Apple

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The fruit of the tree Malus domestica, chiefly with a green, red, or yellow skin, cultivated in temperate climates for cidermaking, cooking, and eating.

   “[T]hey [i.e., writers] aſſigne and lay to India, the countrey of the Aſpagores, ſo plentifull in vines, laurels, and box, and generally of all ſorts of apple trees and other fruitfull trees that grovv vvithin Greece.”

2. isim Often with a qualifying word: any fruit or vegetable, or any other thing (such as a cone or gall) produced by a plant, especially if from a tree and similar to the fruit of Malus domestica (noun sense 1.1).

   “custard apple    rose apple    thorn apple”

3. isim Something which resembles the fruit of Malus domestica (noun sense 1.1) in shape (such as a ball, breast, or globe) or colour.

   “[H]old a round ball or hollovv apple of glaſſe full of vvater againſt the Sunne, it vvill be ſo hot, that it is ready to burne any cloth that it toucheth.”

4. isim Ellipsis of Adam's apple (“the lump in the throat, usually more noticeable in men than in women; the laryngeal prominence”).

   “The sweat of fear and exertion was streaming down his face and chest, and his breath came in short, tearing, hard-drawn gasps and gulps, while the apple in his throat leaped up and down ceaselessly like a ball balanced on a dancing jet of water.”

5. isim Ellipsis of apple-green (“a bright green colour with a light tint of yellow, like that of a Granny Smith apple”).
6. isim Ellipsis of apple of the eye (“the pupil, or pupil and iris, of the eye, originally believed to be spherical; also, the eyeball”).

   “None have their eies all of one colour: for the ball or apple in the middeſt is ordinarily of another colour than the vvhite about it.”

7. isim The round, fleshy part of a cheek between the eye and the corner of the mouth when a person is smiling.
8. isim The surface of revolution of a circular arc of an angle greater than 180° rotated about the straight line passing through the arc's two endpoints.
9. isim In full apple bowl: a round bowl of a tobacco pipe; also, a tobacco pipe with such a bowl.
10. isim In full old apple: a baseball.

    “Hey Dad! What do you say we toss the old apple around, huh? Sound like fun?”

11. isim According to postbiblical Christian tradition, the fruit of the tree of knowledge which was eaten by Adam and Eve despite God commanding them not to do so; the forbidden fruit.

    “Him [man] by fraud I [Satan] have ſeduc'd / From his Creator, and the more to increaſe / Your vvonder, vvith an Apple; […]”

12. isim Synonym of pome (“a type of fruit in which the often edible flesh arises from the swollen base of the flower and not from the carpels”).
13. isim An imaginary diminutive unit of height.

    “He's only three apples tall”

14. isim 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.”

15. isim Synonym of applewood (“the wood of the apple tree”).
16. isim A fruit of any kind.
17. isim 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.”

18. isim 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.”

19. isim An assist.
20. isim 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."”

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

    “A large smile appled his full cheeks as the four sprytes eagerly served themselves from the seeds and thinly sliced fruits.”

22. fiil To become like an apple.

    “He glanced at me, his cheeks appled in the impish grin I was learning to recognise as the clever under-side of his broad and gentle smile.”

23. fiil To collect fir-cones.
24. fiil Of a flower bud or vegetable (especially a root vegetable): to grow into the shape of an apple.

    “To Pome or Apple, is ſaid of the Heads of Artichokes vvhen they grovv round, and full ſhaped as an Apple. It is ſaid alſo of Lettuce, &c.”

25. özel isim Nickname for New York City: a major city in New York, United States; more commonly in the form the Big Apple.
26. özel isim A female given name from English.
27. özel isim A surname.
28. isim A computer produced by the company Apple Inc.

    “Arthur bought the Apple anyway. Over a few days he also acquired some astronomical software, plotted the movements of stars, drew rough little diagrams of how he seemed to remember the stars to have been […]”