See seem in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "can't seem"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "meseems"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "seeming"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "seemingly"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "seemly"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "seemlihood"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "seemliness"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*sem-"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "root"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "semen",
"t": "to seem, befit, be becoming"
},
"expansion": "Middle English semen (“to seem, befit, be becoming”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "non",
"3": "sœma",
"t": "to conform to, beseem, befit"
},
"expansion": "Old Norse sœma (“to conform to, beseem, befit”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*sōmijaną",
"t": "to unite, fit"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *sōmijaną (“to unite, fit”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*sem-",
"t": "one; whole"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one; whole”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sco",
"2": "seme",
"t": "to be fitting; beseem"
},
"expansion": "Scots seme (“to be fitting; beseem”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "sømme",
"t": "to beseem"
},
"expansion": "Danish sømme (“to beseem”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gmq-osw",
"2": "søma"
},
"expansion": "Old Swedish søma",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fo",
"2": "søma",
"t": "to be proper"
},
"expansion": "Faroese søma (“to be proper”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "non",
"2": "sómi",
"t": "honour"
},
"expansion": "Old Norse sómi (“honour”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "somme",
"t": "decent comportment"
},
"expansion": "Danish somme (“decent comportment”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "non",
"2": "sœmr",
"t": "fitting, seemly"
},
"expansion": "Old Norse sœmr (“fitting, seemly”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "sēman",
"t": "to reconcile, bring an agreement"
},
"expansion": "Old English sēman (“to reconcile, bring an agreement”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "sōm",
"3": "",
"4": "agreement"
},
"expansion": "Old English sōm (“agreement”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English semen (“to seem, befit, be becoming”), from Old Norse sœma (“to conform to, beseem, befit”), from Proto-Germanic *sōmijaną (“to unite, fit”), from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one; whole”). Cognate with Scots seme (“to be fitting; beseem”), Danish sømme (“to beseem”), Old Swedish søma, Faroese søma (“to be proper”). Related also to Old Norse sómi (“honour”) ( > archaic Danish somme (“decent comportment”)), Old Norse sœmr (“fitting, seemly”), Old English sēman (“to reconcile, bring an agreement”), Old English sōm (“agreement”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "seems",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "seeming",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "seemed",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "seemed",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {},
"expansion": "seem (third-person singular simple present seems, present participle seeming, simple past and past participle seemed)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "He seems to be ill. Her eyes seem blue. It must have seemed to her she was safe. How did she seem to you? He seems not to be at home. It seems like rain.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "He is so fair, without any limit; his appearance shows well when he sits on the dais.",
"ref": "15th c., “[The Creation]”, in Wakefield Mystery Plays; Re-edited in George England, Alfred W. Pollard, editors, The Towneley Plays (Early English Text Society Extra Series; LXXI), London: […] Oxford University Press, 1897, →OCLC, page 5:",
"text": "He is so fayre, withoutten les, / he semys full well to sytt on des.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"text": "1813 (14ᵗʰc.), Dante Alighieri, The Vision of Hell as translated by The Rev. H. F. Cary.\nHe, from his face removing the gross air, / Oft his left hand forth stretch'd, and seem'd alone / By that annoyance wearied."
},
{
"ref": "1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:",
"text": "They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.[…].",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:",
"text": "That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:",
"text": "Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2012 August 5, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993)”, in AV Club:",
"text": "So while Ralph generally seems to inhabit a different, more glorious and joyful universe than everyone else here his yearning and heartbreak are eminently relateable. Ralph sometimes appears to be a magically demented sprite who has assumed the form of a boy, but he’s never been more poignantly, nakedly, movingly human than he is here.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as."
],
"id": "en-seem-en-verb-gaz4ER5N",
"links": [
[
"copulative",
"copular verb"
],
[
"appear",
"appear"
],
[
"look",
"look"
],
[
"outwardly",
"outwardly"
],
[
"perceive",
"perceive"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(copulative) To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as."
