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apparence — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • appearance noun The way someone or something looks.
  • drab adj Dull and lacking in colour or interest.
  • guise noun A false or deceptive outward appearance adopted to hide the truth.
  • skin noun The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human.

Senses

apparence is used for these senses in English:

  • appearance (legal) An instance of someone coming into a court of law to be part of a trial, lawsuit or other proceeding, either in person or represented by an attorney or such like; a court appearance
  • drab (by extension) A dull or uninteresting appearance or situation, unremarkable.
  • guise A customary way of speaking or acting; a fashion, a manner, a practice (often used formerly in such phrases as "at his own guise"; that is, in his own fashion, to suit himself.)
  • guise An external appearance in manner or dress; an appropriate indication or expression; a garb; a shape.
  • skin (countable, computing, graphical user interface) A set of resources that modifies the appearance and/or layout of the graphical user interface of a computer program.

appearance — full definition

  1. noun The way someone or something looks.
  2. noun An instance of appearing or showing up somewhere, especially publicly.

drab — full definition

  1. adj Dull and lacking in colour or interest.
  2. noun A dull brownish-yellow or grey colour, or cloth of that colour.

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