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appear

verb
/əˈpɪə/UK/əˈpɪɹ/US/əˈpiːɹ/

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”).

  1. derived from *peh₂s-✻
  2. derived from appāreō
  3. derived from aparoir
  4. inherited from apperen

Definitions

  1. To come or be in sight

    To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible.

    • 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.

  2. To come before the public.

    • A great writer appeared at that time.

  3. To stand in presence of some authority, tribunal, or superior person, to answer a charge,…

    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.
    • One ruffian escaped because no prosecutor dared to appear.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. To become visible to the apprehension of the mind

      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.
      • Of their vain contest appeared no end.

    2. To seem

      To seem; to have a certain semblance; to look.

      • 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.

    3. To bring into view

      • [Angelo] is yet a devil / His filth within being cast, he would appear / A pond as deep as hell.

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Derived

appearable, appearency, appearingly, appear in the Gazette, coappear, misappear, nonappearin, reappear, speak of the devil and he shall appear

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for appear. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA