app

• IPA^(key): /æp/

• Audio (US)

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• Hyphenation: app
• Rhymes: -æp

Shortening of application.

app (plural apps)

1. (computing, mobile telephony) An application (program), especially a small one designed for a mobile device.
   • 2019 February 3, 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.

• app service

Shortening of appetizer.

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 […]

Shortening of appearance.

app (plural apps)

1. (sports) an appearance in a game (e.g., a player with 10 apps in a season played 10 times)

• Appendix:American Dialect Society words of the year

• PAP, PPA, pap

app m (plural apps)

1. app

From English app, shortened from application.

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

1. (computing) app

• applikation
• mobilapp

• appudvikler
• mobilapp

• “app” in Den Danske Ordbog

From English app. The sense message sent using an app is influenced by the app name WhatsApp.

• IPA^(key): /ɛp/

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• Hyphenation: app
• Rhymes: -ɛp

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. (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.

• appen
• appgroep
• groepsapp

From English app, from application, from Latin applicātiō.

• IPA^(key): /aʰpː/

  Rhymes: -aʰpː

app f (genitive singular appar, plural appir)

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

From English app, shortening of application.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒpː]
• Hyphenation: app

app (plural appok)

1. (computing) app, application

• alkalmazás, applikáció

From English app, from application, from Latin applicātiō.

• IPA^(key): /ahp/

  Rhymes: -ahp

app n (genitive singular apps, nominative plural öpp)

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

• smáforrit

app f (invariable)

1. app

From Proto-Finnic *appi.

app

1. father-in-law

Reduction of English application or Portuguese aplicação.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): [ˈɛ.pi]

app f or m (in variation) (plural apps)

1. (computing) app (small computer application)
   • 2015, Peter Thiel, De Zero a Um, Leya →ISBN

     A realização de pequenas melhorias relativamente a algo que já existe poderá leválo 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 ...

• (app): aplicação, aplicativo (Brazil)

From English app.

• IPA^(key): /ˈap/

app f (plural apps)

1. (computing) app

• The feminine noun app is like other feminine nouns starting with a stressed a sound in that it takes the definite article el (normally reserved for masculine nouns) in the singular when there is no intervening adjective:

el app

• However, if an adjective, even one that begins with a stressed a sound such as alta or ancha, intervenes between the article and the noun, the article reverts to la.

• aplicación f