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apparent

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明显的,显而易见的;表观,视,外显

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Apparent \Ap*par"ent\, n.
   An heir apparent. [Obs.]

         I'll draw it [the sword] as apparent to the crown.
                                                  --Shak.

Apparent \Ap*par"ent\, a. [F. apparent, L. apparens, -entis, p.
   pr. of apparere. See {Appear}.]
   1. Capable of being seen, or easily seen; open to view;
      visible to the eye; within sight or view.

            The moon . . . apparent queen.        --Milton.

   2. Clear or manifest to the understanding; plain; evident;
      obvious; known; palpable; indubitable.

            It is apparent foul play.             --Shak.

   3. Appearing to the eye or mind (distinguished from, but not
      necessarily opposed to, true or real); seeming; as the
      apparent motion or diameter of the sun.

            To live on terms of civility, and even of apparent
            friendship.                           --Macaulay.

            What Berkeley calls visible magnitude was by
            astronomers called apparent magnitude. --Reid.

   {Apparent horizon}, the circle which in a level plain bounds
      our view, and is formed by the apparent meeting of the
      earth and heavens, as distinguished from the rational
      horizon.

   {Apparent time}. See {Time}.

   {Heir apparent} (Law), one whose to an estate is indefeasible
      if he survives the ancestor; -- in distinction from
      presumptive heir. See {Presumptive}.

   Syn: Visible; distinct; plain; obvious; clear; certain;
        evident; manifest; indubitable; notorious.

资料来源 : WordNet®

apparent
     adj 1: clearly apparent or obvious to the mind or senses; "the
            effects of the drought are apparent to anyone who sees
            the parched fields"; "evident hostility"; "manifest
            disapproval"; "patent advantages"; "made his meaning
            plain"; "it is plain that he is no reactionary"; "in
            plain view" [syn: {evident}, {manifest}, {patent}, {plain}]
     2: appearing as such but not necessarily so; "for all his
        apparent wealth he had no money to pay the rent"; "the
        committee investigated some apparent discrepancies"; "the
        ostensible truth of their theories"; "his seeming honesty"
        [syn: {apparent(a)}, {ostensible}, {seeming(a)}]
     3: readily apparent to the eye; "angry for no apparent reason";
        "had no visible means of support"
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