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# appear

«appear» in Mova's school dictionary: **to come into sight, to begin to be seen: a rainbow appeared** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (appear, appears, appeared, appearing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To appear means to come into sight, to begin to be seen: a rainbow appeared. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/appear/#m1)

2) To appear means to seem: she appears tired. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/appear/#m2)

3) To appear means to be in a film, show, book or list: the actor appears in the play. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/appear/#m3)

4) To appear also means to come into being or to arrive: new leaves appear in spring. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/appear/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In maths: things that show up are added (more birds appear); «how many times does a number appear in the list» means count; a number that appears in a pattern. In science: stars appear at night; buds appear in spring. In stories: a ghost suddenly appeared. Phrases: appear in, appear to, it appears that, suddenly appear, appear on TV.

### examples

- 3 more birds appeared on the fence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/appear/#x1)
- How many times does 5 appear in the list? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/appear/#x2)
- Stars appear every night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/appear/#x3)
- The number 7 appears 4 times. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/appear/#x4)
- A rainbow appeared after the rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/appear/#x5)
- The dog appears to be asleep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/appear/#x6)
- My drawing appears in the school magazine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/appear/#x7)
- Suddenly a rabbit appeared from the hat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/appear/#x8)
- New leaves appear on the trees in spring. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/appear/#x9)

### note

Noun «appearance». Opposite: disappear (dis- means the opposite). «More appear» means add. «How many times does it appear» means count. Trap: «appears to be» means seems, it may not really be so.

### In the corpora

- [Chatbots run on giant computers in data centres; the words appearing one by one is just how the answer is shown.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/2-guessing-the-next-word/16/)
- [Bots tend to repeat the most common jokes, because those appeared most often in their training text.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/4-stories-jokes-and-riddles/6/)
- [Some tasks are moving to AI, new jobs appear too, and experts disagree on how much will change.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/21-news-deepfakes-history/3/)
- [Some jobs are changing as AI does some tasks, new jobs appear too, and experts disagree about how much will change.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/21-news-deepfakes-history/9/)
- [An old Scandinavian folk story said lemmings fell from the sky in storms, because they appeared so suddenly in boom years.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/150-myth-check-do-lemmings-jump-off-cliffs/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «appear» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/appear/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.