Appear
[ə'pɪə] or [ə'pɪr]
Definition
(verb.) come into sight or view; 'He suddenly appeared at the wedding'; 'A new star appeared on the horizon'.
(verb.) come into being or existence, or appear on the scene; 'Then the computer came along and changed our lives'; 'Homo sapiens appeared millions of years ago'.
(verb.) be issued or published; 'Did your latest book appear yet?'; 'The new Woody Allen film hasn't come out yet'.
(verb.) appear as a character on stage or appear in a play, etc.; 'Gielgud appears briefly in this movie'; 'She appeared in `Hamlet' on the London stage'.
(verb.) seem to be true, probable, or apparent; 'It seems that he is very gifted'; 'It appears that the weather in California is very bad'.
(verb.) present oneself formally, as before a (judicial) authority; 'He had to appear in court last month'; 'She appeared on several charges of theft'.
Checker: Raffles--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible.
(v. i.) To come before the public; as, a great writer appeared at that time.
(v. i.) To stand in presence of some authority, tribunal, or superior person, to answer a charge, plead a cause, or the like; to present one's self as a party or advocate before a court, or as a person to be tried.
(v. i.) To become visible to the apprehension of the mind; to be known as a subject of observation or comprehension, or as a thing proved; to be obvious or manifest.
(v. i.) To seem; to have a certain semblance; to look.
(n.) Appearance.
Editor: Vlad
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. [1]. Emerge, be in sight, come in sight, be visible, come into view, HEAVE IN SIGHT, open to the view, present itself, crop out, show itself, turn up, come upon the stage, see the light.[2]. Open, dawn, break.[3]. Arise, occur, offer.[4]. Stand in judgment, be present to answer.[5]. Be manifest, be obvious, be open, be known.[6]. Seem, look, show, wear the appearance, present the appearance, have the appearance, strike one as being.
Checker: Rupert
Definition
v.i. to become visible: to present one's self formally before an authority or tribunal hence to act as the representative or counsel for another: to be manifest: to be in one's opinion to seem: to come into view to come before the public to be published (of a book): to seem though not real.—ns. Appear′ance the act of appearing e.g. in court to prosecute or answer a charge: the publication of a book: the effect of appearing conspicuously show parade: the condition of that which appears form aspect: outward look or show: a natural phenomenon: an apparition; Appear′er one that appears: one who puts in an appearance in court.—It appears (impers.).—To all appearance so far as appears to any one; To keep up appearances to keep up an outward show with intent to conceal the absence of the inward reality; To put in an appearance to appear in person.
Typist: Melba
Examples
- If I _am_ missed, it will appear. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- And still the unjust must appear just; that is 'the homage which vice pays to virtue. Plato. The Republic.
- Did not the Communist Manifesto appear many years before Das Kapital? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- She did not affect modesty, nor appear in the least offended at my intrusion. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Such taxes appear to me to be revolutionary. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- A people called the Cimmerians appear in the districts of Lake Urumiya and Van, and shortly after Aryans have spread from Armenia to Elam. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Miss Flite is much better and may appear in court (as her mind is set upon it) to-morrow. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- His manner appeared to have altered strangely in the interval since I had last seen him. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- To my inexperience we at first appeared on the eve of a civil war; each party was violent, acrimonious, and unyielding. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- How she had to work and thrum at these duets and sonatas in the Street, before they appeared in public in the Square! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Without it the engine would have been too clumsy and slow for practical use, but with it the greatest possibilities of use appeared. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Canby appeared before Mobile on the 27th of March. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- She was sitting near the window, with her head reclined on her hand, and appeared more than usually pensive. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- They appeared to be always excited about canvassing and electing. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Human nature appears to be just the same, all over the world. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Thus it appears, that the principle, which opposes our passion, cannot be the same with reason, and is only called so in an improper sense. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- And what is more,' exclaimed Young John, surveying him in a doleful maze, 'he appears to mean it! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The child with a white blouse appears first red, then blue, then green, according as his powders burn red, blue, or green. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- His silence appears to me to cut both ways. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The box into which the harlequin takes refuge, and which appears to be empty when Pierrot or Cassandra lifts the curtain that shields its entrance, is also a sort of magic cabinet. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The freedom of choice which this allows him, is therefore much greater, and the difficulty of his task much more diminished, than at first appears. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Coach is ready, Sir,' said Sam, appearing at the door. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Eustacia might possibly decline to use her pen--it was rather her way to work silently--and surprise him by appearing at his door. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Well, no, said Sir James; I feel a delicacy in appearing to dictate. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- There's five or six coming, but the well is deep, and another might be useful, if you don't mind appearing in that shape. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Indubitably the broad lines of our present world, the main ideas, the chief oppositions, were appearing in those days. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Barsoomian Table of Time as here given is but a part of the full table appearing in Captain Carter's notes. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Mr Venus knowingly cocked his shock of hair, as rather thinking Mr Wegg had remembered himself, in respect of appearing without any disguise. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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