Appropriate
[ə'prəʊprɪət] or [əˈpropriɪt]
Definition
(verb.) take possession of by force, as after an invasion; 'the invaders seized the land and property of the inhabitants'; 'The army seized the town'; 'The militia captured the castle'.
(adj.) suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc; 'a book not appropriate for children'; 'a funeral conducted the appropriate solemnity'; 'it seems that an apology is appropriate' .
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Definition
(a.) Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.
(v. t.) To take to one's self in exclusion of others; to claim or use as by an exclusive right; as, let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit.
(v. t.) To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, in exclusion of all others; -- with to or for; as, a spot of ground is appropriated for a garden; to appropriate money for the increase of the navy.
(v. t.) To make suitable; to suit.
(v. t.) To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property.
(n.) A property; attribute.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Adopt, take to one's self, take as one's own.[2]. Take, seize, abstract, steal, purloin.[3]. Assign, apportion, allot, set apart.[4]. Apply, use, employ, convert.
a. Adapted, fit, fitting, befitting, apt, PAT, suitable, proper, becoming, due, seemly, agreeable, conformable, congruous, germane, convenient, pertinent, apposite, felicitous, applicable, APROPOS, to the point, to the purpose.
Editor: Moore
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See FIT]
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Definition
v.t. to make the private property of any one: to take to one's self as one's own: to set apart for a purpose: (arch.) to select as suitable (with to).—adj. set apart for a particular purpose: peculiar: suitable.—adv. Appropriately.—ns. Apprō′priateness; Appropriā′tion the act of appropriating: in Church law the making over of a benefice to an owner who receives the tithes but is bound to appoint a vicar for the spiritual service of the parish: in Constitutional law the principle that supplies granted by parliament are only to be expended for particular objects specified by itself.—adj. Apprō′priative.—ns. Apprō′priativeness; Apprō′priator one who appropriates.—Appropriation clause a clause in a parliamentary bill allotting revenue to any special purpose or purposes.
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Examples
- Much cant have I heard and read about 'maiden modesty,' but, properly used, and not hackneyed, the words are good and appropriate words. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The suggestion is not appropriate to our Dora. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Appropriate, but unavailing. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The operator next sends the letter M by depressing the appropriate key. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Such thoughts do not find their appropriate expression in the emotions of the nursery. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The young lady was astonished to find visitors at the gate, and expressed her feelings in appropriate action. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- That mysterious adventure of yours, she said, still remains involved in its own appropriate midnight darkness. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He then laid a telegraph from Washington to Baltimore under the auspices of the United States Government, which after long hesitation appropriated $30,000 for the purpose. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Congress had appropriated $8,000 to maintain it for the first year, and placed it under the direction of the Postmaster-General. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- A little too much, indeed, to have the opportunities opened to me by Mr and Mrs Boffin, appropriated by a mere Secretary and Pa's lodger! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I cannot describe the delight I felt when I learned the ideas appropriated to each of these sounds, and was able to pronounce them. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- In 1844 the United States Congress appropriated $30,000 to build a line from Baltimore to Washington, and on May 24, 1844, the notable message, What Hath God wrought? Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- They either lay their eggs in the nest thus appropriated, or oddly enough build one for themselves on the top of it. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Emma could look perfectly unconscious and innocent, and answer in a manner that appropriated nothing. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Smith, of Maine, was very much interested by now, and drafted a bill appropriating $30,000 for this purpose. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- You don't think there is any probability of his appropriating the money to his own use? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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