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APPEARING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Formal attendance (in court or at a hearing) of a party in an action
Synonyms:
appearance; appearing; coming into court
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("appearing" is a kind of...):
attendance; attending (the act of being present (at a meeting or event etc.))
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb appear
Context examples:
Appearing during the planet's southern summer, the feature is the fourth and latest mysterious dark vortex captured by Hubble since 1993.
(Hubble Reveals Dynamic Atmospheres of Uranus, Neptune, NASA)
In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained; the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses, which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
We must stand together, without appearing to do so, in secret alliance.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Adding to this compelling narrative is another galaxy, appearing to the lower left of D100 in the image, that foreshadows D100's fate.
(Hubble Sees Plunging Galaxy Losing Its Gas, NASA)
The influx of water from the rings, appearing at specific latitudes, washed away the stratospheric haze, making it appear dark in reflected light, producing the narrow dark bands.
(Saturn is Losing Its Rings, NASA)
I am very sensible, madam, of the hardship to my fair cousins, and could say much on the subject, but that I am cautious of appearing forward and precipitate.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
A cell with empty-appearing cytoplasm when viewed with a light microscope.
(Clear cell, NCI Thesaurus)
An astrocytic tumor appearing before the age of twenty one without designation of benign or malignant nor designated location.
(Childhood Astrocytic Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)
An increase in any epithelial cells of the intestinal mucosa appearing as elongated villi or crypts.
(Mucosal Hyperplasia of the Mouse Intestinal Tract, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)
She came solitarily down the gravel walk—a Miss Martin just appearing at the door, and parting with her seemingly with ceremonious civility.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
