appear

1. (intransitive) To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible.Examples: "And God[…]said, Let[…]the dry land appear."; "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."Synonyms: emergeintransitive

2. (intransitive) To come before the public.Examples: "A great writer appeared at that time."; "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."intransitive

3. (intransitive) To stand in presence of some authority, tribunal, or superior person, to answer a charge, plead a cause, etc.; to present oneself as a party or advocate before a court, or as a person to be tried.Examples: "We must all appear before the judgment seat."; "One ruffian escaped because no prosecutor dared to appear."intransitive

4. (intransitive) 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.Examples: "It doth not yet appear what we shall be."; "Of their vain contest appeared no end."; "‘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?"intransitive

5. (intransitive, copulative) To seem; to have a certain semblance; to look.Examples: "He appeared quite happy with the result."; "They disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast."; "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."Synonyms: lookcopulativeintransitive

6. (transitive) To bring into view.Examples: "[Angelo] is yet a devil / His filth within being cast, he would appear / A pond as deep as hell."transitive