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Venture vs Appearance - What's the difference?

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Venture is a related term of appearance.


As nouns the difference between venture and appearance

is that venture is a risky or daring undertaking or journey while appearance is the act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye.

As a verb venture

is to undertake a risky or daring journey.

venture

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A risky or daring undertaking or journey.
  • * 1881 , Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island . Chapter 4.
    • My heart was beating finely when we two set forth in the cold night upon this dangerous venture .
  • An event that is not, or cannot be, foreseen; an accident; chance; contingency.
    • (Francis Bacon)
  • The thing risked; a stake; especially, something sent to sea in trade.
  • * Shakespeare
    • My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.

    Verb

    (ventur)
  • To undertake a risky or daring journey.
  • * J. Dryden, Jr.
    • who freights a ship to venture on the seas
  • To risk or offer.
    • to venture funds
    to venture a guess
  • * Shakespeare
    • I am afraid; and yet I'll venture it.
  • * 1922 , (James Joyce), Chapter 13
    • Till then they had only exchanged glances of the most casual but now under the brim of her new hat she ventured a look at him and the face that met her gaze there in the twilight, wan and strangely drawn, seemed to her the saddest she had ever seen.
  • to dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success. Used with at'' or ''on
  • To put or send on a venture or chance.
    • to venture a horse to the West Indies
  • To confide in; to rely on; to trust.
  • * Addison
    • A man would be well enough pleased to buy silks of one whom he would not venture to feel his pulse.
  • To say something.

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "venture")

    Derived terms

    * venture capital

    Related terms

    * venturesome * venturous

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    appearance

    English

    Alternative forms

    * appearaunce

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye.
  • A thing seen; a phenomenon; an apparition.
  • Personal presence; look; aspect; mien.
  • * (John Milton) (1608-1674)
    • And now am come to see . . . It thy appearance answer loud report.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
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  • Apparent likeness; external show; how something appears to others.
  • * Bible, (w) ix. 15
    • There was upon the tabernacle, as it were, the appearance of fire.
  • * Bible, 1 (w) xvi. 7
    • For man looketh on the outward appearance .
  • * Bible, (w) vii. 24
    • Judge not according to the appearance .
  • 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.
  • * (John Milton) (1608-1674)
    • Will he now retire, After appearance , and again prolong Our expectation?
  • (legal) The coming into court of either of the parties; the being present in court; the coming into court of a party summoned in an action, either by himself or by his attorney, expressed by a formal entry by the proper officer to that effect; the act or proceeding by which a party proceeded against places himself before the court, and submits to its jurisdiction.
  • (medical) Chiefly used by nurses: the act of defecation by a patient.

    • Synonyms

    * (act of coming into sight) arrival, manifestation, * (a thing seen) spectacle, apparition, phenomenon, presence * (aspect of a person) aspect, air, figure, look, manner, mien * (outward show) semblance, show, pretense, or facade * (act of appearing in public) debut

    Derived terms

    () * court appearance * disappearance * keep up appearances * nonappearance * plate appearance * put in an appearance * reappearance * save appearances

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