What's the difference between appear and gild?

Appear


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible.
  • (v. i.) To come before the public; as, a great writer appeared at that time.
  • (v. i.) To stand in presence of some authority, tribunal, or superior person, to answer a charge, plead a cause, or the like; to present one's self as a party or advocate before a court, or as a person to be tried.
  • (v. i.) 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.
  • (v. i.) To seem; to have a certain semblance; to look.
  • (n.) Appearance.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A spindle cell sarcoma appeared 20 months after implantation of a pellet of 3-methylcholanthrene in the denervated foreleg of an adult frog, Rana pipiens.
  • (2) However, as other patients who lived at the periphery of the Valserine valley do not appear to be related to any patients living in the valley, and because there has been considerable immigration into the valley, a number of hypotheses to explain the distribution of the disease in the region remain possible.
  • (3) This trend appeared to reverse itself in the low dose animals after 3 hr, whereas in the high dose group, cardiac output continued to decline.
  • (4) 5-HT thus appears to be the preferred substrate for uptake into platelets and for movement from cytoplasm to vesicles.
  • (5) CT appears to yield important diagnostic contribution to preoperative staging.
  • (6) Disease stabilisation was associated with prolonged periods of comparatively high plasma levels of drug, which appeared to be determined primarily by reduced drug clearance.
  • (7) The rash presented either as a pityriasis rosea-like picture which appeared about three to six months after the onset of treatment in patients taking low doses, or alternatively, as lichenoid plaques which appeared three to six months after commencement of medication in patients taking high doses.
  • (8) The angiographic appearances are highly characteristic and equal in value to a histological diagnosis.
  • (9) Slager’s next court appearance is not until 21 August.
  • (10) Cellulase regulation appears to depend upon a complex relationship involving catabolite repression, inhibition, and induction.
  • (11) The process of sequence rearrangement appears to be a significant part of the evolution of the genome and may have a much greater effect on the evolution of the phenotype than sequence alteration by base substitution.
  • (12) In Patient 2 they were at first paroxysmal and unformed, with more prolonged metamorphopsia; later there appeared to be palinoptic formed images, possibly postictal in nature.
  • (13) In dogs, cibenzoline given i.v., had no effects on the slow response systems, probably because of sympathetic nervous system intervention since the class 4 effects of cibenzoline appeared after beta-adrenoceptor blockade.
  • (14) The various evocational changes appear to form sets of interconnected systems and this complex network seems to embody some plasticity since it has been possible to suppress experimentally some of the most universal evocational events or alter their temporal order without impairing evocation itself.
  • (15) Experience of pain is modified by intern and extern influences, and it can appear very multiformly in the chronicity.
  • (16) Coronary arteritis has to be considered as a possible etiology of ischemic symptoms also in subjects who appear affected by typical atherosclerotic ischemic heart disease.
  • (17) A total of 13 ascertainments of folate sensitive autosomal fragile sites is observed, of which 10q23 fragility appears to be the most frequent.
  • (18) However, some contactless transactions are processed offline so may not appear on a customer’s account until after the block has been applied.” It says payments that had been made offline on the day of cancellation may be applied to accounts and would be refunded when the customer identified them; payments made on days after the cancellation will not be taken from an account.
  • (19) Sample processing appears effective in avoiding spontaneous oxalogenesis.
  • (20) The epididymis appeared distended but without any visible sperms.

Gild


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To overlay with a thin covering of gold; to cover with a golden color; to cause to look like gold.
  • (v. t.) To make attractive; to adorn; to brighten.
  • (v. t.) To give a fair but deceptive outward appearance to; to embellish; as, to gild a lie.
  • (v. t.) To make red with drinking.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hitchcock's attempts to keep Hedren in a gilded cage arguably ruined her career.
  • (2) This would sound gilded, except here is Klebold, revisiting every detail in a way that implies it might have been easier on her psychologically if there had been a catastrophe in the household, something pointing to why Dylan did what he did.
  • (3) said a colleague, referring to the former Chadian dictator, who had been living in gilded exile in Dakar since his overthrow in December 1990.
  • (4) His line on white privilege is ace: “There ain’t a white man in this room that would change places with me,” he says on his DVD Bigger & Blacker , then adds gleefully, “And I’m rich!” He makes lots of films, too, but as is often the way with comedians, those are, shall we say, less gilded affairs.
  • (5) The Front National, founded by Jean-Marie Le Pen in 1972, has never been this close to installing its leader inside the gilded rooms of the Élysée Palace.
  • (6) Gilded molybdenum-wire remains in the sclera and episclera without any reaction of the tissue.
  • (7) The last gilded chance for Oscar came to his head: but, like his team, he could not deliver.
  • (8) The Downton journey has been amazing for everyone aboard,” said Fellowes, who wants to start focusing his attention on his long-awaited US drama The Gilded Age for NBC .
  • (9) Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah rushed to telephone Hosni Mubarak to express his support, after welcoming Tunisia's exiled leader Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali to a gilded exile in Jeddah.
  • (10) He laughs from a red leather chair in his gilded suite at the Foreign Office, the most opulent of ministerial quarters.
  • (11) They choose to pay less because of a business model that sees the workforce as a cost to be driven down in the pursuit of ever higher profit, often linked to bloated bonuses and share options for a gilded few at the top – and subsidised with billions in publicly funded tax credits.
  • (12) The BBC's bosses are not alone in roaming the gilded halls of the public sector.
  • (13) But as he sat in the gilded hall, where Barack Obama, Nelson Mandela and Mikhail Gorbachev had all received the prize in recent decades, Clegg decided he was witnessing a special moment.
  • (14) Just the fact of its being there at all took my breath away - a discordant modernist appendage to the gilded baroque former courthouse which is the entrance to the museum, and thus a symbolic reproach to bürgerlich Berlin itself.
  • (15) But they were not tired-and-emotional, and for such mannerly foreigners to have been given a practical definition of that local idiom would have been gilding the lily.
  • (16) It obliged them to keep the majority poor while the rich enjoyed a gilded age.
  • (17) Some claim her as an unlikely feminist escaping the gilded cage of France's first lady.
  • (18) Karen Koren, artistic director of Edinburgh's Gilded Balloon, says that the two companies made comedy the new rock and roll.
  • (19) On a platform level with the octagonal cage in which the fighters would assault each other, was a row of gilded sofas, scattered with red cushions, which still lacked occupants.
  • (20) The house-guests were sufficiently gilded to feel at ease in its Palladian splendour – but even to these worldly young things, their friends' dad must have cut a daunting figure.