What's the difference between appear and loom?

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.

Loom


Definition:

  • (n.) See Loon, the bird.
  • (n.) A frame or machine of wood or other material, in which a weaver forms cloth out of thread; a machine for interweaving yarn or threads into a fabric, as in knitting or lace making.
  • (n.) That part of an oar which is near the grip or handle and inboard from the rowlock.
  • (v. i.) To appear above the surface either of sea or land, or to appear enlarged, or distorted and indistinct, as a distant object, a ship at sea, or a mountain, esp. from atmospheric influences; as, the ship looms large; the land looms high.
  • (v. i.) To rise and to be eminent; to be elevated or ennobled, in a moral sense.
  • (n.) The state of looming; esp., an unnatural and indistinct appearance of elevation or enlargement of anything, as of land or of a ship, seen by one at sea.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) City landed the former Barcelona chief executive, Ferran Soriano , and many thought the two former Barça men's recruitment looked a threat to the Italian, especially with Pep Guardiola on sabbatical and looming over any potential vacancies at Europe's top clubs.
  • (2) The initial impact was felt on the local currency market where a shortage of foreign exchange caused a looming crisis.
  • (3) And you’re doing it three weeks after the initial revelations, and only when your position is obviously under threat and with a no confidence motion in your position as Speaker looming.
  • (4) And few people say they are feeling much better off, or view the future with great optimism, as further cuts loom.
  • (5) In the longer term, a summer of crisis eurozone summits to discuss the fate of Greece looms.
  • (6) The New South Wales and South Australian premiers have joined forces to tell treasurer Scott Morrison that finding extra federal funding to head off a looming hospitals and schools funding “cliff” is a “non negotiable” condition of their support for increasing the GST.
  • (7) The impact of such reforms will be reflected in slower growth in both the short and long terms.” “But the biggest unknown, without question, is the looming trade war with the US.
  • (8) An investigation by the Competition and Markets Authority is looming.
  • (9) The first series of Jed Mercurio's Line of Duty on BBC2 missed out at awards time two years ago; expect it to loom large next year.
  • (10) Updated at 11.27am BST 11.18am BST Another reminder that the debt ceiling is looming: James Pethokoukis (@JimPethokoukis) Washington fell off the government shutdown cliff ... and there is not another cliff to break its fall until Oct. 17 - Wash. Research Group October 1, 2013 11.16am BST How much will the shutdown cost?
  • (11) Hammond’s budget measures promised to stave off the looming crisis for Southwold – at least temporarily.
  • (12) But the talks risk being overshadowed by the looming Greek crisis.
  • (13) It charts a path ahead for the NHS that will largely hold good, whatever the outcome of the looming general election.
  • (14) 4 October 2009: George Papandreou becomes prime minister Papandreou's Panhellenic Socialist Movement (Pasok) party wins power after New Democracy calls a snap general election, asking the Greek people for a new mandate to tackle the looming financial crisis.
  • (15) In an economy still struggling with high joblessness and the threat of renewed recession still looming, convincing some of the party's stressed base might not be easy.
  • (16) Extra supplies are also looming from the US, where stockpiles are growing as extra drilling rigs are put into operation.
  • (17) Abbott said the government “wanted to ensure we have all the tools we need” to address a looming terrorist threat and that the democratic process of getting the changes through parliament would be “the most important safeguard” to ensure the legal rights of the innocent were protected.
  • (18) Maybe it will do him good to go away with England.” Such is the cyclical life of goalscorers, there are times when those fractions that can be the difference between a ball ending up nestled in the net, or agonisingly wide, or foiled by a goalkeeper that probably seems 10 feet tall, loom large.
  • (19) Next week's meeting of the Fed's monetary policy committee is already looming over markets -- after last Friday's Non-Farm Payroll showed more new US jobs created in November than expected.
  • (20) On Wednesday the protests were large but a lot calmer At the intersection of North Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue in West Baltimore a small group of protesters congregated as the curfew loomed but gradually departed, leaving empty streets.

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