1 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.
2 to perform publicly in a play, film, or show: --
She will be appearing in the latest adaptation of "Bleak House".
4 to arrive: --
If she hasn't appeared by ten o'clock I'm going without her.
5 to become noticeable or to be present: --
It appears that endogenous and/or exogenous serotonin in preimplantation embryos could be involved in complex autocrine/paracrine regulations of embryo development and embryo-maternal interactions.
This can make study findings appear redundant as the health service rushes on to experiment with the next new initiative.
But farm size does not appear to explain differences in yields and net returns when the technology is adopted.
Continuing treatment appears to have a protective effect against relapse.
In the remainder of cases, the division was purely histological, as the physiology appeared uniform in the factors we tested.
Thus, the dissipation of volume appears for purely topological reasons.
Purely indefinite readings appear to be more exceptional, yet in some contexts they provide a plausible interpretation of a given gerund construction.
Instead, they appeared on occasion to recompute the phonetic elements, producing a new erroneous version.
