apple

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   fruit with red, yellow, or green skin with a sweet or tart crispy white flesh

   We used to spend the summers eating delicious apples.

2. 2
   noun

   native Eurasian tree widely cultivated in many varieties for its firm rounded edible fruits

   My grandparents had an apple tree in their backyard.

3. 3
   noun

   A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus.

   All apples eaten ſoone after yͭ they be gathered, are cold, hard to digeſt, and do make ill and corrupted bloud, but being wel kept vntill yͤ next winter, or the year folowing, eatẽ [eaten] after meales, they are right holeſome, & doe confyrme the ſtomacke, & make good digeſtion, ſpecially if they be roſted or baked, […]

4. 4
   noun

   A tree of the genus Malus; especially Malus domestica which is cultivated for its edible fruit; the apple tree.

   Trees that beare Maſt, and Nuts, are commonly more laſting, than thoſe that beare Fruits; Eſpecially the Moiſter Fruits: As Oakes, Beeches, Cheſ-nuts, VVall-nuts, Almonds, Pine-Trees, &c. laſt longer than Apples, Peares, Plums, &c.

5. 5
   noun

   A person.

   “I saw a little guy with a can opener fooling around that gum machine,” was the reply. “And then?” asked McGonigle. “I can’t say,” replied the poor apple.

6. 6
   noun

   Synonym of CBer (“a CB radio enthusiast”).

   Because of overcrowding, many a CB enthusiast (called an "apple") is strapping an illegal linear amplifier ("boots") on to his transceiver ("ears") which is limited by the Federal Communications Commission ("Big Daddy" in the US) to an output power of no more than five watts.

7. 7
   noun

   A Native American or redskinned person who acts or thinks like a white (Caucasian) person.

   My ancestors five generations removed were "apples" who were "White" on the inside and "Red" on the outside. […] We need a new breed of "apples."

8. 8
   verb

   To make (something) appear like an apple (noun sense 1.1).

   To choose responsibly, our active citizen must know what is being offered, much of this knowledge being filtered through appearance: things must look what they are supposed to be. Apples must look like applies. One might say they have to be appled-up; varieties are selected for marketing which have the most apple-like qualities.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl Proto-Germanic *aplaz Proto-West Germanic *applu Old English æppel Middle English appel English apple The noun is derived from Middle English appel (“Malus domestica fruit or tree, apple; any type of fruit, nut, or tuber; tree bearing fruit; (figurative) ball, sphere; (Christianity) forbidden fruit in Eden”), from Old English æppel (“apple; any type of fruit; (figurative) ball, sphere; eyeball”), from Proto-West Germanic *applu (“apple; any type of fruit”), from Proto-Germanic *aplaz (“apple; any type of fruit”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl, *h₂é…