I can never keep those two apart, thanks for correcting me.

Me neither, had to look it up 😛

And people didn't​ agree when I said the names of those methods don't really say a lot...

Yeah, I am trying to come up with an analogy or some kind of point to the name, but...

I try to convince myself that

apply

is "closer" to the object then

also

, but so far no luck.

The only thing I can come up with:

apply

applies something to the object, i.e. something that somehow operates on the object.

also

"does something" using the object. But it's very shaky and only makes sense if you squint...