apple

noun21

1. •
   a hard round fruit with a red, green or yellow skin, which grows on trees

   • VVhat of my dross thou findest there, be bold / To throvv avvay, but yet preserve the Gold. / VVhat if my Gold be vvrapped up in Ore? / None throvvs avvay the Apple for the Core. — 1678
2. •
   A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus.
3. •
   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; […] — 1667
4. •
   A tree of the genus Malus; especially Malus domestica which is cultivated for its edible fruit; the apple tree.

   • If the grafted portion of an Apple or other tree were examined after one hundred years, the old cut surfaces would still be present, for mature or ripened wood, being dead, never unites. — 1913
5. •
   Ellipsis of Adam's apple (“the lump in the throat, usually more noticeable in men than in women; the laryngeal prominence”).

   • He looked with vague hope up and down the quay, a big apple bulging in his neck. — 1922
6. •
   Something which resembles the fruit of Malus domestica 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. — 1601
7. •
   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.

   • [T]he fly injects her juices into the oak leaf to raise an apple for hatching her young and therein supplies us vvith ink for our correspondence and improvement. — 1768
8. •
   A fruit of any kind.
9. •
   (slang, offensive) 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." — 1996
10. •
    Ellipsis of apple-green (“a bright green colour with a light tint of yellow, like that of a Granny Smith apple”).
11. •
    (informal) The round, fleshy part of a cheek between the eye and the corner of the mouth when a person is smiling.
12. •
    (Internet, humorous) An imaginary diminutive unit of height.

    • He's only three apples tall
13. •
    Synonym of applewood (“the wood of the apple tree”).
14. •
    (slang) 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. — 1928
15. •
    In full apple bowl: a round bowl of a tobacco pipe; also, a tobacco pipe with such a bowl.
16. •
    (historical) 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. — 1601
17. •
    (slang) An assist.
18. •
    (slang) Synonym of CBer (“a CB radio enthusiast”).
19. •
    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.
20. •
    (slang) In full old apple: a baseball.

    • Hey Dad! What do you say we toss the old apple around, huh? Sound like fun? — 1990
21. •
    (no longer used) 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”).

verb4

1. •
   To make (something) appear like an apple.

   • A large smile appled his full cheeks as the four sprytes eagerly served themselves from the seeds and thinly sliced fruits. — 2007
2. •
   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. — 2003
3. •
   (dialect) 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. — 1693
4. •
   (dialect, rare) To collect fir-cones.

noun1

1. •
   A computer produced by the company Apple Inc.