Appear

/əˈpɪə/ · verb

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. (intransitive) To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible.
2. (intransitive) To come before the public.
3. (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.
4. (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.
5. (intransitive, copulative) To seem; to have a certain semblance; to look.
6. (transitive) To bring into view

Example Sentences

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.

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.

We must all appear before the judgment seat.

One ruffian escaped because no prosecutor dared to appear.

It doth not yet appear what we shall be.

Of their vain contest appeared no end.

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