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appear

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verb (used without object)

to come into sight; become visible: A man suddenly appeared in the doorway.

to have the appearance of being; seem; look: to appear wise.

to be obvious or easily perceived; be clear or made clear by evidence: It appears to me that you are right.

to come or be placed before the public; be published: Her biography appeared last year.

to perform publicly, as in a play, dance, etc.: He appeared as the king in the play.

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to attend or be present, especially to arrive late or stay but a short time: He appeared at the party but left quickly.

to come into being; be created, invented, or developed: Speech appears in the child's first or second year.

Law. to come formally, especially as a party or counsel, to a proceeding before a tribunal, authority, etc.

COLLAPSE

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English ap(p)eren < Anglo-French, Old French aper-, tonic stem of apare(i)r, apparoir < Latin appārēre be seen, appear, equivalent to ap- ap¹ + pārēre be visible

Related forms

re·ap·pear, verb (used without object)

well-ap·pear·ing, adjective

Synonyms
1. emerge, arise. 2. See seem.

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Example Sentences

The survey texts that accompany the images may appear shockingly clinical.

Singapore's efforts to recruit more foreign students appear to be paying off.

Such differences certainly exist, but drawing inferences from them is not as easy as it may appear.

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The survey texts that accompany the images may appear shockingly clinical.

Singapore's efforts to recruit more foreign students appear to be paying off.

Such differences certainly exist, but drawing inferences from them is not as easy as it may appear.

Yet these microbes appear to be related to present-day organisms.

Fireflies appear to light up for a variety of reasons.

But it isn't likely to appear anytime soon in a dictionary.

Gently transfer quesadillas to grill and cook until grill marks appear.

Despite being tens of millions of years old, some beetle fossils appear almost as they did in life.

These conditions may appear alone or in any combination.

The online posting will appear first among job search results and be highlighted to ensure it stands out from other job ads.

They are designed to appear complex and impenetrable.

Warming ocean temperatures appear to be fueling stronger, more intense hurricanes around the world, a new study suggests.

Birth control pills appear to remodel brain structure.

The origins of great inventions are generally more complicated than they appear.

New varieties and hybrids appear every year, but distribution is spotty in local nurseries.

Here are some commonly used lines and the number of scientific papers they appear in.

Threats against climate scientists appear to intensify if they speak up in the nation's policy debate.

Yet although the best things in life appear to be free, that does not mean they are without financial value.

What the scientists found is that the bacteria appear to have kept up their metabolism.

It appear to me that the original article is referencing a single person ie.

Spiteful motivations and sophisticated social learning skills, however, appear uniquely human.

Pale lilac to white flowers appear in spikelike clusters barely taller than the leaves.

There does not appear to be any spam filtering on the iPad.

Unfortunately, they appear to be the norm in the for-profit sector.

But the problems now appear to be more than personal.

In short, carotenoids appear to compensate for the effect of testosterone by keeping the immune system strong.

Before wrinkles appear on this hand, compare the traction on different smooth surfaces.

Sometimes, usually within the past hundred or so generations, variations of certain genes appear.

Summer flowers appear in red-and-go more add to my plant list.

The human-size figures appear to be wearing special white protective clothing and marching, heads down, across the landscape.

Four of the six also replied that in their own published work they expect notes and bibliographies to appear in a consistent form.

For such companies, the longer-term prospects appear rosy.

These chimpanzees appear to have taken over a library.

Now researchers have found that one purpose of the setting is to make the bird appear bigger.

The animals appear to have a high alcohol tolerance.

Pink to deep red flowers may appear from spring to summer but are only rarely seen.

The man and woman appear oblivious of the chaos swirling around them.

Herzog, concluded that exposure to racial and ethnic diversity does not appear to aid the cognitive growth of college freshmen.

In particular, the dumbness would appear to be aggravated by stress.

Captions that appear are authored by the submitter of the photograph.

In the left image, the gray bars actually appear to be part of the black bars above and below.

Two of them are thin, carbonized patches of fossilized skin that appear to have come from sauropod dinosaurs.

Round clusters of small white flowers appear all along ba more add to my plant list.

Rather than processing visual information, they appear to handle language.

Eastern time will appear online the next business day.

The tribunal has yet to determine whether foreign lawyers may even appear to plead before it.

The researchers had expected to find that, the farther away clusters are, the slower they appear to be moving.

Molecules called predictive autoantibodies appear in the blood years before people show symptoms of various disorders.

Caterpillars appear to walk in a wavelike motion that starts with their back legs and moves forward.

Lavender-blue, five-petaled, pinwheel-shaped flowers appear in leaf joints in early spring.

