Application and Background

noun

• The act of bringing something to bear; using it for a particular purpose.
  • usage: "he advocated the application of statistics to the problem"; "a novel application of electronics to medical diagnosis"
  • synonyms: practical application
• A verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school.
  • usage: "December 31 is the deadline for applications"
• The work of applying something.
  • usage: "the doctor prescribed a topical application of iodine"; "a complete bleach requires several applications"; "the surface was ready for a coating of paint";
  • synonyms: coating, covering
• A program that gives a computer instructions that provide the user with tools to accomplish a task.
  • usage: "he has tried several different word processing applications"
  • synonyms: application program, applications programme
• Liquid preparation having a soothing or antiseptic or medicinal action when applied to the skin.
  • usage: "a lotion for dry skin"
  • synonyms: lotion
• A diligent effort.
  • usage: "it is a job requiring serious application"
  • synonyms: diligence
• The action of putting something into operation.
  • usage: "the application of maximum thrust"; "massage has far-reaching medical applications"; "the application of indexes to tables of data"

• (n.) The act of applying as a means; the employment of means to accomplish an end; specific use.
• (n.) The act of directing or referring something to a particular case, to discover or illustrate agreement or disagreement, fitness or correspondence; as, I make the remark, and leave you to make the application; the application of a theory.
• (n.) Hence, in specific uses: (a) That part of a sermon or discourse in which the principles before laid down and illustrated are applied to practical uses; the "moral" of a fable. (b) The use of the principles of one science for the purpose of enlarging or perfecting another; as, the application of algebra to geometry.
• (n.) A request; a document containing a request; as, his application was placed on file.
• (n.) The capacity of being practically applied or used; relevancy; as, a rule of general application.
• (n.) The act of fixing the mind or closely applying one's self; assiduous effort; close attention; as, to injure the health by application to study.
• (n.) The act of making request of soliciting; as, an application for an office; he made application to a court of chancery.
• (n.) The thing applied.
• (n.) The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb.

Application is a request for a loan that includes the information about the potential borrower, the property and the requested loan that the solicited lender needs to make a decision. In a narrower sense, the application refers to a standardized application form called the "1003" which the borrower is obliged to fill out.

1. The system or problem to which a computer is applied. Reference is often made to an application as being either of the computational type (arithmetic computations predominate) or of the data processing type (data handling operations predominate).

noun

• A person's social heritage: previous experience or training.
  • usage: "he is a lawyer with a sports background"
• The part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground.
  • usage: "he posed her against a background of rolling hills"
  • synonyms: ground
• Information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem.
  • usage: "the embassy filled him in on the background of the incident"
  • synonyms: background knowledge
• Extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured.
  • usage: "they got a bad connection and could hardly hear one another over the background signals"
  • synonyms: background signal
• Relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation.
  • usage: "when the rain came he could hear the sound of thunder in the background"
• The state of the environment in which a situation exists.
  • usage: "you can't do that in a university setting"
  • synonyms: setting, scope
• Computer science. ( the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear)
  • synonyms: desktop, screen background
• Scenery hung at back of stage.
  • synonyms: backdrop, backcloth

verb

• Understate the importance or quality of.
  • usage: "he played down his royal ancestry"
  • synonyms: play down, downplay

• (n.) Ground in the rear or behind or in the distance, as opposed to the foreground or the ground in front.
• (n.) A place in obscurity or retirement or out of sight.
• (n.) The space which is behind and subordinate to a portrait or group of figures.
• (n.) Anything behind, serving as a foil; as, the statue had a background of red hangings.