apple
♦ ap|ple /'æpəl/ (apples)
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An apple is a round fruit with smooth green, yellow, or red skin and firm white flesh.
I want an apple.
...his ongoing search for the finest varieties of apple.
...a large garden with apple trees in it.
see also Adam's apple, Big Apple,
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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.Adam's ap|ple /'ædəmz 'æpəl/ (Adam's apples)
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Your Adam's apple is the lump that sticks out of the front of your neck below your throat.ap|ple pie (apple pies)
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An apple pie is a kind of pie made with apples.
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If a room or a desk is in apple pie order, it is neat and tidy, and everything is where it should be.
They found everything in apple-pie order.
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If you say that something is as American as apple pie, you mean that it is typically American.
Jeans are as American as apple pie.ap|ple sauce
also applesauce
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Apple sauce is a type of sauce made from puréed cooked apples.crab ap|ple (crab apples)
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A crab apple is a tree like an apple tree that produces small sour fruit.eat|ing ap|ple (eating apples)
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An eating apple is an ordinary apple that is usually eaten raw rather than cooked.
≠ cooking applerot|ten ap|ple (rotten apples)
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You can use rotten apple to talk about a person who is dishonest and therefore causes a lot of problems for the group or organization they belong to.
Police corruption is not just a few rotten apples.
1 [N-VAR]
An apple is a round fruit with smooth green, yellow, or red skin and firm white flesh.
I want an apple.
...his ongoing search for the finest varieties of apple.
...a large garden with apple trees in it.
see also Adam's apple, Big Apple,
2 [PHRASE] usu v-link PHR
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.Adam's ap|ple /'ædəmz 'æpəl/ (Adam's apples)
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Your Adam's apple is the lump that sticks out of the front of your neck below your throat.ap|ple pie (apple pies)
1 [N-COUNT]
An apple pie is a kind of pie made with apples.
2 [PHRASE] v-link PHR
If a room or a desk is in apple pie order, it is neat and tidy, and everything is where it should be.
They found everything in apple-pie order.
3 [PHRASE] v-link PHR
If you say that something is as American as apple pie, you mean that it is typically American.
Jeans are as American as apple pie.ap|ple sauce
also applesauce
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Apple sauce is a type of sauce made from puréed cooked apples.crab ap|ple (crab apples)
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A crab apple is a tree like an apple tree that produces small sour fruit.eat|ing ap|ple (eating apples)
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An eating apple is an ordinary apple that is usually eaten raw rather than cooked.
≠ cooking applerot|ten ap|ple (rotten apples)
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You can use rotten apple to talk about a person who is dishonest and therefore causes a lot of problems for the group or organization they belong to.
Police corruption is not just a few rotten apples.