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Appear

verb

(past & past part. appeared; pres. part. appearing)

Give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect. Synonyms: look, seem. "This appears to be a very difficult problem" , "This project looks fishy" , "They appeared like people who had not eaten or slept for a long time"

Come into sight or view. "A new star appeared on the horizon"

Be issued or published. Synonym: come out. "The new Woody Allen film hasn't come out yet"

Seem to be true, probable, or apparent. Synonym: seem. "It appears that the weather in California is very bad"

Come into being or existence, or appear on the scene. Synonym: come along. "Homo sapiens appeared millions of years ago"

Appear as a character on stage or appear in a play, etc.. "She appeared in 'Hamlet' on the London stage"

Present oneself formally, as before a (judicial) authority. "She appeared on several charges of theft"

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"Appear" Quotes from Famous Books

... what those who know him would expect him to be, Mrs. Stannard, calm and resolute. I never saw a man appear to better advantage than he did before the officials there in town. I never knew how much there was in him until to-day. Mr. Green tendered his legal services and had a short talk with him, and he's out here now; so is a detective from Denver, and Colonel Rand will get here from department headquarters ...

— Marion's Faith. • Charles King

... of inserting the advertisement, as you deny having done it yourself, for some purpose which does not appear?" ...

— The Mark Of Cain • Andrew Lang

... foundation for a new plantation. In this manner, extending the old forests out into the shallow water of the bays, and forming new colonies wherever the water is not too deep, these plants rapidly occupy all the region which elsewhere would appear in the ...

— Outlines of the Earth's History - A Popular Study in Physiography • Nathaniel Southgate Shaler

... Tom's mother made the pudding, and that Tom held the candle, we refer to the old edition of this choice piece of chapman's ware, where an accurate drawing of Mrs. Thumb, and the board, and the bowl, and Tom with the candle, may be inspected. The prima stamina of the modern fruit-pudding really appear to be found in the ancient bag-pudding, of which Tom Thumb had such excellent reason to be acquainted with the contents. The mode of construction was similar, and both were boiled in a cloth. The material and subsidiary treatment of course differed; but ...

— Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine • William Carew Hazlitt

... to the castle she found there a message, bidding her appear before the king in Cologne on the Rhine. Filled with confidence in the protection of higher powers, she did not hesitate to obey. In gorgeous costume, with many followers, ...

— Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy - Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls • Various

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