],
"tags": [
"copulative"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"alt": "(present tense:) يَبْدُو (yabdū)",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "badā",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "بَدَا"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ẓahara",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "ظَهَرَ"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "tʻval",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "թվալ"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "rup",
"lang": "Aromanian",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "par"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "ast",
"lang": "Asturian",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "paecer"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "görünmək"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "eu",
"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "iruditu"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "zdavácca",
"sense": "to appear",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "здава́цца"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "izgleždam",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "изглеждам"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "struvam se",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "струвам се"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "semblar"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "parèixer"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "cic",
"lang": "Chickasaw",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "ahooba"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "cic",
"lang": "Chickasaw",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "chihmi"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "hǎoxiàng",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "好像"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "顯得"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "xiǎnde",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "显得"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "cho",
"lang": "Choctaw",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "ahoba"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "zdát se"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "synes"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "lijken"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "schijnen"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "ŝajni"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "ee",
"lang": "Ewe",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "dze"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "näyttää"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "tuntua"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "vaikuttaa"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "sembler"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "paraître"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "avoir l’air"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "fro",
"lang": "Old French",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "sanbler"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "fro",
"lang": "Old French",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "sembler"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "fro",
"lang": "Old French",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "sambler"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "fro",
"lang": "Old French",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "senbler"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "fur",
"lang": "Friulian",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "parê"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "parecer"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "semellar"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "čans",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "ჩანს"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "scheinen"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "dünken"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "vorkommen"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "got",
"lang": "Gothic",
"roman": "gaumjan",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "𐌲𐌰𐌿𐌼𐌾𐌰𐌽"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "faínomai",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "φαίνομαι"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "phaínomai",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "φαίνομαι"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "dokéō",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "δοκέω"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "eídomai",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "εἴδομαι"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "éoika",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "ἔοικα"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "ht",
"lang": "Haitian Creole",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "sanble"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "nir'á",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "נראה"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "lagnā",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "लगना"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "dikhnā",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "दिखना"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "látszik"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "tűnik"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "verðast"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "semblar"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "ia",
"lang": "Interlingua",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "parer"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "taibhsigh"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "sembrare"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "parere"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "apparire"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "...rashii",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "...らしい"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "...-sō",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "...そう"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "...yō-ni mieru",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "...ように見える"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "hak dooc cie",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "ហាក់ដូចជា"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "boida",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "보이다"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"alt": "~in geot gatda",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "~인 것 같다"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "ckb",
"lang": "Central Kurdish",
"roman": "dyare",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "دیارە"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "ckb",
"lang": "Central Kurdish",
"roman": "wa dyare",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "وا دیارە"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "videor"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "izgleda",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "изгледа"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "se čini",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "се чини"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "ngia"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "semblier"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "pathaître"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "synes"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "paréisser"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "þyncan"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "be nazar residan",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "به نظر رسیدن"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "be nazar âmadan",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "به نظر آمدن"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to appear",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "wydawać się"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to appear",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "wydać się"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to appear",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "zdawać się"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to appear",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "zdać się"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "parecer"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "qu",
"lang": "Quechua",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "rikch'ay"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "părea"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "rm",
"lang": "Romansch",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "parair"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "rm",
"lang": "Romansch",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "pareir"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "rm",
"lang": "Romansch",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "parer"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kazátʹsja",
"sense": "to appear",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "каза́ться"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pokazátʹsja",
"sense": "to appear",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "показа́ться"
},
{
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"etymology_text": "From Middle English semen (“to seem, befit, be becoming”), from Old Norse sœma (“to conform to, beseem, befit”), from Proto-Germanic *sōmijaną (“to unite, fit”), from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one; whole”). Cognate with Scots seme (“to be fitting; beseem”), Danish sømme (“to beseem”), Old Swedish søma, Faroese søma (“to be proper”). Related also to Old Norse sómi (“honour”) ( > archaic Danish somme (“decent comportment”)), Old Norse sœmr (“fitting, seemly”), Old English sēman (“to reconcile, bring an agreement”), Old English sōm (“agreement”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "seems",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "seeming",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "seemed",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "seemed",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "seem (third-person singular simple present seems, present participle seeming, simple past and past participle seemed)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English copulative verbs",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples",
"Middle English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "He seems to be ill. Her eyes seem blue. It must have seemed to her she was safe. How did she seem to you? He seems not to be at home. It seems like rain.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "He is so fair, without any limit; his appearance shows well when he sits on the dais.",
"ref": "15th c., “[The Creation]”, in Wakefield Mystery Plays; Re-edited in George England, Alfred W. Pollard, editors, The Towneley Plays (Early English Text Society Extra Series; LXXI), London: […] Oxford University Press, 1897, →OCLC, page 5:",
"text": "He is so fayre, withoutten les, / he semys full well to sytt on des.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"text": "1813 (14ᵗʰc.), Dante Alighieri, The Vision of Hell as translated by The Rev. H. F. Cary.\nHe, from his face removing the gross air, / Oft his left hand forth stretch'd, and seem'd alone / By that annoyance wearied."
},
{
"ref": "1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:",
"text": "They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.[…].",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:",
"text": "That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:",
"text": "Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2012 August 5, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993)”, in AV Club:",
"text": "So while Ralph generally seems to inhabit a different, more glorious and joyful universe than everyone else here his yearning and heartbreak are eminently relateable. Ralph sometimes appears to be a magically demented sprite who has assumed the form of a boy, but he’s never been more poignantly, nakedly, movingly human than he is here.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as."
],
"links": [
[
"copulative",
"copular verb"
],
[
"appear",
"appear"
],
[
"look",
"look"
],
[
"outwardly",
"outwardly"
],
[
"perceive",
"perceive"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(copulative) To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as."
],
"tags": [
"copulative"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:",
"text": "And all within were pathes and alleies wide,\nWith footing worne, and leading inward farre:\nFaire harbour that them seemes; so in they entred arre.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To befit; to beseem."
