appear
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English apperen, aperen, borrowed from Old French aparoir (French apparoir), from Latin appāreō (“to appear”), from ad (“to”) + pāreō (“to come forth, to become visible”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-s- (“watch, see”), s-present of *peh₂- (“protect”).
Inflected forms:
form: appears
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: appearing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: appeared
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: appeared
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: appear
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: appear
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: appeared
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: appear
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: appearest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: appeared
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: appearedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: appears
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: appeareth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: appeared
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: appear
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: appeared
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: appear
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: appeared
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: appear
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: appearing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: appeared
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: appeare
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: appeer
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: appeere
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: And God[…]said, Let[…]the dry land appear.
There were also particles no one had predicted that just appeared. Five of them […, i]n order of increasing modernity, […] are the neutrino, the pi meson, the antiproton, the quark and the Higgs boson.
gloss: To come before the public.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: A great writer appeared at that time.
Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: We must all appear before the judgment seat.
One ruffian escaped because no prosecutor dared to appear.
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: It doth not yet appear what we shall be.
Of their vain contest appeared no end.
‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police[…]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?
Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that acute exposure to solvent vapors at concentrations below those associated with long-term effects appears to increase the risk of a fatal automobile accident. Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene,[…].
gloss: To seem; to have a certain semblance; to look.
pos: verb
tags: copulative
intransitive
examples: He appeared quite happy with the result.
They disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast.
Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected.
gloss: To bring into view
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: [Angelo] is yet a devil / His filth within being cast, he would appear / A pond as deep as hell.
Synonyms: appear
come forth
forthcome
heave in sight
heave in view
heave into sight
heave into view
materialize
see the light of day
Antonyms: disappear
vanish
Related words: appearance
apparent
appearer
Derived words: appearable
appearency
appearingly
appear in the Gazette
coappear
misappear
nonappearin
reappear
speak of the devil and he shall appear
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