0 past simple and past participle of appear --
2 to seem: --
[ after so ] "I think we're late." "So it appears."
"Has he left?" "It appears not/so."
I know how it must appear, but it's not really as bad as it looks.
Everything was not as it appeared - secret deals had been done.
[ + adv/prep ] It appears as if/as though I was wrong.
formal It would appear (that) (= it seems that) nobody on board the aircraft actually had a licence to fly it.
It appears to me (that) (= I think that) we need to make some changes.
[ + (that) ] It appears (that) she left the party alone.
There appears to be some mistake.
[ + to infinitive ] She appears to actually like the man, which I find incredible.
Things aren't always what they appear to be.
To people who don't know him he probably appears (to be) rather unfriendly.
You've got to appear (to be) calm in an interview even if you're terrified underneath.
3 to perform publicly in a play, film, or show: --
She will be appearing in the latest adaptation of "Bleak House".
5 to arrive: --
If she hasn't appeared by ten o'clock I'm going without her.
Regions with sizable urban populations appeared to maintain much less credible registers than regions with largely rural populations.
Regarding the follow-up bid, it appeared that the distribution of (yes, yes) responses diminished with bid size.
In contrast, recordings of inhibitory responses from dissociated cells appeared to originate predominantly in soma and dendritic regions.
In principle, if the word "prevention" appeared in the title of the report, it was included in the analysis.
The lack of systematic age monitoring appeared to reflect an unofficial consensus which placed age at the bottom of the equality agenda.
We observed, in epifluorescence microscopy, that these objects were often not perfectly spherical, but rather appeared as prolate ellipsoids.
Perhaps missing here is an explanation of why the volume appeared more than five years after the workshop was held.
Visual context appeared to be a compelling source of information.
