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appear
English
Etymology
From Middle English apperen, aperen, borrowed from Old French aparoir (French apparoir, apparaître), from Latin app?re? (“I appear”), from ad (“to”) + p?re? (“I come forth, I become visible”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??p??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??pi?/, [??p?i?]
- (Scotland) IPA(key): /??pi??/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
Verb
appear (third-person singular simple present appears, present participle appearing, simple past and past participle appeared)
- (intransitive) To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible.
- And God […] said, Let […] the dry land appear.
- (intransitive) To come before the public.
- (intransitive) To stand in presence of some authority, tribunal, or superior person, to answer a charge, plead a cause, etc.; to present oneself as a party or advocate before a court, or as a person to be tried.
- We must all appear before the judgment seat.
- (intransitive) 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.
- It doth not yet appear what we shall be.
- (intransitive, copulative) To seem; to have a certain semblance; to look.
- They disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast.
- (transitive) To bring into view.
- [Angelo] is yet a devil / His filth within being cast, he would appear / A pond as deep as hell.
Usage notes
- Senses 4, 5. This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs
- Particularly senses 4,5, and 6, this is a stative verb that rarely takes the continuous inflection. See Category:English stative verbs
Synonyms
- (to become visible): emerge; see also Thesaurus:appear
- (seem): look
Antonyms
- (to become visible): disappear, vanish
Related terms
- appearance
- apparent
Translations
appear From the web:
- what appears on a loan estimate
- what appears on a balance sheet
- what appears on the walls of the library at unam
- what appears in telophase
- what appears to be the mechanism for genomic imprinting
- what appears as a streak in the sky
- what appears on an income statement
- what appears white on a fingerprint
appearer
English
Etymology
From appear +? -er.
Noun
appearer (plural appearers)
- (rare) Someone who or something which appears.
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.23:
- That owls and ravens are ominous appearers, and presignifying unlucky events, as Christians yet conceit, was also an augurial conception.
- One who makes an appearance in court.
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.23:
Anagrams
- præpare, rape-rape, rapparee, reappear
appearer From the web:
- what appeared in utah
- what appeared on earth first
- what appeared in the cenozoic era
- what appeared to be a single damaged ship
- what appeared in every episode of seinfeld
- what appeared to joseph in a dream
- what appeared first in the fossil record
- what appeared as the clock struck midnight
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