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apple

/ap-uhl/US // ˈæp əl //UK // (ˈæpəl) //

苹果,苹果公司,蘋果,苹果公司的

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the usually round, red or yellow, edible fruit of a small tree, Malus sylvestris, of the rose family.
    • : the tree, cultivated in most temperate regions.
    • : the fruit of any of certain other species of tree of the same genus.
    • : any of these trees.
    • : any of various other similar fruits, or fruitlike products or plants, as the custard apple, love apple, May apple, or oak apple.
    • : Informal. anything resembling an apple in size and shape, as a ball, especially a baseball.
    • : Bowling. an ineffectively bowled ball.
    • : Slang. a red capsule containing a barbiturate, especially secobarbital.

Phrases

  • apple a day
  • apple of one's eye
  • apple polisher
  • apples and oranges
  • polish the apple
  • rotten apple
  • upset the applecart

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • In that sense, comparing 2000 to 2020 isn’t “apples to apples,” he says.

  • Many flowers, from apples to zinnias, sport both male and female parts.

  • This scrub also boasts a string of household ingredients such as pink Himalayan sea salt and apple cider vinegar to remove even the most stubborn dry patches.

  • While the farm does sell some apples to wholesale distributors, Mofenson says, “Agritourism is really our primary focus.”

  • The worst thing that can happen to them is to serve with a bad apple.

  • Leapolitan responded by saying, “hopefully youll [sic] bite into a poison apple.”

  • Apple customers, on the other hand, are used to paying premium for perceived quality.

  • The process of co-opting black music and selling it back to the adoring public in whiteface is as American as apple pie.

  • Companies like Delta, Apple, and Nike flex their political muscle on behalf of gay rights.

  • Apple, PetSmart, Wells Fargo, Marriott, and Delta also spoke out.

  • This gives to the second volume something of the smell of an apple store-room.

  • Twenty acres of apple trees all in a orchard together, and twenty acres of strawberries set out betwixt and between the rows!

  • All this while Squinty was chewing on the apple which he had picked up from the ground after he had jumped over the rope.

  • And it did not take Squinty long to learn to jump the rope when there was no apple on the other side.

  • Then Squinty would toss the apple up in the air, off his nose, and catch it as it came down.