disappear

«disappear» in Mova's school dictionary: to go out of sight so that you can no longer be seen — 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 (disappear, disappears, disappeared, disappearing); noun disappearance

meaning for a pupil

1) To disappear means to go out of sight so that you can no longer be seen. tree →

2) To disappear means to stop existing or to be lost: the dinosaurs disappeared long ago. tree →

3) If something disappears, it may have been taken or lost and cannot be found. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science things seem to disappear but often change form: sugar disappears in water (dissolves) but is still there; a puddle disappears because the water evaporates. In stories, disappearing is magic or mystery: a disappearing coin, a missing character. In safety lessons, if a friend or little child disappears from view, tell an adult straight away. Phrases: disappear from view, disappear into thin air, a disappearing act, vanish.

examples

• The sun disappeared behind a cloud. tree →
• My pencil has disappeared again! tree →
• The rabbit disappeared down a hole. tree →
• Sugar seems to disappear when you stir it into tea, but it's still there. tree →
• The puddles disappeared after the sun came out. tree →
• Many kinds of animals are disappearing because their homes are destroyed. tree →
• The magician made the coin disappear. tree →
• If your little brother disappears in a shop, tell a member of staff. tree →
• Then they finished dressing and disappeared. tree →

note

Spelling: one «s», two «p»: dis-ap-pear. Regular: disappeared. «Disappear» does not take an object: «the coin disappeared», but «the magician made the coin disappear». Opposite: appear. In science «disappear» usually means changed or hidden, not destroyed.

In the corpora

• Some of the smallest animals here are the rarest of all, and zoos breed them to save kinds that would otherwise disappear.
• Bees have disappeared from some places because of pesticides (sprays that kill insects), illness and the loss of flowers.
• Sousliks are a main food for steppe eagles, imperial eagles and steppe polecats, so when souslik colonies disappear these hunters disappear too.
• The animals built for the cold steppe disappeared, though scientists still argue how much was climate and how much was people.
• The Cat's head fades away while he is gone; when he comes back with the Duchess, it has entirely disappeared.

Trees and pragmatics

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