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appearance

English

Alternative forms

  • appearaunce (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French apparence, from Latin apparentia, from appareo.Displaced native Middle English wlite (appearance).

Morphologically appear +? -ance.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??p????ns/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /??p???ns/
  • Hyphenation: ap?pear?ance

Noun

appearance (countable and uncountable, plural appearances)

  1. The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye.
  2. A thing seen; a phenomenon; an apparition.
  3. The way something looks; personal presence
    Synonyms: aspect, mien
  4. Apparent likeness; the way which something or someone appears to others.
    • 1769, The King James Bible, Numbers ix. 15
      And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle, namely, the tent of the testimony: and at even there was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until the morning.
    • 1769, The King James Bible John vii. 24
      Judge not according to the appearance.
  5. (philosophy, theology) That which is not substance, essence, hypostasis; the outward reality as opposed to the underlying reality
  6. The act of appearing in a particular place, or in society, a company, or any proceedings; a coming before the public in a particular character.
    • 1671, John Milton, Paradise Regained
      Will he now retire, After appearance, and again prolong Our expectation?
  7. (law) An instance of someone coming into a court of law to be part of a trial, either in person or represented by an attorney or such like; a court appearance
  8. (medicine) Chiefly used by nurses: the act of defecation by a patient.

Synonyms

  • (act of coming into sight): arrival, manifestation,
  • (a thing seen): spectacle, apparition, phenomenon, presence
  • (aspect of a person): aspect, air, figure, look, manner, mien
  • (outward show): semblance, show, pretense, façade or facade
  • (act of appearing in public): debut

Antonyms

  • non-appearance, nonappearance

Derived terms

Related terms

  • appear
  • apparent

Translations

References

  • appearance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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exhibit

English

Etymology

From Latin exhibitus, perfect passive participle of exhibe? (I hold forth, present, show, display), from ex (out of, from) + habe? (I have, hold); see habit.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???z?b?t/, /??-/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /???z?b?t/, /??-/
  • Rhymes: -?b?t
  • Hyphenation: ex?hib?it

Verb

exhibit (third-person singular simple present exhibits, present participle exhibiting, simple past and past participle exhibited)

  1. (transitive) To display or show (something) for others to see, especially at an exhibition or contest.
  2. (transitive) To demonstrate.
  3. (transitive, law) To submit (a physical object) to a court as evidence.
  4. (intransitive) To put on a public display.
  5. (medicine) To administer as a remedy.

Synonyms

  • (display or show (something) for others to see): display, show, show off
  • (demonstrate): demonstrate, show
  • (present for inspection):

Related terms

  • exhibition
  • exhibitionist
  • exhibitor
  • Exhibit A
  • inhibit
  • prohibit

Translations

Noun

exhibit (plural exhibits)

  1. An instance of exhibiting.
  2. That which is exhibited.
  3. A public showing; an exhibition.
    The museum's new exhibit is drawing quite a crowd.
  4. (law) An article formally introduced as evidence in a court.
    Exhibit A is this photograph of the corpse.

Synonyms

  • (instance of exhibiting): showing
  • (public showing): exhibition, exposition, show

Translations

Further reading

  • exhibit in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • exhibit in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /??.zi?bit/
  • (Valencian) IPA(key): /e?.zi?bit/
  • Rhymes: -it

Verb

exhibit m (feminine exhibida, masculine plural exhibits, feminine plural exhibides)

  1. past participle of exhibir

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