{
  "id": "applying.action",
  "term": "applying",
  "sense": "action",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 8,
  "arena": "linguistics",
  "domain": "action",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "to put something onto a surface by a tool",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "put.placement",
      "tools.tool",
      "surface.exterior"
    ],
    "interaction": "Putting something onto a surface by a tool is this action.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "contact between object and surface",
      "intentional coverage",
      "mediated placement"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "A painter uses a roller to apply emulsion paint to the living room wall of 24 Rue de la Paix in Paris.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    },
    {
      "text": "Technicians apply thermal paste to the CPU of a Cray-1 supercomputer during 1976 maintenance in Colorado Springs.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "Conservators apply linseed oil with a bristle brush to Leonardo's 'Last Supper' during the 1999 Milan restoration.",
      "domain": "art"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "action.deed",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "use.application",
      "note": "enables",
      "type": "enables"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "limit.boundary",
    "measurement.quantitative",
    "print.material",
    "stranger.unmodeled",
    "study.learning"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "applied",
    "applies",
    "apply",
    "applying"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-applying.action"
}