noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a brief appearance
▪ He made a brief appearance before reporters outside his Manhattan townhouse.
appearances can be deceptive
▪ Gwen’s students may look angelic, but appearances can be deceptive.
cameo role/appearance
make...guest appearance
▪ He will make a special guest appearance on next week’s show.
outward appearance
▪ The economy and outward appearance of the area have changed considerably.
sb’s physical appearance
▪ Describe his physical appearance.
youthful appearance/looks/complexion
▪ She has managed to maintain her youthful appearance.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
brief
▪ Jackson and Medina made a brief appearance before a federal magistrate Tuesday on the extortion charge.
▪ Even then, they would only put in a brief appearance in puddings and cakes at Thanksgiving and Christmas.
▪ The brief appearance of what may seem like an inconsequential maidservant may end up being the turning event of the story.
▪ And I catch the roots of my Enoch Dream: his grinning mug makes a brief appearance on-screen as an Inspiral slide.
▪ Sunil made a brief, VIP-like appearance, and then had to rush off to get a ticket.
▪ It's always fun when Test cricket takes off its fine clothes and makes a brief appearance in ragged jeans and T-shirts.
▪ Tracy Chapman, for example, certainly owes her fame and a lot of her money to her brief appearance at it.
external
▪ The many enchanting designs from that period are almost wholly devoted to external appearance, to cottages as features in the landscape.
▪ Finally, some explanation could be given for the long-known facts of the external appearance of crystals and their properties.
▪ Conservation Ruberlok is applied internally to the underside of the roof leaving the external appearance unchanged.
▪ They are often indistinguishable in external appearance from the larger nonconformist chapels in the next street.
▪ Nobody knows how many different species there might be, even in a taxonomy based on external appearance.
▪ Today Glascoed's external appearance is largely unchanged and its scale is as awesome as ever.
▪ Remember that the success behind this unit relies on a convincing external appearance.
general
▪ The general appearance of the holding, its grass, crops, and animals, give a valuable first impression.
▪ The name came both from the general appearance and from a certain make of shoe with a pattern free surface.
▪ He had developed a droning style of speaking, and the general appearance of sluggishness alarmed his friends.
▪ The general appearance of the area will be greatly improved, particularly benefiting those people located in the ground floor annexe.
▪ Alike in size and general appearance, but not in the guards that operated them.
▪ Although plants vary so greatly in their shape, function and general appearance, the cellulose molecule is the same in all.
▪ He stated himself pleased with the general appearance and appointments of the unit.
▪ In addition, there are some fringe areas such as clothes, physique and general appearance.
outward
▪ But to all outward appearance she was, let it be said, the slightest bit slatternly.
▪ Again, although deceptively simple in outward appearance, this salad satisfied completely with its subtle flavorings.
▪ It revealed an unrepentantly superficial world where life revolved around the minutiae of outward appearances and public display.
▪ To all outward appearance, he looked benign enough, with a mild, unsullied face, the perfect choirboy.
▪ It is comparable with the oddness which might visit all our outward appearances if we stopped looking in mirror.
▪ What it does reveal is a teenager, to every outward appearance comfortable with his lot.
▪ The outward appearance of gloomy taciturnity was therefore taken for the whole man.
▪ This timekeeper, now known as H-5, has all the internal complexity of H-4 but assumes an austere outward appearance.
personal
▪ The Buddhists believe that the print was made by Buddha during one of his few personal appearances.
▪ Political officials offer their views in personal appearances before the citizens.
▪ Women may sense that their own nature is being violated when any choice in personal appearance is taken away from them.
▪ The personal appearance of Stan Lee, the creator of Spider-man, the X-Men and other comic book heroes.
▪ The Romans were interested in conveying aspects of individual character as these were reflected in personal appearance.
▪ He cared little about his living conditions, his personal appearance, or social amenities.
▪ Certainly we're called on to make a large number of personal appearances, frequently for worthy causes.
▪ The activity centres around the big top in Stockton High Street offering free all day entertainment with live broadcasts and personal appearances.
physical
▪ The same may be true of a book which has been deliberately produced to a high standard of physical appearance.
▪ We all know our genes determine physical appearance, such as eye color and hair texture.
▪ When describing the person in question, a reference to physical appearance is often made showing that physical appearance is very important.
▪ There is the very feel one gets from the physical appearance of the school.
▪ When describing the person in question, a reference to physical appearance is often made showing that physical appearance is very important.
