Appear vs Visible - What's the difference?
appear | visible |
(label) To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible.
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* {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
, author=(Jeremy Bernstein), volume=100, issue=2, page=146, magazine=(American Scientist)
, title= (label) To come before the public.
* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
, title=
, chapter=2 (label) To stand in presence of some authority, tribunal, or superior person, to answer a charge, plead a cause, or the like; to present one's self as a party or advocate before a court, or as a person to be tried.
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* (rfdate) (Thomas Babington Macaulay):
(label) To become visible to the apprehension of the mind; to be known as a subject of observation or comprehension, or as a thing proved; to be obvious or manifest.
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* (rfdate) (John Milton):
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=18 * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, magazine=(American Scientist)
, author= To seem; to have a certain semblance; to look.
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* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=5 Able to be seen.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5
, passage=Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm, he was now beginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness, the consciousness dawning upon him that his eccentricity was not receiving the ovation it merited.}}
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author=
, title=
As a verb appear
is to come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible.As an adjective visible is
able to be seen.appear
English
Verb
(en verb)- And Godthe dry land appear .
A Palette of Particles, passage=There were also particles no one had predicted that just appeared . Five of them […, i]n order of increasing modernity, […] are the neutrino, the pi meson, the antiproton, the quark and the Higgs boson.}}
citation, passage=Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.}}
- We must all appear before the judgment seat.
- One ruffian escaped because no prosecutor dared to appear .
- It doth not yet appear what we shall be.
- Of their vain contest appeared no end.
citation, passage=‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police […]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?}}
Philip J. Bushnell, title=
Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance, passage=Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that acute exposure to solvent vapors at concentrations below those associated with long-term effects appears to increase the risk of a fatal automobile accident. Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene,
- They disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast.
citation, passage=Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected.}}
Usage notes
* Senses 4, 5. This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . SeeSynonyms
* (seem) lookAntonyms
* (to become visible) disappear, vanishvisible
English
Adjective
(en adjective)William E. Conner
An Acoustic Arms Race, volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close