Managers have yet to say whether an online-only version might subsequently appear.

The puzzle is why investors appear so unfazed by prospects for other firms.

Stars in the heavens may also appear to be different colors because their temperatures are not all the same.

At first glance, a patient in a persistent vegetative state may appear only to be resting, eyes open.

They appear to be better integrated with their surroundings.

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After months of writing and rewriting, it was both a relief and thrilling to hear the work would appear in print.

The larger capacity of outer shells means that the rows get longer, and so more columns appear.

The meteors' distinctive tails can appear anywhere in the sky.

Nobody is to say which one appear after digging the wells.

Some of this year's and past years' winning entries appear in these pages.

If only you could snap your fingers and a garden would appear.

Various measures appear to encourage having more babies, from flexible working hours to removing the stigma from illegitimacy.

Both western and introduced eastern populations appear to be spreading.

Sunspots have long been known to appear and disappear from the sun's surface.

Some of those pictured here appear to be hybrids, however.

Creamy yellow flowers appear in spring, then intermittently throu more add to my plant list.

Countries that appear to have lost control of their finances could see their exchange rates suffer.

Although it may appear causal, hippos often yawn in order to impose a visual threat and warning to potential enemies or attackers.

The pits, which appear to untrained eyes as ponds or depressions in the ground, are a few yards to hundreds of yards wide.

Bright red brushes appear from late spring into summer, scattered bloom rest of year.

Porphyria can also cause retraction of the gums, making a person's teeth appear longer than normal.

Florida is the only eastern state where it does not appear.

Usually when dinosaurs appear in comic books or on screen they are there to menace the human protagonists of the story.

Mauve pink flowers with slender, drooping rays appear in late summer to fal more add to my plant list.

But many of the student leaders appear articulate and reasonable.

The disease may be carried by the grays, who themselves appear to be immune to it.

When new shoots appear in spring, remove all but the two or three strongest and apply a complete fertilizer.

In fact, webcams that monitor a person's heart rate are soon to appear.

Thin stems topped with violet blooms appear from spring into fall.

From the arrangement of a system of internal stone supports, for example, they appear to have had raised floors.

Long clusters of light yellow, fluffy flowers appear in late fall or winter.

Yet there is suspicion that the changes will be less effective than they appear.

Brush outsides of pitas with a little oil and cook, turning once, until grill marks appear.

Online protests sometimes appear to influence party policy.

Narrow blue-green leaves appear after bloom add to my plant list.

They appear as dark patches in the photosphere-the surface layer of the sun-that come and go.

Round clusters of small white flowers appear all along bare branches in early spring.

And television-watching is a more sociable activity than it may appear.

Disturbing the roots by cultivating may cause suckers to appear.

Yet frequent crackdowns and the occasional toppling of sleazy officials appear to have little impact.

Bloom reaches its peak in summer, but in mildest-winter regions flowers may appear from spring through fall, and even into winter.

Flowers appear on leafless branches in winter or spring and may last for more than a month if not hit by frost.

Older trees tend to produce blooms on all branches and drop all their leaves before flowers appear.

Rosettes of strapshaped basal leaves appear in early spring, fade away after bloom in summer.

Spot-treat any new shoots with glyphosate as they appear.

Blooms mainly appear from early to midsummer, but some varieties repeat in late summer or fall.

Small pink flowers appear in spring, followed by little red fruits that attract birds.

More people are cheating, new studies find, and younger women appear to be catching up with men.

The full meaning of such exchanges remains unclear, but they appear to reinforce social bonding.

The health, officers are taking active stops to be able to cope with the cholera should it appear here.

Second, on the face of things, mitochondrial diseases appear far rarer than autism.

The moon will therefore appear to change from brilliant silver to between bright orange and blood red during a lunar eclipse.

Heart disease may appear to be a recent problem, brought on by modern living, but it's been plaguing humanity since ancient times.

The animated extraterrestrials will appear in the broadcast.

The chemicals appear to confuse the endocrine systems of.

Denoting both direction and magnitude, vectors appear throughout the world of science and engineering.

The flames, reaching up from braziers that appear to float on the water, breathe streamers of sparks into the air.

White to lilac flowers appear in late spring to early.

Summary totals for higher-education systems appear at the end of the list.

Meet some of the various species of snake that appear in the upcoming thriller, including species actually used during filming.

Minds of minimally conscious patients appear to retain the ability to process language.

Wordle is an application that takes text from any source and enlarges words that appear more frequently.

After years of surprising scientists with their cleverness and smarts, some octopuses appear to also use tools.

The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you learned this afternoon fiona.