▪ The moth's physical appearance is not quite as wasp-like but it adds to its disguise by making a buzzing noise.
▪ We are often attracted to another person by their physical appearance and sometimes by their ideas, opinions and goals.
▪ However, physical appearance and intellect are insufficient foundation for effective long-lasting relationships.
public
▪ His public appearances are few and carefully staged.
▪ In recent public appearances, the speaker looks decidedly off his feed.
▪ Women are much more isolated, since their culture and religion control their public appearances.
▪ When they made public appearances together, they were singled out as the perfect couple.
▪ This was to be his last public appearance.
▪ Her most public appearance since the November elections came at a United Nations conference on social issues last month.
▪ Every publication or public appearance is a demarcation dispute.
▪ Aside from meetings with Clinton and a senior State Department official, Fujimori spent most of his day here in public appearances.
similar
▪ Periclimenes shrimps are superficially similar in appearance to Harlequin Shrimp species but do not harm their host anemone or sea cucumber.
▪ It is very similar in appearance to Parma ham.
▪ The sexes are similar in appearance.
▪ Although of very traditional design and similar in appearance to Nos. 1-35, they were of rather more robust construction.
▪ There is also a life-size mask of similar appearance, together with some sculptures of royal figures and some staffs with human heads.
▪ Although similar in appearance, the two breeds actually have a number of essential differences.
▪ Internet Explorer's Macintosh versions share a similar appearance, but are written entirely afresh for the MacOS.
sudden
▪ The sudden appearance of record company A &038; R men induces paranoia for any band.
▪ Clearly the later volumes show these talents in more skilfully written poems, but their sudden appearance here demands comment.
▪ Because a squint may be due to serious disease, its sudden appearance should always be taken seriously.
▪ The sudden appearance of her bare back made him cough.
▪ Maybe it was Mr McCrindle's sudden appearance that caused Tam to lose his footing.
▪ Was there a sudden appearance of a new species, or were there cases of gradual succession?
▪ The fish were momentarily startled at my sudden appearance, but after a while they ignored me.
■ NOUN
cameo
▪ Rumours suggesting that Shane MacGowan is likely to make cameo appearances could not be confirmed.
▪ Numerous cartoon stars make cameo appearances and Kathleen Turner is the voice of Jessica Rabbit.
▪ Dave did make a cameo appearance in his kayak to run it but quickly reverted back to the raft.
▪ Wilson makes a memorable cameo appearance showing some serious cleavage as a cocktail waitress who attempts to seduce Guy.
▪ Today he is more of a celebrity than an actor, making cameo appearances, commercials and turning up at premières.
▪ Running back Terry Kirby made only a cameo appearance.
court
▪ Admission and discharge dates and visits by relatives together with court appearances will also at time increase the anxieties of residents.
▪ His court appearances drew so much flak that he was forced to relinquish his role at Microsoft.
▪ It was their third court appearance.
▪ From now on, all domestic violence cases will be followed by the same team of prosecutors through every court appearance.
▪ But his lifestyle has lead to court appearances on drug and driving offences and he's served two jail sentences.
▪ Bail was set at $ 60, 000 pending an initial court appearance scheduled for Monday.
▪ A string of personal disasters culminated in a costly court appearance for wrecking a taxi after a night out.
▪ The suspects were arrested after questioning Thursday morning, the chief said, but have been released pending court appearances.
guest
▪ Yet during his Saturday night guest appearance Julio Bocca danced the ballet with a heroic degree of conviction.
▪ Graham Kelly should be putting his own house in order, not making guest appearances in the witness box.
▪ The late mezzo-soprano Jan DeGaetani makes a guest appearance in these 1973 sessions.
▪ Vary the programme with humour, audio-visual devices, music, movement, colour, question and answer sessions, guest appearances.
▪ High spot of the concert was a guest appearance by top pop band Shakatak.
money
▪ I joked that I had to go and collect my $ 40,000 appearance money.
▪ Simpson will receive only one pound, about $ 1. 53, in appearance money, a Granada spokesman said.
▪ Not to ask for any more appearance money. 5.
▪ The air was thick with paranoia as the conversation turned to the perfidious question of appearance money.
▪ The appearance money due to Newcastle was withheld.
television
▪ Top goalkeepers can earn up to £50,000-a-year from manufacturers for wearing their gear, including built-in bonuses for Cup runs and television appearances.
▪ The albums, the television appearances, the movies.
