different between appear vs develop

English

Etymology

From Middle English apperen, aperen, borrowed from Old French aparoir (French apparoir, apparaître), from Latin app?re? (“I appear”), from ad (“to”) + p?re? (“I come forth, I become visible”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??p??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??pi?/, [??p?i?]
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /??pi??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Verb

appear (third-person singular simple present appears, present participle appearing, simple past and past participle appeared)

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

   • And God […] said, Let […] the dry land appear.
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.

   • We must all appear before the judgment seat.
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.

   • It doth not yet appear what we shall be.
5. (intransitive, copulative) To seem; to have a certain semblance; to look.

   • They disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast.
6. (transitive) To bring into view.

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

Usage notes

• Senses 4, 5. This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs
• Particularly senses 4,5, and 6, this is a stative verb that rarely takes the continuous inflection. See Category:English stative verbs

Synonyms

• (to become visible): emerge; see also Thesaurus:appear
• (seem): look

Antonyms

• (to become visible): disappear, vanish

Related terms

• appearance
• apparent

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• develope (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from French développer, from Middle French desveloper, from Old French desveloper, from des- + voloper, veloper, vloper (“to wrap, wrap up”) (compare Italian -viluppare, Old Italian alternative form goluppare (“to wrap”)) from Vulgar Latin *vlopp?, *wlopp? (“to wrap”) ultimately from Proto-Germanic *wrappan?, *wlappan? (“to wrap, roll up, turn, wind”), from Proto-Indo-European *werb- (“to turn, bend”) [1]. Akin to Middle English wlappen (“to wrap, fold”) (Modern English lap (“to wrap, involve, fold”)), Middle English wrappen (“to wrap”), Middle Dutch lappen (“to wrap up, embrace”), dialectal Danish vravle (“to wind, twist”), Middle Low German wrempen (“to wrinkle, scrunch, distort”), Old English wearp (“warp”). The word acquired its modern meaning from the 17th-century belief that an egg contains the animal in miniature and matures by growing larger and shedding its envelopes.

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??v?l.?p/
• (Indian English) IPA^(key): /?d?v.l?p/, /d??v?.l?p/
• Rhymes: -?l?p

Verb

develop (third-person singular simple present develops, present participle developing, simple past and past participle developed or (archaic, rare) developt)

1. (intransitive) To change with a specific direction, progress.

2. (transitive, intransitive) To progress through a sequence of stages.
   • 1868-1869, Robert Owen, Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of Vertebrates

     All insects […] acquire the jointed legs before the wings are fully developed.

3. (transitive) To advance; to further; to promote the growth of.
   • 1881, Benjamin Jowett, Thucydides

     We must develop our own resources to the utmost.

4. (transitive) To create.

5. (transitive) To bring out images latent in photographic film.

6. (transitive) To acquire something usually over a period of time.

7. (chess, transitive) To place one's pieces actively.

8. (snooker, pool) To cause a ball to become more open and available to be played on later. Usually by moving it away from the cushion, or by opening a pack.
9. (mathematics) To change the form of (an algebraic expression, etc.) by executing certain indicated operations without changing the value.

Usage notes

• Objects: plan, software, program, product, story, idea.

Derived terms

• co-develop, codevelop

Related terms

• developing
• development

Translations