Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Informal A computer application.
Wiktionary
- n. computing An application (program), especially a small one designed for a mobile device.
Etymologies
- From application. (Wiktionary)
- Short for application. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“CHARTIER At first PackRat seemed to be a strange app, because it's an * app* made for working with Backpack, a web service.”
“What finally fixed it for me was to re-install the applications using the package manager, by running: cd/data/app for app in *. apk; do pm install - r $app; done”
“Next, we dropped flash_session_cookie_middleware. rb in the app/middleware directory. require 'rack/utils' class FlashSessionCookieMiddleware def initialize (app, session_key = '_session_id') @app = app”
“At first PackRat seemed to be a strange app, because it's an * app* made for working with Backpack, a web service.”
“DAVIDCHARTIER At first PackRat seemed to be a strange app, because it's an * app* made for working with Backpack, a web service.”
“[body] end end class MyMiddleware def initialize (app) @app = app end def call (env) @app. call (env) end end use MyMiddleware run BasicRackApp. new”
“Well, strictly speaking the term app is short for the application which refers to any piece of software that works on a software system of sorts.”
“Microsoft on Tuesday filed its latest argument with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, which included the opinions of a linguistic expert who supported the software giant's argument that the term "app store" was generic and shouldn't be trademarked by Apple.”
The Wall Street Journal: Apple, Microsoft Hire Linguists in App Feud
“Microsoft Corp. and Apple Inc. have both hired linguists to serve as experts in the tech titan's ongoing battle over whether or not the government can grant a trademark for the term "app store.”
The Wall Street Journal: Apple, Microsoft Hire Linguists in App Feud
“Apple also argued that its competitors have several alternatives to using the term "app store," pointing to the fact that competitors use terms such as "marketplace" to refer to central download locations for mobile applications.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘app’.
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3-Letter Scrabble Words Which Do Not ...
A list of 3-letter words which cannot be formed by adding a letter to a 2-letter word (see Ken Clark's word lists found at http://www.seattlescrab...
ace, act, aff, aft, apo, app, apt, auk, ava, ave, avo, azo and 225 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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Creative List
Words that evoke creativity
creativity, accidental, serendipity, chance, innocence, child, imagination, intuition, Steve jobs, Michaelangelo, Bach, Escher and 28 more...
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Abbreviations for taking notes
As an ESL (English as a second language) learner, I think this sort of list would be most utile.
btw, lng, ex., ch., ed., w\, w\o, i.e., e.g., etc., b\c, b\4 and 42 more...
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Fun with Apocopes
Words created by removing the end of a longer or original word. See also Fun with Aphesis.
abs, ad, bio, veg, veggie, tux, auto, bike, carbs, pecs, bro, sis and 186 more...
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erich13's list
My Tag Cloud
addon, admire, adobeair, advice, alist, android, api, app, apple, augmentedreality, author, badge and 179 more...
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the hotlist
short, sweet, epic, catchy, sassy, sexy & sizzling.
( personal list, randomness )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/...zing, epic, win, fail, hot, warp, times, clip, onyx, wonky, pwn, leet and 1493 more...
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Words I Use On A Regular Basis
interesting, skillz, janky, podcast, frag, blog, ninja, open-source, manga, wii, blarney, frood and 15 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for app.

seanahan Also application.
Edit: As in killer app. Jan 21, 2008
bedraggled appended Jan 19, 2008