APPEARING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does appearing mean? 

• APPEARING (noun)
  The noun APPEARING has 1 sense:

1. formal attendance (in court or at a hearing) of a party in an action

  Familiarity information: APPEARING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• APPEARING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Formal attendance (in court or at a hearing) of a party in an action

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

appearance; appearing; coming into court

Hypernyms ("appearing" is a kind of...):

attendance; attending (the act of being present (at a meeting or event etc.))

 Context examples 

A disorder characterized by an eruption of papules and pustules, typically appearing in face, scalp, upper chest and back.

(Acneiform Dermatitis, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

Of the appearance of the four wanderers little need be said, since their photographs have for some time been appearing in all the papers.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

More wolves were appearing every moment and joining in the chase.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

A person who has been qualified and licensed to advise clients on legal matters and to provide legal services, including appearing in court.

(Attorney, NCI Thesaurus)

Without appearing to hear her, he walked to the window, fidgeted about, hummed a tune, and seemed wholly self-occupied.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Every report agreed in Captain Wentworth's appearing fixed in Lyme.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

A morphologic finding indicating the presence of basal cells in the epidermis with pale or clear-appearing cytoplasm.

(Basal Cells with Pale Cytoplasm Present, NCI Thesaurus)

And she had a disagreeable consciousness of not appearing to imply that it had been an overpowering pleasure.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A variant of acinar prostate adenocarcinoma characterized by the presence of malignant cells with abundant xanthomatous appearing cytoplasm.

(Acinar Prostate Adenocarcinoma, Foamy Gland Variant, NCI Thesaurus)

You may be working on a charity and meeting many new like-minded people, having one or more book-signings, giving speeches, or appearing as a spokesperson on TV.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)