appear vs image

appear

verb
  • To bring into view. 

  • To come before the public. 

  • To become visible to the apprehension of the mind; to be known as a subject of observation or comprehension, or as a thing proved; to be obvious or manifest. 

  • To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible. 

  • To stand in presence of some authority, tribunal, or superior person, to answer a charge, plead a cause, etc.; to present oneself as a party or advocate before a court, or as a person to be tried. 

  • To seem; to have a certain semblance; to look. 

image

verb
  • To reflect, mirror. 

  • To create an image of. 

  • To create a complete backup copy of a file system or other entity. 

  • To represent by an image or symbol; to portray. 

noun
  • A statue or idol. 

  • What a function maps to. 

  • A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (See disk image and image copy.) 

  • A form of interference: a weaker "copy" of a strong signal that occurs at a different frequency. 

  • The subset of a codomain comprising those elements that are images of something. 

  • A mental picture of something not real or not present. 

  • A characteristic of a person, group or company etc., style, manner of dress, how one is or wishes to be perceived by others. 

  • An optical or other representation of a real object; a graphic; a picture. 

How often have the words appear and image occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )