
Appreciation (n.) Accurate perception; true estimation; as, an appreciation of the difficulties before us; an appreciation of colors.
His foreboding showed his appreciation of Henry's character. -- J. R. Green.
Appreciation (n.) A rise in value; -- opposed to {depreciation}.
Appreciation (n.) Understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something; "he has a good grasp of accounting practices" [syn: {appreciation}, {grasp}, {hold}].
Appreciation (n.) Delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values); "arrogance and lack of taste contributed to his rapid success"; "to ask at that particular time was the ultimate in bad taste" [syn: {taste}, {appreciation}, {discernment}, {perceptiveness}].
Appreciation (n.) An expression of gratitude; "he expressed his appreciation in a short note".
Appreciation (n.) A favorable judgment; "a small token in admiration of your works" [syn: {admiration}, {appreciation}].
Appreciation (n.) An increase in price or value; "an appreciation of 30% in the value of real estate" [ant: {depreciation}].
Appreciative (a.) [(+of)] 有欣賞力的；能確認價值的；表示讚賞的，感謝的 Having or showing a just or ready appreciation or perception; as, an appreciative audience. -- {Ap*pre"ci*a*tive*ly}, adv.
Appreciative (a.) Feeling or expressive of gratitude; "was appreciative of his efforts"; "an appreciative word"
Appreciative (a.) Having or showing appreciation or a favorable critical judgment or opinion; "appreciative of a beautiful landscape"; "an appreciative laugh from the audience"
Appreciatively (adv.) 欣賞地，讚賞地；感激地 With appreciation; in a grateful manner; "he accepted my offer appreciatively" [syn: {appreciatively}, {gratefully}] [ant: {unappreciatively}, {ungratefully}].
Appreciativeness (n.) 有鑒別力；有眼力; 有欣賞力 The quality of being appreciative; quick recognition of excellence.
Appreciativeness (n.) Warm friendly feelings of gratitude [syn: {gratefulness}, {thankfulness}, {appreciativeness}].
Appreciator (n.) 欣賞者，鑑賞者 [C] One who appreciates.
Appreciator (n.) A person who is fully aware of something and understands it; "he is not an appreciator of our dilemma".
Appreciatory (a.) 有鑑賞力的；感謝的 Showing appreciation; appreciative; as, appreciatory commendation. -- {Ap*pre"ci*a*to*ri*ly}, adv.
Apprehended (imp. & p. p.) of Apprehend
Apprehending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Apprehend
Apprehend (v. t.) 逮捕；對……擔慮 [+that]；理解，領會 [+that] To take or seize; to take hold of. [Archaic]
We have two hands to apprehend it. -- Jer. Taylor.
Apprehend (v. t.) Hence: To take or seize (a person) by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal.
Apprehend (v. t.) To take hold of with the understanding, that is, to conceive in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand; to recognize; to consider.
This suspicion of Earl Reimund, though at first but a buzz, soon got a sting in the king's head, and he violently apprehended it. -- Fuller.
The eternal laws, such as the heroic age apprehended them. -- Gladstone.
Apprehend (v. t.) To know or learn with certainty. [Obs.]
G. You are too much distrustful of my truth. E. Then you must give me leave to apprehend The means and manner how. -- Beau. & Fl.
Apprehend (v. t.) To anticipate; esp., to anticipate with anxiety, dread, or fear; to fear.
The opposition had more reason than the king to apprehend violence. -- Macaulay.
Syn: To catch; seize; arrest; detain; capture; conceive; understand; imagine; believe; fear; dread.
Usage: To {Apprehend}, {Comprehend}. These words come into comparison as describing acts of the mind. Apprehend denotes the laying hold of a thing mentally, so as to understand it clearly, at least in part. Comprehend denotes the embracing or understanding it in all its compass and extent. We may apprehended many truths which we do not comprehend. The very idea of God supposes that he may be apprehended, though not comprehended, by rational beings. "We may apprehended much of Shakespeare's aim and intention in the character of Hamlet or King Lear; but few will claim that they have comprehended all that is embraced in these characters." -- Trench.
Apprehend (v. i.) 擔慮；理解，領會 To think, believe, or be of opinion; to understand; to suppose.
Apprehend (v. i.) To be apprehensive; to fear.
It is worse to apprehend than to suffer. -- Rowe.
Apprehend (v.) Get the meaning of something; "Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?" [syn: {grok}, {get the picture}, {comprehend}, {savvy}, {dig}, {grasp}, {compass}, {apprehend}].
Apprehend (v.) Take into custody; "the police nabbed the suspected criminals" [syn: {collar}, {nail}, {apprehend}, {arrest}, {pick up}, {nab}, {cop}].
Apprehend (v.) Anticipate with dread or anxiety [syn: {apprehend}, {quail at}].
Apprehender (n.) One who apprehends.
Apprehender (n.) A person who knows or apprehends [syn: {knower}, {apprehender}].
Apprehender (n.) A person who seizes or arrests (especially a person who seizes or arrests in the name of justice).
Apprehensibiity (n.) The quality of being apprehensible. [R.] -- De Quincey.
Apprehensible (a.) 可理解的 Capable of being apprehended or conceived. "Apprehensible by faith." -- Bp. Hall. -- {Ap`*pre*hen"si*bly}, adv.
Apprehensible (a.) Capable of being apprehended or understood [syn: {apprehensible}, {intelligible}, {graspable}, {perceivable}, {understandable}].
Apprehension (n.) 恐懼，憂慮，擔心，掛念 [C] [U] [（+about/ for/ over）]；【書】逮捕，拘押 [U]；【書】理解，領悟 [U] The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension.
Apprehension (n.) The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped.
Apprehension (n.) The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment; intellection; perception.
Simple apprehension denotes no more than the soul's naked intellection of an object. -- Glanvill.
Apprehension (n.) Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.
Note: In this sense, the word often denotes a belief, founded on sufficient evidence to give preponderation to the mind, but insufficient to induce certainty; as, in our apprehension, the facts prove the issue.
To false, and to be thought false, is all one in respect of men, who act not according to truth, but apprehension. -- South.
Apprehension (n.) The faculty by which ideas are conceived; understanding; as, a man of dull apprehension.
Apprehension (n.) Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; distrust or fear at the prospect of future evil.
After the death of his nephew Caligula, Claudius was in no small apprehension for his own life. -- Addison.
Syn: {Apprehension}, {Alarm}.
Usage: Apprehension springs from a sense of danger when somewhat remote, but approaching; alarm arises from danger when announced as near at hand. Apprehension is calmer and more permanent; alarm is more agitating and transient.
Apprehension (n.) Fearful expectation or anticipation; "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension" [syn: {apprehension}, {apprehensiveness}, {dread}].
Apprehension (n.) The cognitive condition of someone who understands; "he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect" [syn: {understanding}, {apprehension}, {discernment}, {savvy}].
Apprehension (n.) Painful expectation [syn: {apprehension}, {misgiving}].
Apprehension (n.) The act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal); "the policeman on the beat got credit for the collar" [syn: {apprehension}, {arrest}, {catch}, {collar}, {pinch}, {taking into custody}].
Apprehension (n.), Practice. The capture or arrest of a person. The term apprehension is applied to criminal cases, and arrest to civil cases; as, one having authority may arrest on civil process, and apprehend on a criminal warrant.
Apprehension (n.) [ U ] (Worry) （對未來或即將發生的不愉快之事的）憂慮，擔心，恐懼 Worry about the future, or a fear that something unpleasant is going to happen.
// It's normal to feel a little apprehension before starting a new job.
// There is some apprehension in the office about who the new director will be.
Apprehension (n.) [ U ] (Catching) (Formal) 逮捕；拘捕 The situation in which the police catch and arrest someone who has not obeyed the law.
// Both the army and the police were involved in the apprehension of the terrorists.
Apprehension (n.) [ U ] (Understanding) (Formal) 領會；理解；懂得 The act of understanding something.
Apprehensive (a.) 憂慮的，恐懼的 [（+about/ for/ of）] [+（that）]； 善於領會的；敏悟的；知曉的，有認識力的 [（+of）] Capable of apprehending, or quick to do so; apt; discerning.
It may be pardonable to imagine that a friend, a kind and apprehensive . . . friend, is listening to our talk. -- Hawthorne.
Apprehensive (a.) Knowing; conscious; cognizant. [R.]
A man that has spent his younger years in vanity and folly, and is, by the grace of God, apprehensive of it. -- Jer. Taylor.
Apprehensive (a.) Relating to the faculty of apprehension.
Judgment . . . is implied in every apprehensive act. -- Sir W. Hamilton.
Apprehensive (a.) Anticipative of something unfavorable' fearful of what may be coming; in dread of possible harm; in expectation of evil.
Not at all apprehensive of evils as a distance. -- Tillotson.
Reformers . . . apprehensive for their lives. -- Gladstone.
Apprehensive (a.) Sensible; feeling; perceptive. [R.]
Thoughts, my tormentors, armed with deadly stings, Mangle my apprehensive, tenderest parts. -- Milton.
Apprehensive (a.) Quick to understand; "a kind and apprehensive friend"- Nathaniel Hawthorne [syn: {apprehensive}, {discerning}].
Apprehensive (a.) Mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc; "apprehensive about her job"; "not used to a city and worried about small things"; "felt apprehensive about the consequences" [syn: {apprehensive}, {worried}].
Apprehensive (a.) In fear or dread of possible evil or harm; "apprehensive for one's life"; "apprehensive of danger".
Apprehensively (adv.) 擔心地；憂慮地；善於領會地；有知覺地；感覺得到地 In an apprehensive manner; with apprehension of danger.
Apprehensively (adv.) With anxiety or apprehension; "we watched anxiously" [syn: {anxiously}, {uneasily}, {apprehensively}].
Apprehensiveness (n.) 領悟力；憂慮感 The quality or state of being apprehensive.
Apprehensiveness (n.) Fearful expectation or anticipation; "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension" [syn: {apprehension}, {apprehensiveness}, {dread}].
Apprentice (n.) [C] 學徒，徒弟；見習生；初學者，生手 One who is bound by indentures or by legal agreement to serve a mechanic, or other person, for a certain time, with a view to learn the art, or trade, in which his master is bound to instruct him.