apple
(æpəl )
Word forms: apples
1. variable noun A1
An apple is a round fruit with smooth green, yellow, or red skin and firm white flesh.
I want an apple.
...2kg cooking apples.
...his ongoing search for the finest varieties of apple.
...a large garden with apple trees in it.
2. See also Adam's apple, Big Apple, crab apple
3. the apple of your eye phrase
If you say that someone is the apple of your eye, you mean that they are very important to you and you are extremely fond of them.
Penny's only son was the apple of her eye.
Synonyms: favourite, pick, choice, dear
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Idioms:
American as apple pie
typical of American culture or the American way of life
Jeans are as American as apple pie and old jeans show a touch of class.
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a bad apple or a rotten apple
a dishonest, immoral, or unpleasant person who has a bad influence on those around them
They made it clear that they were not going to tolerate a bad apple in the United States Senate.
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the apple of your eye
the person that you like more than anyone else
I was the apple of my father's eye.
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Collocations:
apple cake apple crop apple farm apple filling apple grower apple harvest apple seed apple strudel apple variety apple vinegar cooking apple crisp apple dice an apple fresh apple juicy apple red apple sour apple sweet apple
Her mushroom scotch eggs and mini apple cake will make you wish for the invention of smell-o-vision.
The Sun
It was an apple cake and not very good.
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It also has a narrow-gauge railway and a time-warp tearoom with a one-track menu - apple pie, apple cake, parsnip and apple soup ...
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Whatever you do, don't skip the gooey sticky toffee apple cake.
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Afterwards, treat your friends and family with this fast, delicious apple cake (see panel), which uses mostly honey instead of sugar, and ground almonds instead of flour.
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The apple crop was down 20 to 30 per cent so apple prices have to go up.
The Sun
It was a bumper year for fruits, with the earliest apple crop on record and exceptional berries that swelled up plump in the wet summer.
Times, Sunday Times
Some people predict a bumper apple crop if all the blossom, delayed from opening by the cold, comes out together and it stays warm.
The Sun
The apple crop has also done well, including wild crab apples.
Times, Sunday Times
Crop damage to the apple crop was estimated at $3 million.
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He abandoned the city for an upstate apple farm he'd bought during the good times.
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Tall red rock formations that are typical of the region also surround the park, which contains a 43acre ha working apple farm.
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After resigning from the cabinet in 1957, he returned to his apple farm and packaging business.
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The area also offers hiking and paths with signs, camping, birdwatching and tours of local apple farms.
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Besides grapes, the valley also has numerous apple farms, many of them with roadside apple stands or pick your own programs.
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Spoon the crumble over the rhubarb and apple filling, then sprinkle over the hazelnuts.
The Sun
It has a sweet pastry crust with a stewed apple filling and the meringue topping makes it look more like a lemon meringue pie.
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For the spiced apple filling ?
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Spread the cooled apple filling right to the edge.
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It can be made with a variety of fillings; the most common ones are either a savoury meat filling or a sweet apple filling.
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In desperation, one apple grower used thousands of oil lamps to save his crop from freezing.
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It will be good for them and good for the apple grower.
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He became a successful apple grower, and went on to manufacture packaged apple products.
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However, it has been a mixed year for apple growers.
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During the flowering each season, apple growers often utilize pollinators to carry pollen.
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The apple harvest has also started early this year, with experts predicting a bumper crop.
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Last year's drought followed by incessant rain meant that the apple harvest was 30 per cent down, but this year looks set to make up for the disappointment.
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Perhaps the apple harvest too could have been airlifted.
Outlook India
It features products from the apple harvest, a craft fair, parade, special events and a harvest dinner.
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Natural apple seed extract helps to boost the skin's defences and seaweed smooths for visibly brighter skin.
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This study also concluded that apple seed oil could be used as an edible oil, with the oil cake being used to supplement animal feed.
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The apple collection was grafted on to rootstocks as new trees grown from apple seeds do not produce the same fruit as the parent tree.
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Analysis of amino acids in apple seeds concluded that they also contain a significant amount of sulfur.
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Other elements significantly found in apple seeds include phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, calcium and iron.
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Glowing with warmth, performed with freshness and sung with clarity and simplicity, it's as toothsome as any crisp apple strudel.
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My dessert of apple strudel was spectacularly good.
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A typical menu might include boiled beef and, of course, apple strudel.
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To balance this, the bread was rubbery, the apple strudel, horrific.
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This week she brings you a recipe for yummy apple strudel.
The Sun
Exact conditions in the rooms are set according to the apple variety.
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Pollenizers can also be supplied by putting drum bouquets of crab apples or a compatible apple variety in the orchard blocks.
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For example most crabapple varieties are good pollenizers for any apple variety that blooms at the same time, and are often used in apple orchards for the purpose.
