Hypertext Webster Gateway: "apparent"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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

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

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

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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