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 →

2) To appear means to seem: she appears tired. tree →

3) To appear means to be in a film, show, book or list: the actor appears in the play. tree →

4) To appear also means to come into being or to arrive: new leaves appear in spring. tree →

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 →
• How many times does 5 appear in the list? tree →
• Stars appear every night. tree →
• The number 7 appears 4 times. tree →
• A rainbow appeared after the rain. tree →
• The dog appears to be asleep. tree →
• My drawing appears in the school magazine. tree →
• Suddenly a rabbit appeared from the hat. tree →
• New leaves appear on the trees in spring. tree →

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.
• Bots tend to repeat the most common jokes, because those appeared most often in their training text.
• Some tasks are moving to AI, new jobs appear too, and experts disagree on how much will change.
• Some jobs are changing as AI does some tasks, new jobs appear too, and experts disagree about how much will change.
• An old Scandinavian folk story said lemmings fell from the sky in storms, because they appeared so suddenly in boom years.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «appear» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.