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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Result or issue
Example:
A slight unpleasantness arose from this discussion
Synonyms:
arise; come up
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "come up" is one way to...):
come about; fall out; go on; hap; happen; occur; pass; pass off; take place (come to pass)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "come up"):
condense (develop due to condensation)
open; open up (become available)
come up (be mentioned)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sense 2
Meaning:
Gather or bring together
Example:
Summon all your courage
Synonyms:
come up; muster; muster up; rally; summon
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "come up" is one way to...):
collect; garner; gather; pull together (assemble or get together)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 3
Meaning:
Gather (money or other resources) together over time
Example:
they scratched a meager living
Synonyms:
come up; scrape; scrape up; scratch
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "come up" is one way to...):
accumulate; amass; collect; compile; hoard; pile up; roll up (get or gather together)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "come up"):
nickel-and-dime (accumulate gradually)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 4
Meaning:
Start running, functioning, or operating
Example:
the computer came up
Synonyms:
come on; come up; go on
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "come up" is one way to...):
get going; go; start (begin or set in motion)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sense 5
Meaning:
Bring forth, usually something desirable
Example:
The committee came up with some interesting recommendations
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Hypernyms (to "come up" is one way to...):
bring forth; generate (bring into existence)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 6
Meaning:
Move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
Example:
come into the room
Synonyms:
come; come up
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "come up" is one way to...):
go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "come up"):
emanate (proceed or issue forth, as from a source)
accost; address; come up to (speak to someone)
approach; come near (come near in time)
approach; come near; come on; draw close; draw near; go up; near (move towards)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
Sentence example:
The children come up to the playground
Sense 7
Meaning:
Move upward
Example:
The mist uprose from the meadows
Synonyms:
arise; come up; go up; lift; move up; rise; uprise
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "come up" is one way to...):
go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "come up"):
ascend; come up; rise; uprise (come up, of celestial bodies)
steam (rise as vapor)
chandelle (climb suddenly and steeply)
uplift (lift up from the earth, as by geologic forces)
bubble (rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles)
rocket; skyrocket (shoot up abruptly, like a rocket)
go up (be erected, built, or constructed)
soar; soar up; soar upwards; surge; zoom (rise rapidly)
climb; climb up; go up; mount (go upward with gradual or continuous progress)
scend; surge (rise or heave upward under the influence of a natural force such as a wave)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Sense 8
Meaning:
Come up, of celestial bodies
Example:
Jupiter ascends
Synonyms:
ascend; come up; rise; uprise
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "come up" is one way to...):
arise; come up; go up; lift; move up; rise; uprise (move upward)
Domain category:
astronomy; uranology (the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sentence example:
The moon will soon come up
Sense 9
Meaning:
Come to the surface
Synonyms:
come up; rise; rise up; surface
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "come up" is one way to...):
ascend; go up (travel up)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "come up"):
emerge (come up to the surface of or rise)
resurface (reappear on the surface)
bubble up; intumesce (move upwards in bubbles, as from the effect of heating; also used metaphorically)
swell; well (come up, as of a liquid)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Sense 10
Meaning:
Get something or somebody for a specific purpose
Example:
The chairman got hold of a secretary on Friday night to type the urgent letter
Synonyms:
come up; find; get hold; line up
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "come up" is one way to...):
acquire; get (come into the possession of something concrete or abstract)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 11
Meaning:
Originate or come into being
Example:
a question arose
Synonyms:
arise; bob up; come up
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "come up" is one way to...):
become (come into existence)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sense 12
Meaning:
Be mentioned
Example:
These names came up in the discussion
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "come up" is one way to...):
arise; come up (result or issue)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Context examples:
“Then come up,” said the carrier to the lazy horse; who came up accordingly.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
If you'll come up one by one, unarmed, I'll engage to clap you all in irons and take you home to a fair trial in England.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I have had some experience of him in other moods, however, and shall be the less surprised when the thunderstorms suddenly come up amidst the sunshine.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Because it is my nearest way from the stable-yard to my own chamber; and why should I not come up it?”
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
But before me: if I, indeed, in any respect come up to your difficult standard?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Also regarded as the father of evolution, Darwin studied these birds to come up with his theory of natural selection.
(Researchers report rapid formation of new bird species in Galápagos islands, Wikinews)
On Saturday I come up to town, and I do not intend to return.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
If these findings are confirmed, scientists will have to adjust the unified model and come up with new ways to explain why some black holes appear hidden.
(NASA's WISE findings poke hole in black hole 'Doughnut' theory, NASA)
And I saw the Russians come up the Yukon in boats, fresh from the sea, many Russians; and I saw Ivan creep forth from where he lay hid and make talk with them.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
“They may rest here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from the south-west, I see.”
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
