What's the difference between appear and strike?

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.

Strike


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument or missile.
  • (v. t.) To come in collision with; to strike against; as, a bullet struck him; the wave struck the boat amidships; the ship struck a reef.
  • (v. t.) To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.
  • (v. t.) To stamp or impress with a stroke; to coin; as, to strike coin from metal: to strike dollars at the mint.
  • (v. t.) To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate; to set in the earth; as, a tree strikes its roots deep.
  • (v. t.) To punish; to afflict; to smite.
  • (v. t.) To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes; as, the clock strikes twelve; the drums strike up a march.
  • (v. t.) To lower; to let or take down; to remove; as, to strike sail; to strike a flag or an ensign, as in token of surrender; to strike a yard or a topmast in a gale; to strike a tent; to strike the centering of an arch.
  • (v. t.) To make a sudden impression upon, as by a blow; to affect sensibly with some strong emotion; as, to strike the mind, with surprise; to strike one with wonder, alarm, dread, or horror.
  • (v. t.) To affect in some particular manner by a sudden impression or impulse; as, the plan proposed strikes me favorably; to strike one dead or blind.
  • (v. t.) To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke; as, to strike a light.
  • (v. t.) To cause to ignite; as, to strike a match.
  • (v. t.) To make and ratify; as, to strike a bargain.
  • (v. t.) To take forcibly or fraudulently; as, to strike money.
  • (v. t.) To level, as a measure of grain, salt, or the like, by scraping off with a straight instrument what is above the level of the top.
  • (v. t.) To cut off, as a mortar joint, even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
  • (v. t.) To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly; as, my eye struck a strange word; they soon struck the trail.
  • (v. t.) To borrow money of; to make a demand upon; as, he struck a friend for five dollars.
  • (v. t.) To lade into a cooler, as a liquor.
  • (v. t.) To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
  • (v. t.) To advance; to cause to go forward; -- used only in past participle.
  • (v. i.) To move; to advance; to proceed; to take a course; as, to strike into the fields.
  • (v. i.) To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.
  • (v. i.) To hit; to collide; to dush; to clash; as, a hammer strikes against the bell of a clock.
  • (v. i.) To sound by percussion, with blows, or as with blows; to be struck; as, the clock strikes.
  • (v. i.) To make an attack; to aim a blow.
  • (v. i.) To touch; to act by appulse.
  • (v. i.) To run upon a rock or bank; to be stranded; as, the ship struck in the night.
  • (v. i.) To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
  • (v. i.) To break forth; to commence suddenly; -- with into; as, to strike into reputation; to strike into a run.
  • (v. i.) To lower a flag, or colors, in token of respect, or to signify a surrender of a ship to an enemy.
  • (v. i.) To quit work in order to compel an increase, or prevent a reduction, of wages.
  • (v. i.) To become attached to something; -- said of the spat of oysters.
  • (v. i.) To steal money.
  • (n.) The act of striking.
  • (n.) An instrument with a straight edge for leveling a measure of grain, salt, and the like, scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.
  • (n.) A bushel; four pecks.
  • (n.) An old measure of four bushels.
  • (n.) Fullness of measure; hence, excellence of quality.
  • (n.) An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
  • (n.) The act of quitting work; specifically, such an act by a body of workmen, done as a means of enforcing compliance with demands made on their employer.
  • (n.) A puddler's stirrer.
  • (n.) The horizontal direction of the outcropping edges of tilted rocks; or, the direction of a horizontal line supposed to be drawn on the surface of a tilted stratum. It is at right angles to the dip.
  • (n.) The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmailing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Arda Turan's deflected long-range strike puts Atlético back in control.
  • (2) Although the mean values for all hemodynamic variables between the two placebo periods were minimally changed, the differences in individual patients were striking.
  • (3) The amplitudes of the a-wave and the 01 decreased in dose-dependent manners, but their changes were less striking than those of the 01 latency.
  • (4) A striking feature of BEN is the familial occurrence of the disease.
  • (5) What is striking is the comprehensive and strategic approach they have.
  • (6) The most striking feature of some industrialized countries is a dramatic reduction of the prevalence of dental caries among school-aged children.
  • (7) Confirmation of the striking correlation between increased urinary ammonia and lowered neonatal ponderal index may afford a simple test for the identification of nutrient-related growth retardation.
  • (8) All aircraft exited the strike areas safely.” Earlier, residents living near the Mosul dam told the Associated Press the area was being targeted by air strikes.
  • (9) It’s not to punish the public, it’s to save the NHS and its people.” Another commenter added: “Of course they should strike.
  • (10) If you want to become a summit celebrity be sure to strike a pose whenever you see the ENB photographer approaching.
  • (11) I believe that what we need is a nonviolent national general strike of the kind that has been more common in Europe than here.
  • (12) Striking and consistent differences were found in the levels of acceptor activity in different tissues from both groups; these levels corresponded to their sensitivity to tumorigenesis by alkylating agents.
  • (13) "It will strike consumers as unfair that whilst the company is still trading, they are unable to use gift cards and vouchers," he said.
  • (14) The results show that in both viral DNAs cleavage occurs at the origin and at one additional site which shows striking sequence homology with the origin region.
  • (15) He campaigned for a no vote and won handsomely, backed by more than 61%, before performing a striking U-turn on Thursday night, re-tabling the same austerity terms he had campaigned to defeat and which the voters rejected.
  • (16) The most striking homology was to yeast SEC7 in the central domain of the gene (57% identical over 466 bp) and also the protein level (42% identical amino acids; 39% conserved amino acids).
  • (17) Figures from 228 organisations, of which 154 are acute hospital trusts, show that 2,077 inpatient procedures have been cancelled due to the two-day strike alongside 3,187 day case operations and procedures.
  • (18) Striking features were non-atherosclerotic stenosis with negative Sudan III, seen in the ICA less than 200 mu in diameter of almost all the hearts of stages II and III rabbits.
  • (19) The military is not being honest about the number of men on strike: most of us are refusing to eat.
  • (20) The most striking differences were observed on the factors: Psychopathic deviation, Mania, Schizophrenia greater than controls and social introversion lower than controls.