▪ Reagan's television appearances furthermore were carefully scheduled to take place just prior to critical votes on his budgetary and tax policy.
▪ In a schedule that should be released next week, the Eagles will have at least four national television appearances next season.
▪ Thousands of people knew him from his radio and television appearances and weekly newspaper column for the Los Angeles Times.
■ VERB
change
▪ He could change his appearance, but not enough to become immediately unrecognisable.
▪ And the illness has changed his appearance.
▪ Task 14 Objective To reformat paragraphs Paragraph reformatting ... This means changing the appearance and/or position of paragraphs from their default settings.
▪ Has he suddenly stopped wearing that favourite grey jacket or changed his physical appearance in some way?
▪ Some claim that demons can even change the physical appearance of a host body.
▪ Photographs are records and documents which pin down the changing world of appearance.
▪ Guide readers are only aware of contexts to the extent that contexts change the appearance of the document.
▪ All cities have changed their appearance in the last decade.
enhance
▪ Colour is another important point to consider with fine hair, because it can greatly enhance its appearance.
▪ Clever use of make-up can greatly enhance your appearance and leading make-up artist Teresa Fairminer will give you expert advice.
▪ Women have an even broader latitude for enhancing their appearance.
give
▪ The outward tips of his bushy eyebrows were tilted upwards slightly, giving him a demonic appearance.
▪ The new team gives every appearance of knowing where it is heading.
▪ The sheer volume of insignia required for public services means that insignia can be given only the appearance of precious metals.
▪ There was also a senior executive who gave the appearance of selecting successors on the basis of competency.
▪ The shadows around the thing undulated, giving it the appearance of life.
▪ Often there are phosphates, a sort of salt, in the urine, which give it a cloudy appearance.
▪ Its poised, out-thrust head gave it the appearance of a cobra, a white cobra.
▪ Standard 42, one of the new cars fitted with an old Motherwell top deck, giving a strange angular appearance.
improve
▪ Too see these premises re-opened and repaired would indeed improve the appearance of this area of the town.
▪ Want to improve the appearance of a document?
▪ For instance volunteer groups create external benefits by improving the appearance of the environment, through best-kept village competitions or reclaiming old canals.
▪ What can I do to improve its lifeless appearance?
▪ It is true that embalming improves the appearance of a corpse if it is to be viewed by friends and relations.
▪ This considerably improves appearance and provides for the disinfection requirement.
▪ Second phase With the essentials complete, the second phase of the project - to improve overall appearance, is well under way.
▪ A grill is good for improving the appearance of microwaved food.
judge
▪ He knew better than to judge by appearances.
▪ Be careful here. Judge nothing by its appearance.
▪ To judge by appearances, things are back to normal.
▪ Put the right clothes on some one and everyone judges them by their appearance.
▪ Anyway, you shouldn't judge by appearances.
▪ If women are to be judged by their appearance, Mira ought to give up books: Phillario.
▪ Well, all right, so he doesn't look like much, but you shouldn't judge by appearances.
▪ Certainly, judging by his appearance as he lay on the ground, I did not give much for his chances.
keep
▪ Sometimes a mood, or a phase of the menstrual cycle, will bring about a definite aversion to keeping up appearances.
▪ We all have to keep up appearances while we wait for the tide to turn.
▪ He still took care to be rude and truculent at school to keep up appearances, but the old venom had faded.
▪ All my efforts were concentrated on keeping up appearances during those two hours of the day when I was with them.
▪ They spend all they have to keep up appearances.
▪ She just wanted to keep up appearances for the kids.
▪ A travel iron is useful for keeping up appearances on holiday.
▪ Man on the move Everything a man need to keep up appearances while he's away from home.
make
▪ He stepped in front of the class like a demon king making his appearance in a pantomime.
▪ When they made public appearances together, they were singled out as the perfect couple.
▪ As for the library, the surviving books without a proper building to house them must have made a dismal appearance.
▪ When she makes campaign appearances, the taxpayers of North Dakota pay for it.
▪ Only then, when they were finished, did Director Clarac make his appearance.
▪ At 35, Lewis, making his final Olympics appearance, seems fit and ready to add to his eight Olympic golds.
▪ Master Alexander makes his first recorded appearance as witness to a settlement presided over by Archbishop Langton in 1216.
▪ Jackson and Medina made a brief appearance before a federal magistrate Tuesday on the extortion charge.
put
▪ Napkins and old cigarette packets did not, sadly, put in an appearance.
