What's the difference between appear and queer?

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.

Queer


Definition:

  • (a.) At variance with what is usual or normal; differing in some odd way from what is ordinary; odd; singular; strange; whimsical; as, a queer story or act.
  • (a.) Mysterious; suspicious; questionable; as, a queer transaction.
  • (n.) Counterfeit money.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A few people might have wasted time trying to define Conchita's identity or worrying if she is one of "us", but the majority saw her for what she is: an ambassador for diversity, and a beacon of light – no doubt – to our queer cousins on the continent.
  • (2) A radical reworking of Douglas Sirk with Julianne Moore's 1950s housewife married to repressed homosexual Dennis Quaid, the film earned Haynes an Oscar nomination and confirmed him as a major talent, and one who'd outgrown the role of poster boy for New Queer Cinema.
  • (3) The interview when William F Buckley called Vidal 'queer'.
  • (4) Too straight, white and corporate: why some queer people are skipping SF Pride Read more Both had lost partners: Povilat to liver disease, Persinger to a heart attack.
  • (5) "It represents senseless acts of violence against trans and queer bodies beyond the historical lens," says Cassils.
  • (6) Lee, a member of the LGBT advocacy group in Northern Ireland Queer Space, wanted a cake featuring Sesame Street puppets Bert and Ernie with the slogan: support gay marriage.
  • (7) It has served as a truly welcoming queer space for gay people, straight people, trans people and just about everyone else since it opened in 2009.
  • (8) Lee had been here before – on queer street against John Jackson and Matt Korobov, each time pulling out a spectacular winning burst for stunning victories.
  • (9) We can only assume the MPAA considers the lives of queer old people as a threat to young, impressionable minds.
  • (10) Even though I desperately wanted to go, and I’ve known I was queer since I was a child, I matriculated at a Christian college at my mother’s request.
  • (11) I shot a queer forestry camp recently and it was one of the best days of my life.” LGBT: San Francisco is published by Reel Art Press (£40).
  • (12) Woe to you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep.” It’s not a sentiment reflected in ACL press releases, less concerned with warning the rich than fighting the queers.
  • (13) François Bikoro, the editor of the popular (and populist) Cameroonian weekly L'Anecdote – which, like a number of publications across the continent, has published lists of people it accuses of being gay, accompanied by headlines like "The Queers Are Among Us" – reckons circulation has increased from 5,000 to "more than 20,000" since "we began dealing with homosexuality".
  • (14) Dramatists as successful as John Osborne and Simon Gray would regularly complain that you had to be queer if you wanted to get on in the English theatre.
  • (15) It harks back to a time before gay went mainstream, before Will and Grace, before Queer As Folk, before the age of gay romcoms like Adam and Steve.
  • (16) Fellow artist Callie L is working on an essay that views One Direction’s performance of Where Do Broken Hearts Go on The X Factor with Ronnie Wood through the queer theory of the late American LGBT activist Vito Russo.
  • (17) Later, they shoot a queer-basher, which provoked angry outcries at some gay festival screenings and loud cheers at others.
  • (18) Its first production was the multi-award-winning Queer as Folk, which Guardian critics named the 13th best drama series of all time.
  • (19) Pride really should be for queer folks,” said Amy Sueyoshi, a lifelong San Francisco resident, who identifies as genderqueer.
  • (20) Photograph: Paul Grace When it comes to spaces for queer girls, Pitch Slap!