Appear | Mean of appear in English Dictionary

/əˈpiɚ/

• Verb
• to seem to be something
1. She appears angry.
2. “Is she angry?” “So it appears.” = “So it would appear.” = “It appears so.”
3. “Is she pleased?” “It appears not.” = “It would appear not.”
4. She appears a nice enough person.
5. Although everything appeared normal to me [=although I thought everything was normal], something was wrong.
6. Winning the election appears unlikely at this point.
7. Things are not always as they appear. [=they are not always what you think they are]
8. It appears to us [=we think] that something should be done.
9. She appeared to be angry.
10. She appears to be a nice enough person.
11. Everyone appeared to have a good time. = They all appeared to enjoy themselves.
• to become visible
1. One by one, the stars appeared in the sky.
2. The sun began to appear from behind the clouds.
3. The airplanes seemed to appear out of nowhere.
4. Her grandfather often appears to her in her dreams. [=she often sees her grandfather in her dreams]
5. The storm disappeared as suddenly as it had appeared.
• to arrive at a place
1. The cat appears at our kitchen door every morning.
2. One of the guests appeared a few minutes late.
3. He appeared a little before eight last night.

• to begin to exist
1. The disease first appeared in the late 1970s.
2. This new technology first appears in Europe in the early 20th century.
• to be seen or heard by the public: such as
• to go where you can be seen to give a speech, answer questions, etc.
1. I was invited to appear before a meeting of teachers to talk about the school system.
2. appearing before a group of reporters
• to work as an actor or performer in a movie, on the radio, etc.
1. The two actors appeared [=performed] together in the film.
2. He has appeared on many radio and television shows.
3. She appeared in her first Broadway musical last year.
4. Several guest musicians appeared on his latest album.
• to be published or made available to the public
1. The story appeared on the front page of the newspaper.
2. We got a lot of phone calls after the story appeared in the newspaper.
3. Her papers have appeared in several different scientific journals.
4. The book appeared in print [=was published] again a few years ago.
5. The word first appeared in print in 1782.
• to go in front of a person or group that has authority (such as a judge or council) especially in order to answer questions
1. I appeared in front of the committee during its last meeting.
2. She was instructed to appear in court the next morning.
3. She appeared before the judge.
4. He will be appearing as a witness at the trial.