],
"links": [
[
"befit",
"befit"
],
[
"beseem",
"beseem"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) To befit; to beseem."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/siːm/"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-seem.ogg",
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/En-us-seem.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-iːm"
},
{
"homophone": "seam"
},
{
"homophone": "seme"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "seme"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"alt": "(present tense:) يَبْدُو (yabdū)",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "badā",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "بَدَا"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ẓahara",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "ظَهَرَ"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "tʻval",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "թվալ"
},
{
"code": "rup",
"lang": "Aromanian",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "par"
},
{
"code": "ast",
"lang": "Asturian",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "paecer"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "görünmək"
},
{
"code": "eu",
"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "iruditu"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "zdavácca",
"sense": "to appear",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "здава́цца"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "izgleždam",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "изглеждам"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "struvam se",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "струвам се"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "semblar"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "parèixer"
},
{
"code": "cic",
"lang": "Chickasaw",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "ahooba"
},
{
"code": "cic",
"lang": "Chickasaw",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "chihmi"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "hǎoxiàng",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "好像"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "顯得"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "xiǎnde",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "显得"
},
{
"code": "cho",
"lang": "Choctaw",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "ahoba"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "zdát se"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "synes"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "lijken"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "schijnen"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "ŝajni"
},
{
"code": "ee",
"lang": "Ewe",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "dze"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "näyttää"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "tuntua"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "vaikuttaa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "sembler"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "paraître"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "avoir l’air"
},
{
"code": "fro",
"lang": "Old French",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "sanbler"
},
{
"code": "fro",
"lang": "Old French",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "sembler"
},
{
"code": "fro",
"lang": "Old French",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "sambler"
},
{
"code": "fro",
"lang": "Old French",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "senbler"
},
{
"code": "fur",
"lang": "Friulian",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "parê"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "parecer"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "semellar"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "čans",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "ჩანს"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "scheinen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "dünken"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "vorkommen"
},
{
"code": "got",
"lang": "Gothic",
"roman": "gaumjan",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "𐌲𐌰𐌿𐌼𐌾𐌰𐌽"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "faínomai",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "φαίνομαι"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "phaínomai",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "φαίνομαι"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "dokéō",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "δοκέω"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "eídomai",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "εἴδομαι"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "éoika",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "ἔοικα"
},
{
"code": "ht",
"lang": "Haitian Creole",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "sanble"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "nir'á",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "נראה"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "lagnā",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "लगना"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "dikhnā",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "दिखना"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "látszik"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "tűnik"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "verðast"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "semblar"
},
{
"code": "ia",
"lang": "Interlingua",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "parer"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "taibhsigh"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "sembrare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "parere"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "apparire"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "...rashii",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "...らしい"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "...-sō",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "...そう"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "...yō-ni mieru",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "...ように見える"
},
{
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "hak dooc cie",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "ហាក់ដូចជា"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "boida",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "보이다"
},
{
"alt": "~in geot gatda",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "~인 것 같다"
},
{
"code": "ckb",
"lang": "Central Kurdish",
"roman": "dyare",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "دیارە"
},
{
"code": "ckb",
"lang": "Central Kurdish",
"roman": "wa dyare",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "وا دیارە"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "videor"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "izgleda",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "изгледа"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "se čini",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "се чини"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "ngia"
},
{
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "semblier"
},
{
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "pathaître"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "synes"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "paréisser"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "þyncan"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "be nazar residan",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "به نظر رسیدن"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "be nazar âmadan",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "به نظر آمدن"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to appear",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "wydawać się"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to appear",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "wydać się"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to appear",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "zdawać się"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to appear",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "zdać się"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "parecer"
},
{
"code": "qu",
"lang": "Quechua",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "rikch'ay"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "părea"
},
{
"code": "rm",
"lang": "Romansch",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "parair"
},
{
"code": "rm",
"lang": "Romansch",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "pareir"
},
{
"code": "rm",
"lang": "Romansch",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "parer"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kazátʹsja",
"sense": "to appear",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "каза́ться"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pokazátʹsja",
"sense": "to appear",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "показа́ться"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sdavátʹsja",
"sense": "to appear",
"tags": [
"colloquial",
"imperfective"
],
"word": "сдава́ться"
},
{
"code": "sat",
"lang": "Santali",
"roman": "ñel",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "ᱧᱮᱞ"
},
{
"code": "sc",
"lang": "Sardinian",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "parrere"
},
{
"code": "sc",
"lang": "Sardinian",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "parri"
},
{
"code": "sc",
"lang": "Sardinian",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "parriri"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "to appear",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "zdať sa"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "zdeti se"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "parecer"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "förefalla"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "verka"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "tyckas"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "synas"
},
{
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "anipiñcu",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "అనిపించు"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "doo mĕuan",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "ดูเหมือน"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "görünmek"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "gözükmek"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "zdavátysja",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "здава́тися"
},
{
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"roman": "lagnā",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "لگنا"
},
{
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"roman": "dikhānā",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "دکھایا"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "có vẻ"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "hình như"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "dường như"
},
{
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "jinön"
},
{
"code": "fy",
"lang": "West Frisian",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "lykje"
},
{
"code": "zza",
"lang": "Zazaki",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "asayen"
}
],
"word": "seem"
}
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