ALL meanings of apple
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A a - variable noun apple An apple is a round fruit with smooth green, yellow, or red skin and firm white flesh. 3
- noun apple a rosaceous tree, Malus sieversii, native to Central Asia but widely cultivated in temperate regions in many varieties, having pink or white fragrant flowers and firm rounded edible fruits 3
- noun apple the fruit of this tree, having red, yellow, or green skin and crisp whitish flesh 3
- noun apple the wood of this tree 3
- noun apple any of several unrelated trees that have fruits similar to the apple, such as the custard apple, sugar apple, and May apple 3
- noun apple a round, firm, fleshy, edible fruit with a green, yellow, or red skin and small seeds 3
- noun apple any of the trees (genus Malus) of the rose family bearing this fruit, widely distributed in temperate regions 3
- noun apple any of various plants bearing applelike fruits, or growths, as the May apple, love apple, etc. 3
- abbreviation Technical meaning of APPLE Apple Computer, Inc. 3
- noun apple the usually round, red or yellow, edible fruit of a small tree, Malus sylvestris, of the rose family. 1
- noun apple the tree, cultivated in most temperate regions. 1
- noun apple the fruit of any of certain other species of tree of the same genus. 1
- noun apple any of these trees. 1
- noun apple any of various other similar fruits, or fruitlike products or plants, as the custard apple, love apple, May apple, or oak apple. 1
- noun apple anything resembling an apple in size and shape, as a ball, especially a baseball. 1
- noun apple Bowling. an ineffectively bowled ball. 1
- noun apple Slang. a red capsule containing a barbiturate, especially secobarbital. 1
- noun apple The round fruit of a tree of the rose family, which typically has thin red or green skin and crisp flesh. Many varieties have been developed as dessert or cooking fruit or for making cider. 1
- noun Technical meaning of apple (language) A revision of APL for the Illiac IV. 1
- noun apple fruit 1
- noun apple fruit tree 1
- noun Definition of apple in Technology (company) Manufacturers of the Macintosh range of personal computers as well as the earlier Apple I, Apple II and Lisa. Founded on 1 April 1976 by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Apples were among the first microcomputers. They originally used the 6502 processor and are still being made (August 1994), now using the 65816. The Apple II line, which includes the Apple I, is the longest existing line of microcomputers. Steve Jobs left Apple (involuntarily) and started NeXT and later returned when Apple bought NeXT in late 1997(?). Quarterly sales $2150M, profits $138M (Aug 1994). http://apple.com/. 1
- adjective apple containing or made from apples 0
- noun apple A common, round fruit produced by the tree Malus domestica, cultivated in temperate climates. 0
- noun apple Any of various tree-borne fruits or vegetables especially considered as resembling an apple; also (with qualifying words) used to form the names of other specific fruits such as custard apple, thorn apple etc. 0
- noun apple The fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, eaten by Adam and Eve according to post-Biblical Christian tradition; the forbidden fruit. 0
- noun apple A tree of the genus Malus, especially one cultivated for its edible fruit; the apple tree. 0
- noun apple The wood of the apple tree. 0
- noun apple (in the plural, Cockney rhyming slang) Short for apples and pears, slang for stairs. 0
- noun apple (Obsolete (No longer in use)) (baseball, slang) The ball in baseball. 0
- noun apple (Informal) When smiling, the round, fleshy part of the cheeks between the eyes and the corners of the mouth. 0
- noun apple (pejorative, ethnic slur) A Native American or red-skinned person who acts and/or thinks like a white (Caucasian) person. 0