Word Finder - appearance

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The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye.

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His sudden appearance surprised me.

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A thing seen; a phenomenon; an apparition.

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There was a strange appearance in the sky.

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The way something looks; personal presence

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• aspect
• mien

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Apparent likeness; the way which something or someone appears to others.

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Some people say I'm shallow because I care so much about my appearance.

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That which is not substance, essence, hypostasis; the outward reality as opposed to the underlying reality

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Catholicism teaches that the Eucharist, while remaining under the physical appearance of bread and wine, becomes really and truly the body and the blood of Christ.

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The act of appearing in a particular place, or in society, a company, or any proceedings; a coming before the public in a particular character.

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A person makes his appearance as an historian, an artist, or an orator.

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An instance of someone coming into a court of law to be part of a trial, either in person or represented by an attorney or such like; a court appearance

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Chiefly used by nurses: the act of defecation by a patient.

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The patient had a small bowel obstruction and there was no appearance until after the obstruction resolved.

Shadows made his appearance sinister.

He sensed the silent appearance of his friend and drew a breath.

Each time he made an appearance, Alex was close enough to see.

He's gonna make an appearance, just you watch!

In appearance he was just what he used to be.

This wasn't planned, and her appearance was almost too late.

His clothing was pressed and his appearance spry despite his almost sixty years.

I tried to describe to her the appearance of a camel; but, as we were not allowed to touch the animal, I feared that she did not get a correct idea of its shape.

You better calm down, or else your appearance is going to be the least of your worries.

Kris entered, followed by someone whose appearance made her gasp.

Denton was fastidious about his appearance and he expected the woman at his side to mirror that image.

The appearance of the Asiatic elephant is familiar to all.

His whole appearance and manner were suddenly transformed.

Dolokhov's appearance amazed Petya by its simplicity.

If she needed any reassurance about her appearance, it was immediately supplied by Yancey's reaction when she entered the family room.

The similarities between the girl's appearance and the memory of her deceased mother made Jessi nauseous.

His panther-like physique and tattoos gave him all the appearance of a threat, and yet, he'd fended off her blows with gentleness he didn't have to show.

Dean was startled by her appearance, not even sure at first who it was.

She took extra care with her appearance, wearing a blue dress that somehow managed to bring out the violet in her eyes.

It is surrounded by walls and is of antique appearance.

The raised eyebrow expressed her disapproval of his sudden appearance in a way that made him want to touch her and remind her that he did what he wanted now.

The Great Plains are covered for the most part only with bunch grass which grows in tufts, leaving the ground visible between, and except in May and June presents a yellow and withered appearance.

Masonry bridges are preferable in appearance to any others, and metal arch bridges are less objectionable than most forms of girder.

It has a very fine appearance, especially when seen in perspective and not merely in elevation.

As the part east of the river was once covered by the ice-sheet, its hills have been lowered and its valleys filled through the attrition of glaciers until the surface has a gently undulating appearance.

The most remarkable of the cliffs is the Pleaskin, the upper pillars of which have the appearance of a colonnade, and are 60 ft.

Baisa Bol, Bhesa Bol or Bissa Bol, from Balsamodendron Kataf, resembles true myrrh in appearance, but has a disagreeable taste and is scarcely bitter.

The ice-sheet wore down from the hills and filled the valleys with debris until the surface has a billowy appearance.

Never again would she be startled by his sudden appearance in the garden, nor laugh at his gentle frolicking with the twins.

It is of beautiful appearance, and the almost tropical profusion of its growth may have led to the early erroneous reports of the densely-wooded nature of these islands.

As a rule the general facies as well as dimensions are remarkably uniform throughout a family, so that tropical species -often differ little in appearance from those inhabiting temperate regions.

The young involucre surrounds the female flower and the stalk supporting the spike of male flowers, and when ripe has the appearance of bluish-white porcelain.

The raising of Lazarus, in appearance a massive, definitely localized historical fact, requires a similar interpretation, unless we would, in favour of the direct historicity of a story peculiar to a profoundly allegorical treatise, ruin the historical trustworthiness of the largely historical Synoptists in precisely their most complete and verisimilar part.

Thus while the armies in Manchuria faced one another with every appearance of confidence, behind them the situation was exceedingly grave for both parties.

The digressions are indeed constant, and sometimes have the appearance of being absolutely wilful.

Unluckily, Mlle de Gournay's original does not appear to exist and her text was said, until the appearance of MM.

The interior of Mosul has an insignificant appearance, only a few of the older buildings being left, among which may be mentioned the Great Mosque, with its leaning minaret, formerly a church dedicated to St Paul.

Her first recorded appearance on the stage was in 1665 as Cydaria, Montezuma's daughter, in Dryden's Indian Emperor, a serious part ill-suited to her.

Her last appearance was as Almahide to the Almanzor of Hart, in Dryden's The Conquest of Granada (1670), the production of which had been postponed some months for her return to the stage after the birth of her first son by the king.

Its administration causes the appearance in the urine of a salt of cubebic acid which is precipitated by heat or nitric acid, and is therefore liable to be mistaken for albumin, when these two most common tests for the occurrence of albuminuria are applied.

The abdomen is usually sharply bent between the third and fourth segments and has a characteristically humped appearance when straightened out.

In the more arid regions the sage-brush and cactus make their appearance.

The political events of 1848-1849, however, delayed his appearance in his new chair.

The baptismal fonts date from the 12th century, and the curious spire in the form of an elongated pumpkin and covered with slates gives a fantastic and original appearance to the whole edifice.

The transverse fracture has a resinous appearance with white streaks; the flavour is bitter and aromatic, and the odour characteristic. It consists of a mixture of resin, gum and essential oil, the resin being present to the extent of 25 to 40%, with 21to 8% of the oil, myrrhol, to which the odour is due.

An attack on Quintus Cicero (brother of the orator), then quartered with a legion in the territory of the Nervii, failed owing to the timely appearance of Caesar.

From the falls to McCarthy's Island, a distance of 200 m., the river valley, which here presents a park-like appearance, is enclosed by low rocky hills of volcanic character.

Nor were the Greek signs without effect in determining the names of the manazil, 2 the late appearance of which, in a complete form, removes all difficulty in accounting for the various foreign influences brought to bear upon them.

Metamorphosis in Diptera is complete; the larvae are utterly different from the perfect insects in appearance, and, although varying greatly in outward form, are usually footless grubs; those of the Muscidae are generally known as maggots.

It is, however, during the Middle Minoan age, the centre point of which corresponds with the XIIth Egyptian dynasty, according to the Sothic system of dating, c. 2000-1850 B.C., that a systematized pictographic or hieroglyphic script makes its appearance which is common both to signets and clay tablets.