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[bakum123]

what's the difference of meaning between "appilance" and "application" in detail?

[CP]

I suspect that no one has answered your question yet because it is not clear what you mean.

An appliance [watch your spelling!] is an apparatus used for some purpose. We call refrigerators and ovens kitchen appliances, for example.

An application is a use for something, nothing like an apparatus.

Did you have a specific context in which you have to choose between these two words?
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[bakum123]

o,k i'll ask the same question again
sorry for that my previous question wasn't concrete
thank you anyway

you know, the meanings of the words for " appliance" and " application"

Look, Here is my question.
Can both appliance and application be used as the meaning of "put something in use, or practice? of course, appliance has the meaning of application in a dictionary? but as I know, appliance is hardly used as the meaning for "knowledge is its use for a particular purpose". in this case, application is better I think, would you expound your views on this for me?

[CP]

I can't think of a sentence in which either "appliance" and "application" without changing the meaning. But I could be wrong, or just not imaginative enough.

Maybe if you have a sentence in mind, we can look at it and decide.
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[lotus]

Hi Bakum123,

http://www.infoplease.com/dictionary/appliance

http://www.poemuseum.org/selected_works/red_death.html
In Poe's Masque of the Red Death, he wrote of Prince Prospero "The prince had provided all the appliances of pleasure."

Here, appliance does not have the same meaning as application.

Appliance as a noun generally means a moderately large practical mechanical household device (#2).

Application as a noun generally means the useful end-user device or software of an idea or a design.

In Poe's passage, the appliances were the vehicles of pleasure. They were not just the dishes and utensils. They were also the decor, the food and the atmosphere. Here, the appliances were the instruments of pleasure (#1).

You may mean the actual act of applying something or the application of something (#3).

He's going to apply the glue.
He proceeded with the application of the glue.
He proceeded with the appliance of the glue.

I wouldn't say the third sentence is wrong. It is just rarely used (though sometimes you'll see it, as below).

The appliance of chrome trim on the edges of the car made the car look great.
or
The toxicity of the epoxy necessitated careful appliance.


--lotus
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[Lorikeet]

Thank you Lotus. I would never in a million years have thought of any of those examples. That might be an indication to bakum123 that currently it is not used much by native speakers.