apply and funcall are alternative ways to call a function whose name is computed; their arguments are supplied in different ways, so that explicit construction of Lisp code is not required, as it is for eval.

(apply fn list-of-args) applies the function fn to the arguments in the list list-of-args. Both arguments of apply are first evaluated.

(setq myfun #'+)

(apply myfun '(2 3))  =  5

(funcall fn arg₁ ... arg_n ) calls the function fn with the arguments arg₁ ... arg_n . All arguments of funcall are evaluated.

(funcall (get (get object 'shape)
              'drawing-program)
         (get object 'position)
         (get object 'size))

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