▪ She still puts in occasional appearances, Graves concluded in all sincerity, as a muse to poets like himself!
▪ Conrad Allen put in a first appearance on the track in the 600 metres at Crawley.
▪ We tour a lot in late winter and early spring, too, when sleet likes to put in an appearance.
▪ If the training schedule of the Hearts players is not too strenuous then one or two might put in an surprise appearance?
▪ He always had their maid squeeze some fresh juice when Lorna Lewis was scheduled to put in an appearance.
▪ He wondered what time Howarth usually put in an appearance.
▪ There must be other places in the evening where Suzie might be expected to put in an appearance.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
keep up appearances
▪ A travel iron is useful for keeping up appearances on holiday.
▪ All my efforts were concentrated on keeping up appearances during those two hours of the day when I was with them.
▪ He still took care to be rude and truculent at school to keep up appearances, but the old venom had faded.
▪ Man on the move Everything a man need to keep up appearances while he's away from home.
▪ She just wanted to keep up appearances for the kids.
▪ Sometimes a mood, or a phase of the menstrual cycle, will bring about a definite aversion to keeping up appearances.
▪ They spend all they have to keep up appearances.
▪ We all have to keep up appearances while we wait for the tide to turn.
public appearance
▪ Among those attending the cremation ceremony in Vientiane on Jan. 28 were President Souphanouvong, making a rare public appearance.
▪ Aside from meetings with Clinton and a senior State Department official, Fujimori spent most of his day here in public appearances.
▪ Baldwin's next major public appearance was his Budget speech in April.
▪ Her most public appearance since the November elections came at a United Nations conference on social issues last month.
▪ His visit to a literary dinner in Oxford was the only public appearance in this country.
▪ In recent public appearances, the speaker looks decidedly off his feed.
▪ It was the first public appearance for Caroline, who has been learning to belly dance for about eight months.
▪ When they made public appearances together, they were singled out as the perfect couple.
put in an appearance
▪ A few more attempts convinced him that nobody was going to put in an appearance.
▪ He always had their maid squeeze some fresh juice when Lorna Lewis was scheduled to put in an appearance.
▪ He wondered what time Howarth usually put in an appearance.
▪ Napkins and old cigarette packets did not, sadly, put in an appearance.
▪ Others, semi-sightseers, put in an appearance.
▪ She always tried to put in an appearance at the funerals of patients who had the misfortune to die.
▪ There was an hour yet before she need put in an appearance in the restaurant for the evening meal.
▪ We tour a lot in late winter and early spring, too, when sleet likes to put in an appearance.
take pride in your work/appearance etc
▪ And taking Pride in their work ... behind the scenes of a top drama.
▪ He takes pride in his appearance, setting a high standard to exemplify his healthy leadership style.
▪ I take pride in my work-particularly my work as a health educator.
▪ In fact, a set of beautifully manicured nails is a sign of a woman who takes pride in her appearance.
▪ Muriel took pride in their appearance and tried to forget Stephen's late night and Lily's missing days.
▪ The croft cottage was small, only two rooms, but she took pride in her work.
▪ You have to take pride in your work.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A layer of sand will give a natural appearance to the bottom of the aquarium.
▪ Concentrate on the content of your essay, not its appearance.
▪ I wish she'd do something about her appearance - she's always such a mess.
▪ Judging by appearances, things are back to normal.
▪ Karen gives the appearance of being confident, but she isn't really.
▪ O'Brien's article suggests ways to improve your appearance.
▪ The Christmas lights gave the house a festive appearance.
▪ The military activity was in stark contrast to the peaceful appearance of the islands.
▪ The mushrooms are similar in appearance to poisonous one, so you have to be careful.
▪ The waitress, although she was only about 40, had the appearance of a very old woman.
▪ The wall was painted with little squares to give the appearance of mosaic.
▪ This mushroom looks harmless enough, but appearances can be deceptive and it is in fact very poisonous.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Later I put one on the wall of my study so that I could watch these changes in my appearance.
▪ Personal appearances always seemed to be a bone of contention.
▪ Products in this category can be rapidly restored to a remarkably fresh appearance by the addition of water.
▪ The appearance of a drug that promotes sleep without depressing the central nervous sys-tem has been long awaited.
▪ The nematodes are commonly called roundworms, from their appearance in cross-section.
▪ You must be very pleased with its production and appearance.