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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Appear or become visible; make a showing
Example:
I hope the list key is going to surface again
Synonyms:
come on; come out; show up; surface; turn up
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "turn up" is one way to...):
appear (come into sight or view)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 2
Meaning:
Bend or lay so that one part covers the other
Example:
turn up your collar
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "turn up" is one way to...):
change surface (undergo or cause to undergo a change in the surface)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "turn up"):
pleat; plicate (fold into pleats)
crease; furrow; wrinkle (make wrinkled or creased)
crease; crinkle; crisp; ruckle; scrunch; scrunch up; wrinkle (make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; 'crisp' is archaic)
corrugate (fold into ridges)
pleat; ruffle (pleat or gather into a ruffle)
tuck (make a tuck or several folds in)
crimp; pinch (make ridges into by pinching together)
cross (fold so as to resemble a cross)
collapse (fold or close up)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
turnup (the lap consisting of a turned-back hem encircling the end of the sleeve or leg)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Find by digging in the ground
Example:
I dug up an old box in the garden
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "turn up" is one way to...):
obtain (come into possession of)
Verb group:
locate; turn up (discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "turn up"):
nuzzle (dig out with the snout)
disinter; exhume (dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sense 4
Meaning:
Discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining
Example:
My search turned up nothing
Synonyms:
locate; turn up
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "turn up" is one way to...):
find; regain (come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost)
Verb group:
dig up; excavate; turn up (find by digging in the ground)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "turn up"):
unearth (bring to light)
nail; pinpoint (locate exactly)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP
Sense 5
Meaning:
Be shown or be found to be
Example:
She turned up HIV positive
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "turn up" is one way to...):
be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "turn up"):
ensue; result (issue or terminate (in a specified way, state, etc.); end)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s Adjective/Noun
Somebody ----s Adjective
Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE
It ----s that CLAUSE
Context examples:
The proposition I originally submitted, was twelve, eighteen, and twenty-four; but I am apprehensive that such an arrangement might not allow sufficient time for the requisite amount of—Something—to turn up.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Harriet turned away; but Emma could receive him with the usual smile, and her quick eye soon discerned in his the consciousness of having made a push—of having thrown a die; and she imagined he was come to see how it might turn up.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
"I forgot that English people rather turn up their noses at governesses and don't treat them as we do," said Meg, looking after the retreating figure with an annoyed expression.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Walking along the street, reflecting upon the probability of something turning up (of which I am at present rather sanguine), I find a young but valued friend turn up, who is connected with the most eventful period of my life; I may say, with the turning-point of my existence.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
She knew that little Ted would turn up again in time, safe and rosy, dirty and serene, and she always received him back with a hearty welcome, for Jo loved her babies tenderly.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
You are no stranger to the fact, that there have been periods of my life, when it has been requisite that I should pause, until certain expected events should turn up; when it has been necessary that I should fall back, before making what I trust I shall not be accused of presumption in terming—a spring.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Jo was in her element that day, and rushed about, with her gown pinned up, and her hat anywhere but on her head, and her baby tucked under her arm, ready for any lively adventure which might turn up.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I entertain the conviction, my dear madam, said Mr. Micawber, that it is, under existing circumstances, the land, the only land, for myself and family; and that something of an extraordinary nature will turn up on that shore.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I could not receive it as a gift, said Mr. Micawber, full of fire and animation, but if a sufficient sum could be advanced, say at five per cent interest, per annum, upon my personal liability—say my notes of hand, at twelve, eighteen, and twenty-four months, respectively, to allow time for something to turn up—
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