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Thatchers was founded almost 120 years ago and now grows 458 apple varieties in its 500 acres of orchards.
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The orchard has around 2,000 trees and more than 40 apple varieties.
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Use 1 cup of bicarbonate soda, apple vinegar and fill the tub with hot water then leave it for ten minutes to soak.
The Sun
It's a bit like the best satay sauce, except thicker and richer; and the apple vinegar, with its hint of sweetness, completes a spectacular triumph.
Times, Sunday Times
Crunched down into a sweet-savoury praline under the meat, with a dash of apple vinegar, that filled each mouthful with smoke and salinity and foresty sweetness.
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Among the ingredients used are plum or pear syrup, dried pears, plums or cherries, apple vinegar and honey.
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If you don't fancy rhubarb for pudding, use chunks of cooking apple instead.
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For the sauce: 1 lime; 250g bramley cooking apple; 225g boiled beetroot.
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It's all freshly baked madeleines and burnt cooking apple, just don't over-chill.
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But the world's finest cooking apple only exists because of a series of happy accidents.
The Sun
The crumbs are layered in a gratin dish with thin slices of peeled cooking apple seasoned with cinnamon, sugar and butter.
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Glowing with warmth, performed with freshness and sung with clarity and simplicity, it's as toothsome as any crisp apple strudel.
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Or a bare slice of bread, or a crisp apple.
Christianity Today
My well-cooked scallops and crab starter came with crisp apple slices, while the halibut with cockles and beurre noisette to follow had a delicate taste.
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Torn out of the textbooks, made palpable by its evident humanity, it's the story of a national mood growing rotten, like a crisp apple that turns to mush.
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Crisp apples sprinkled with lemon juice, baked in a pie; great with food.
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Peel, core and dice the apple, and place in a small pan.
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Peel, core and dice the apples and pears.
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Leave it to crisp up while you peel, core and dice the apples.
The Sun
Top with fresh apple slices, a dusting of ground cinnamon and pomegranate seeds.
The Sun
I had the smoothie of the day, a mixture of berries with fresh apple and orange juice.
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Add some chopped dried apricots or chopped fresh apple.
The Sun
Cool, cut into the bars and serve with a sliced fresh apple per person.
The Sun
For example, to make 250ml fresh apple juice can take 8-12 apples, but nobody would eat that many, so why drink them?
Times, Sunday Times
Once browned, they simmer in stock flavoured with sage, bacon, onions, carrot and celery with the occasional surprise of sweet, juicy apple.
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Lots of juicy apple and citrus and a lovely dry, saline finish.
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Literally binloads of ham, bread, biscuits, bags of crisps, juicy apples, buffalo milk, up to 20 bags of satsumas at a time, sometimes mountains of chocolate, occasionally crates of eggs.
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We spied a bottle of 'tiger blood', whose ingredients were listed as 'beet, carrot, pear, celery and red apple'.
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She offered her a shiny red apple from her basket before running off cackling.
The Sun
Accessorise all the above with a suspiciously red apple.
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For every litre of good, cloudy apple juice in the pan, drop in half a cinnamon stick, together with four, thick, cored slices of red apple, stuck with six cloves.
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Another produces a bright red apple.
Globe and Mail
There was toast for getting wax out of velvet sofas, sour apple for polishing the grate and dried fish swim bladder for clear starching.
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It also comes in sour flavors, including sour watermelon, sour apple, and sour lemonade.
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We started with fresh crab with celeriac and apple, and an eau de nil sauce that tasted freshly of sour apples.
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Sweet, dessert apples are the most popular but sour apples have a dedicated following too.
The Sun
The village regionally famous for its pestil, a dried fruit pulp, rose hip, sour apples, and vegetables.
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So, too, are a few tiny cubes of peeled sweet apple.
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The minister probably had sweet apple tea served to his guests in small glass cups on silver filigree saucers.
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The apple lrtsy contains a sweet apple jam, and resembles a jam doughnut.
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And what a breakfast - best was the chilled fruit room, with tray upon tray of locally picked berries, juicy sweet apples and perfectly ripe peaches.
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Survivors said the gas at first smelled of sweet apples and reported that people died in a number of ways, suggesting a combination of toxic chemicals.
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Translations:
Chinese: 苹果
Japanese: リンゴ
- depend heavily on
- depending on sth
- depend largely on
- depend mainly on
- depend on the extent
- depend on the weather
- depend partly on
- depend primarily on
- depend solely on
- depend ultimately on
- depersonalize
- depict
- depict a battle
- depict a character
- depict an event
- depict a scenario
- depict a scene
- depict a theme
- depiction
- depiction of life
- depiction of nature
- depiction of violence
- depict the horror
- depict the reality
- depict the struggle