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Come Up| Verb | 1. | come up - bring forth, usually something desirable; "The committee came up with some interesting recommendations"bring forth, generate - bring into existence; "The new manager generated a lot of problems"; "The computer bug generated chaos in the office" | | | 2. | come up - occur; "A slight unpleasantness arose from this discussion"condense - develop due to condensation; "All our planets condensed out of the same material" open up, open - become available; "an opportunity opened up" come up - be mentioned; "These names came up in the discussion" | | | 3. | come up - move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody; "He came singing down the road"; "Come with me to the Casbah"; "come down here!"; "come out of the closet!"; "come into the room"emanate - proceed or issue forth, as from a source; "Water emanates from this hole in the ground" go, locomote, move, travel - change location; move, travel, or proceed; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell" come near, approach - come near in time; "Winter is approaching"; "approaching old age" | | | 4. | come up - come to the surfaceascend, go up - travel up, "We ascended the mountain"; "go up a ladder"; "The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope" emerge - come up to the surface of or rise; "He felt new emotions emerge" bubble up, intumesce - move upwards in bubbles, as from the effect of heating; also used metaphorically; "Gases bubbled up from the earth"; "Marx's ideas have bubbled up in many places in Latin America" well, swell - come up; "Tears well in her eyes" | | | 5. | come up - originate or come into being; "aquestion arose"become - come into existence; "What becomes has duration" | | | 6. | come up - move upward; "The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows"go, locomote, move, travel - change location; move, travel, or proceed; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell" scend, surge - rise or heave upward under the influence of a natural force such as a wave; "the boats surged" climb, climb up, go up, mount - go upward with gradual or continuous progress; "Did you ever climb up the hill behind your house?" go up - be erected, built, or constructed; "New buildings are going up everywhere" uplift - lift up from the earth, as by geologic forces; "the earth's movement uplifted this part of town" chandelle - climb suddenly and steeply; "The airplane chandelled" uprise, ascend, come up, rise - come up, of celestial bodies; "The sun also rises"; "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..."; "Jupiter ascends" | | | 7. | come up - be mentioned; "These names came up in the discussion"come up, arise - occur; "A slight unpleasantness arose from this discussion" | | | 8. | come up - start running, functioning, or operating; "the lights went on"; "the computer came up"get going, start, go - begin or set in motion; "I start at eight in the morning"; "Ready, set, go!" | | | 9. | come up - get something or somebody for a specific purpose; "I found this gadget that will serve as a bottle opener"; "I got hold of these tools to fix our plumbing"; "The chairman got hold of a secretary on Friday night to type the urgent letter"acquire, get - come into the possession of something concrete or abstract; "She got a lot of paintings from her uncle"; "They acquired a new pet"; "Get your results the next day"; "Get permission to take a few days off from work" | | | 10. | come up - come up, of celestial bodies; "The sun also rises"; "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..."; "Jupiter ascends"astronomy, uranology - the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole | | | 11. | come up - gather (money or other resources) together over time; "She had scraped together enough money for college"nickel-and-dime - accumulate gradually; "she nickeled-and-dimed together a small house for her family" | | | 12. | come up - gather or bring together; "muster the courage to do something"; "she rallied her intellect"; "Summon all your courage" | |
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