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appear
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)
- (intransitive) To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible.
- And God […] said, Let […] the dry land appear.
- (intransitive) To come before the public.
- (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.
- (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.
- (intransitive, copulative) To seem; to have a certain semblance; to look.
- They disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast.
- (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
appear From the web:
- what appears on a loan estimate
- what appears on a balance sheet
- what appears on the walls of the library at unam
- what appears in telophase
- what appears to be the mechanism for genomic imprinting
- what appears as a streak in the sky
- what appears on an income statement
- what appears white on a fingerprint
displays
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: d?spl?z?, IPA(key): /d?s?ple?z/
- Rhymes: -e?z
- Hyphenation: dis?plays
Noun
displays
- plural of display
Verb
displays
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of display
Dutch
Pronunciation
Noun
displays
- Plural form of display
Spanish
Noun
displays m pl
- plural of display
displays From the web:
- what displays the path in which the process flows
- what displays spatial information
- what displays the contents of a selected cell
- what displays the name of the cell that is selected
- what displays work with mac mini
- what displays the columns dialog box
- what displays the active cell address
- what displays of colored light
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