Word Frequency
appear (əˈpɪə
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Definitions
verb
- to come into sight or view
- copula; may take an infinitive to seem or look ⇒
the evidence appears to support you
- to be plain or clear, as after further evidence, etc ⇒
it appears you were correct after all
- to develop or come into being; occur ⇒
faults appeared during testing
- to become publicly available; be published ⇒
his biography appeared last month
- to perform or act ⇒
he has appeared in many London productions
- to be present in court before a magistrate or judge ⇒
he appeared on two charges of theft
Word Origin
C13: from Old French aparoir, from Latin appārēre to become visible, attend upon, from pārēre to appearSynonyms
View thesaurus entry = seem, be clear, be obvious, be evident, look (like or as if), be apparent, be plain, be manifest, be patent
= come into view, emerge, occur, attend, surface, come out, turn out, arise, turn up, be present, loom, show, issue, develop, arrive, show up, come to light, crop up, materialize, come forth, come into sight, show your face,
= come into being, come out, be published, be developed, be created, be invented, become available, come into existence
Translations for 'appear'
- British English: appear If something appears to be the way you describe it, it seems that way.The boy appeared to be asleep.əˈpɪə VERB
- Arabic: يَظْهَرُ
- Brazilian Portuguese: parecer
- Chinese: 看来
- Croatian: činiti se
- Czech: jevit se --
- Danish: forekomme
- Dutch: lijken
- European Spanish: parecer
- Finnish: ilmestyä
- French: paraître
- German: scheinen
- Greek: εμφανίζομαι
- Italian: sembrare
- Japanese: 現れる
- Korean: 나타나다
- Norwegian: synes å være / virke som
- Polish: pojawić się pojawiać się
- Portuguese: parecer
- Romanian: a părea
- Russian: казаться
- Spanish: aparecer
- Swedish: uppträda
- Thai: ดูเหมือนว่า
- Turkish: görünmek
- Ukrainian: з'являтися з'явитися
- Vietnamese: trông có vẻ
Example Sentences Including 'appear'
And only then did I see the barrel of the Browning appear through the planking.A DARKENING STAIN (2002)
I didn't appear to be getting to some of the places that I thought we should have been able to contact.FATAL STORM (2001)
I kept looking over towards the house, willing them to appear.BETTER THAN THIS (2002)
In addition, asking prices appear to have fallen sharply over recent weeks.Country Life (2004)
It took less than a minute for a young woman to appear who, frankly, wasn't my idea of a civil servant.KICK BACK (2002)
Marco Guarino, his solicitor, told the sheriff he could offer the court no reason why his client had failed to appear.Glasgow Herald (2001)
Mr Dane Fish was remanded in custody in Cloverhill Prison until Friday when he will appear again in the same court.Irish Times (2002)
The trial had been adjourned on Thursday, when Mr Jackson had failed to appear.Glasgow Herald (2001)
What they appear to show is there are two education systems, not one.Irish Times (2002)
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