app

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Abbreviation of approach.

   10 Station App

2. 2
   noun

   An application (program), especially a small one designed for a mobile device.

   A visual tool can be thought of as a graphics app that generates most of your program's GUI code for you

3. 3
   noun

   application (use, purpose; not a computer program)

   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.

4. 4
   noun

   application (to a college etc.)

   “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.”

5. 5
   noun

   appetizer

   The food is some of Breck's best: apps like sweet potato gnocchi with smoked chicken and sage cream[…]

6. 6
   noun

   An appearance in a game.

   That player has had ten apps this season.

7. 7
   name

   A surname from German.

8. 8
   noun

   Abbreviation of appeals.

Etymology

Shortening of application.