noun

• A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus.
  "None have their eies all of one colour: for the ball or apple in the middeſt is ordinarily of another colour than the vvhite about it."
• A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus.
• A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus.
• A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus.

verb

• (transitive) To make (something) appear like an apple (noun sense 1.1).
  "To choose responsibly, our active citizen must know what is being offered, much of this knowledge being filtered through appearance: things must look what they are supposed to be. Apples must look like applies. One might say they have to be appled-up; varieties are selected for marketing which have the most apple-like qualities."
• (intransitive)
  "He glanced at me, his cheeks appled in the impish grin I was learning to recognise as the clever under-side of his broad and gentle smile."
• (intransitive)
• (intransitive)
  "As for Scolymus [possibly type of artichoke?], it differeth from the reſt of theſe Thiſtles herein, That the root, if it be ſodden, it is good to be eaten: beſides, it hath a ſtraunge nature, for all the ſort of them during the Summer throughout, never reſt and give over, but either they floure, or they apple, or els be readie to bring foorth fruit: […]"

name

• (with the) Nickname for New York City: a major city in New York, United States; more commonly in the form the Big Apple.
• (rare, countable) A female given name from English.
• (countable) A surname.