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say it: uh-PIR
appear is a verb meaning "give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect". It carries 7 recorded senses.
come into being or existence, or appear on the scene
“Then the computer came along and changed our lives”
“Homo sapiens appeared millions of years ago”
appear as a character on stage or appear in a play, etc.
“Gielgud appears briefly in this movie”
“She appeared in `Hamlet' on the London stage”
dramaturgy
present oneself formally, as before a (judicial) authority
“He had to appear in court last month”
“She appeared on several charges of theft”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for appear come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.