Sandman
You apply the red and black clamps to the battery. You don't "apply" the USB charger from Apple to the battery, you connect it to a Lightning port.

You're welcome.

Tony Cooper
Apply? The word most of us would use would be "connect". You "connect" the red and black clamps to the automobile battery posts, and you connect the Apple cable to the iPhone's charging port. Same thing. Others would use "attach" in both cases.

"Apply", though? Who uses that for connecting or attaching a battery cable? Only someone trying to weasel out of being caught out making another blunder.

nospam
nothing but word games.

Tony Cooper
This is a text format in which words are used. You scream like a baby with a loaded diaper when someone uses what you consider to be the wrong word for a device. Yet, when someone uses the wrong word to describe that act of attaching something to a device, you claim it's word games.

nospam
you're describing yourself. you nitpick every word, even citing dictionary definitions.

attach, apply, connect, plug in or whatever else makes no difference and you know it. you're just arguing just to argue, as usual.

it's obvious what is meant when he said apply the red and black clamps to the battery.

the problem is that entirely misses the point. you *still* don't understand the difference between a charger and a power supply, and there is definitely a difference. all you can do is argue over word usage.

Eric Stevens
But isn't this exactly what you are doing? Arguing about the difference between a charger and a power supply?