The chances that the trials will win international recognition appear slim.

As students read, challenge them to watch for their words and check off those that appear in the article.

Researchers find blood markers of incurable neurological disorder years before symptoms appear.

Conversely, words that are smaller appear less frequently.

New car models for the millennium will soon appear in showrooms.

Additions to and changes in the list since then appear in bold italics.

Now, however, new developments mean that optical technologies are starting to appear inside computers.

Two geomagnetic phenomena of the giant planet appear to pulsate in unison.

In the pharmaceutical industry, universities appear to have found a partner willing and able to buy big chunks of their research.

Nine opposition candidates were allowed to register and even appear on state television.

Open, or galactic, clusters appear as hundreds of points of.

The impacts of global warming have begun to appear across the globe, from shrinking glaciers to rising seas.

Advertising units that are split run appear in main run circulation only, not in single copy sales.

Inflorescences appear on a separate stalk in spring or early summer.

Similar tubular shaped clouds called roll clouds appear in various places around the globe.

Percentage plans appear to be succeeding as a public-relations strategy.

Most of the toxic wastes have been cleared and levels of carcinogens appear to have returned to normal.

Steller's sea eagles do not occur in large numbers, but their populations appear to be stable.

Internet-based financial markets appear to forecast elections better than polls do.

Spikes of small white flowers appear in late spring or early summerTo add extra sparkle to heavily shaded spots.

Success remains elusive, however, and no newfangled lie-detection machines appear ready for prime time.

Meteor showers are named after the constellations they appear to be coming from.

Look for clams with siphons that appear fresh, plump and firm.

Valued for bright fall foliage and nodding clusters of interesting yellow to red blooms that typically appear in winter.

First-time buyers appear to be responsible for much of the rush.

Current reality does appear to perch humans atop a planetary food chain.

Our website offers games and activities that support and extend topics that appear in the magazine.

It also serves pop-up ads so they appear to be coming from websites that don't actually serve the ads.

Often we'll find candidates who appear grossly underqualified or overqualified.

The first is that the patterns, if ill chosen, can legitimately appear in uninfected files.

Dunelike and immense, they appear to be nature's handiwork.

White cyclamen appear to flutter above silvery dusty-miller foliage and eucalyptus pods.

If any of the singletons appear in a tic-tac-toe then the ticket is almost certainly a winner:.

Butterfly wing scales appear different colors because of the way their structures reflect light.

The fan-shaped leaves, backlit by the sun, appear to glow.

After ravens see a friend get a beat down, they approach the victim and appear to console it, according to new research.

The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you learned this afternoon rodentmind.

In addition, the corrections appear to have been made soon after the original was completed.

During this critical stage, the first signs of ridges begin to appear on the skin of the volar pads.

Lees said, the campaigns appear to be making sufficient progress toward meeting their goals.

Greece, which is also fond of striking, does not appear on this chart as its numbers are not comparable.

To the drive, the crystalline areas appear bright and the amorphous areas appear dark.

New asteroids appear in flashes of white, to make them easy to pick out.

Rainbows appear when light originating from the sun is refracted and reflected by small water droplets suspended in the air.

The majority of the injuries appear to have been caused by blunt instruments, such as antlers and clubs.

Mildly elevated radioactivity has been detected at some sites but not at levels that appear dangerous.

Lavender blue flowers appear in leaf joints on upper part of stems add to my plant list.

While both manta species roam all the oceans, they appear to have a different lifestyle.

Purple flower clusters appear from fall to spring add to my plant list.

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Collins

World English Dictionary

appear (əˈpɪə)

—vb
1.	to come into sight or view
2.	(copula; may take an infinitive) to seem or look: the evidence appears to support you
3.	to be plain or clear, as after further evidence, etc: it appears you were correct after all
4.	to develop or come into being; occur: faults appeared during testing
5.	to become publicly available; be published: his biography appeared last month
6.	to perform or act: he has appeared in many London productions
7.	to be present in court before a magistrate or judge: he appeared on two charges of theft

[C13: from Old French aparoir, from Latin appārēre to become visible, attend upon, from pārēre to appear]

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Word Origin & History

appear

mid-13c., from O.Fr. aparoir (12c.) "appear, come to light, come forth," from L. apparere "to appear," from ad- "to" + perere "to come forth, be visible."

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"If prophets or those who divine by dreams appear among you and promise you omens or portents, and the omens or the portents declared by them take place, and they say, "Let us follow other gods" (whom you have not known) "and let us serve them," you must not heed the words of those prophets or those who divine by dreams; for the LORD your God is testing you, to know whether you indeed love the LORD your God with all your heart and soul."

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