app

See also: App, APP, and app.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æp/
• IPA^(key): [ʔæʔp̚]

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: app
• Rhymes: -æp

Etymology 1

Shortening of application.

Noun

app (plural apps)

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

3. (education, informal) application (to a college etc.)
   • 2011, Nicole Leigh Shepherd, Stealing Bases:

     “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.”

Hyponyms

• API app
• function app
• killer app
• logic app
• mobile app
• Web app

 

Related terms

• app service

Translations

small computer application

• Afrikaans: toep, êpp
• Arabic: تَطْبِيق m (taṭbīq)

  Hijazi Arabic: تَطْبِيق m (taṭbīg)

• Armenian: հավելված (hy) (havelvac), գործադիր (hy) (gorcadir)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 應用程式／应用程式 (jing³ jung⁶ cing⁴ sik¹), 应用程式 (jing³ jung⁶ cing⁴ sik¹), app (ep¹)

  Mandarin: 應用程序／应用程序 (yìngyòng chéngxù), 应用程序 (yìngyòng chéngxù) (mainland China), 應用程式／应用程式 (zh) (yìngyòng chéngshì), 应用程式 (zh) (yìngyòng chéngshì) (Taiwan), 應用／应用 (zh) (yìngyòng), 应用 (zh) (yìngyòng), APP

• Danish: app c
• Dutch: app (nl) m, applicatie (nl) f
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: app (et), äpp
• Faroese: app f
• Finnish: sovellus (fi), mobiilisovellus (fi)
• French: appli (fr) f
• German: App (de) f
• Hebrew: יישום m (yisúm)
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• Hungarian: alkalmazás (hu)
• Icelandic: app n
• Irish: aip f
• Italian: app (it) f
• Japanese: アプリ (apuri)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 앱 (ko) (aep)
• Lithuanian: programėlė f
• Maori: taupānga, pūmanawa tautono
• Polish: apka (pl) f
• Portuguese: app m or f, (Brazil) aplicativo (pt) m, (Portugal) aplicação (pt) f
• Russian: приложе́ние (ru) n (priložénije), програ́ммка (ru) f (prográmmka), прикладна́я програ́мма f (prikladnája prográmma), програ́мма (ru) f (prográmma)
• Spanish: apli f, app m or f
• Swedish: app (sv), mobilapp, mobilapplikation (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: app (tr), mobil uygulama
• Vietnamese: ứng dụng (vi)

Etymology 2

Shortening of appetizer.

Noun

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 […]

Etymology 3

Shortening of appearance.

Noun

app (plural apps)

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

See also

• Appendix:American Dialect Society words of the year

Anagrams

• PAP, PPA, pap

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Catalan

Noun

app m (plural apps)

1. app

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Danish

Etymology

From English app, shortened from application.

Noun

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

1. (computing) app

Synonyms

• applikation
• mobilapp

Derived terms

• appudvikler
• mobilapp

Declension

Declension of app

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	app	appen	apper apps	appsene apperne appene
genitive	apps	appens	appers apps'	appsenes appernes appenes

References

• “app” in Den Danske Ordbog

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Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛp/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: app
• Rhymes: -ɛp

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• appen
• appgroep
• groepsapp

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Faroese

Etymology

From English app, from application, from Latin applicātiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aʰpː/

  Rhymes: -aʰpː

Noun

app f (genitive singular appar, plural appir)

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

Declension

Declension of app
f2	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	app	appin	appir	appirnar
accusative	app	appina	appir	appirnar
dative	app	appini	appum	appunum
genitive	appar	apparinnar	appa	appanna

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Hungarian

Etymology

From English app, shortening of application.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

app (plural appok)

1. (computing) app, application

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	app	appok
accusative	appot	appokat
dative	appnak	appoknak
instrumental	appal	appokkal
causal-final	appért	appokért
translative	appá	appokká
terminative	appig	appokig
essive-formal	appként	appokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	appban	appokban
superessive	appon	appokon
adessive	appnál	appoknál
illative	appba	appokba
sublative	appra	appokra
allative	apphoz	appokhoz
elative	appból	appokból
delative	appról	appokról
ablative	apptól	appoktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	appé	appoké
non-attributive possessive - plural	appéi	appokéi

Possessive forms of app
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	appom	appjaim
2nd person sing.	appod	appjaid
3rd person sing.	appja	appjai
1st person plural	appunk	appjaink
2nd person plural	appotok	appjaitok
3rd person plural	appjuk	appjaik

Synonyms

• alkalmazás, applikáció

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Icelandic

Etymology

From English app, from application, from Latin applicātiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ahp/

  Rhymes: -ahp

Noun

app n (genitive singular apps, nominative plural öpp)

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

Declension

declension of app

n-s	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	app	appið	öpp	öppin
accusative	app	appið	öpp	öppin
dative	appi	appinu	öppum	öppunum
genitive	apps	appsins	appa	appanna

Synonyms

• smáforrit

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Italian

Noun

app f (uncountable)

1. app

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Ludian

Etymology

From .

Noun

app

1. father-in-law

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Portuguese

Etymology

Reduction of English application or Portuguese aplicação.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛ.pi]

Noun

app f or m (plural s)

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 ...

Synonyms

• (app): aplicação, aplicativo (Brazil)

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Spanish

Etymology

From English app.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈab/ [ˈaβ̞]

Noun

app f (plural apps)

1. (computing) app

Usage notes

• Feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like this one regularly take the singular articles el and un, usually reserved for masculine nouns.

  el app, un app

• They maintain the usual feminine singular articles la and una if an adjective intervenes between the article and the noun.

Synonyms

• aplicación f