Appearance vs. Feature

Appearancenoun

The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye.

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A thing seen; a phenomenon; an apparition.

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The way something looks; personal presence

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Apparent likeness; the way which something or someone appears to others.

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That which is not substance, essence, hypostasis; the outward reality as opposed to the underlying reality

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The act of appearing in a particular place, or in society, a company, or any proceedings; a coming before the public in a particular character.

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(legal) An instance of someone coming into a court of law to be part of a trial, either in person or represented by an attorney or such like; a court appearance

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(medical) Chiefly used by nurses: the act of defecation by a patient.

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The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye; as, his sudden appearance surprised me.

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A thing seed; a phenomenon; a phase; an apparition; as, an appearance in the sky.

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Personal presence; exhibition of the person; look; aspect; mien.

Appearancenoun

Semblance, or apparent likeness; external show. pl. Outward signs, or circumstances, fitted to make a particular impression or to determine the judgment as to the character of a person or a thing, an act or a state; as, appearances are against him.

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The act of appearing in a particular place, or in society, a company, or any proceedings; a coming before the public in a particular character; as, a person makes his appearance as an historian, an artist, or an orator.

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Probability; likelihood.

Appearancenoun

The coming into court of either of the parties; the being present in court; the coming into court of a party summoned in an action, either by himself or by his attorney, expressed by a formal entry by the proper officer to that effect; the act or proceeding by which a party proceeded against places himself before the court, and submits to its jurisdiction.

Appearancenoun

outward or visible aspect of a person or thing

Appearancenoun

the event of coming into sight

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formal attendance (in court or at a hearing) of a party in an action

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a mental representation;

Appearancenoun

the act of appearing in public view;

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pretending that something is the case in order to make a good impression;

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the way that someone or something looks

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an impression given by someone or something

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an act of performing or participating in a public event

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an act of arriving or becoming visible

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a process of coming into existence or use

Featurenoun

(obsolete) One's structure or make-up: form, shape, bodily proportions.

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An important or main item.

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(media) A long, prominent article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news.

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Any of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.).

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(computing) A beneficial capability of a piece of software.

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The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic.

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(archaeology) Something discerned from physical evidence that helps define, identify, characterize, and interpret an archeological site.

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(engineering) Characteristic forms or shapes of parts. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer, or fillet.

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An individual measurable property or characteristic of a phenomenon being observed.

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(music) The act of being featured in a piece of music.

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(linguistics) The elements into which linguistic units can be broken down.

Featureverb

(transitive) To ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context.

Featureverb

(transitive) To star, to contain.

Featureverb

(intransitive) To appear, to make an appearance.

Featureverb

To have features resembling.

Featurenoun

The make, form, or outward appearance of a person; the whole turn or style of the body; esp., good appearance.

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The make, cast, or appearance of the human face, and especially of any single part of the face; a lineament. (pl.) The face, the countenance.

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The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic; as, one of the features of the landscape.

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A form; a shape.

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a prominent aspect of something;

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the characteristic parts of a person's face: eyes and nose and mouth and chin;

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the principal (full-length) film in a program at a movie theater;

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a special or prominent article in a newspaper or magazine;

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an article of merchandise that is displayed or advertised more than other articles

Featureverb

have as a feature;

Featureverb

wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner;