applying

comparative more applying · superlative most applying

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of apply

plural applyings

1. uncountableusuallyThe act of applying; an application.

   The League felt that no benefit could arise from meek and gentle applyings to Parliament […]

   1881, Charles Stewart Parnell, Report of the Trial of the Queen

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   A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place. Applying a force tangential to the knob is essentially equivalent to applying one perpendicular to a radial line defining the lever.

   2012 March 28, Henry Petroski, “Opening Doors”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, pages 112–3