Come Up

Definition: Come Up

Come Up

Verb

1. Bring forth, usually something desirable; "The committee came up with some interesting recommendations".

2. Occur; "A slight unpleasantness arose from this discussion".

3. 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".

4. Come to the surface.

5. Originate or come into being; "aquestion arose".

6. Move upward; "The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows".

7. Be mentioned; "These names came up in the discussion".

8. Start running, functioning, or operating, as of lights or power.

9. 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".

10. : come up, of celestial bodies; "The sun also rises": "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..."; "Jupiter ascends".

11. : gather together over time; as of money or other resources; "She had scraped together enough money for college".

12. : gather or bring together; "muster the courage to do something"; "she rallied her intellect"; "Summon all your courage".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Come Up

Arrival

Verb: arrive; get to, come to; come; reach, attain; come up with, come up to; overtake, make, fetch; complete; join, rejoin.

Contraction

Be smaller than, fall short of; not come up to; (be inferior).

Courage

Take courage, muster courage, summon up courage, pluck up courage; nerve oneself, take heart; take heart, pluck up heart of grace; hold up one's head, screw one's courage to the sticking place; come up to scratch; stick to one's guns, standfire, stand against; bear up, bear up against; hold out; (persevere) a.

Defiance

Interjection: do your worst! come if you dare! come on! marry come up! hoity toity

Disapprobation

Interjection: it is too bad! it won't do, it will never do! marry come up! Oh! come! 'sdeath!

Equality

Verb: be equal; Adjective: equal, match,reach, keep pace with, run abreast; come to, amount to, come up to; be on a level with, lie on a level with; balance; cope with; come to the same thing.

Inequality

Verb: be unequal; Adjective: countervail; have the advantage, give the advantage; turn the scale; kick the beam; topple,topple over; overmatch; not come up to.

Inferiority

Verb: be inferior; Adjective: fall short of, come short of; not pass, not come up to; want.

Resentment

Interjection: tantaene animis coelestibus irae ! marry come up! zounds! 'sdeath!

Crosswords: Come Up

Why don't you come up to my place? (On the Town; writing credit: Adolph Green and Betty Comden)

That way we'll miss out on Monday and come up smiling Tuesday morning. (Withnail and I; writing credit: Bruce Robinson.)

You cracked the code ! Six months, and you come up with it out of the blue. (Hollow Man; writing credit: Gary Scott Thompson; Andrew W. Marlowe)

Can we come up and have a look? (Monty Python and the Holy Grail; writing credit: Graham Chapman; John Cleese)

Where did she come up with that? (Trainspotting; writing credit: Irvine Welsh; John Hodge)

How you gonna come up wit something like this, man? (Uh Huh; performing artist: B2K)

And if you come up with the answer (That's The Way Love Is; performing artist: Bobby Darin)

For the club is full of ballers i'ma come up on (Jumpin', Jumpin' (So So Def Remix); performing artist: Destiny's Child)

He come up with a knife and cut off a piece of my ear. (A Boy Named Sue; performing artist: Johnny Cash)

Got the gift to come up with it, (Danger (Been So Long); performing artist: Mystikal)

On the Come Up at the Source Awards (2001)

Come Up Riches (1937)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Come Up and See Me Sometime (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• On the Come Up at the Source Awards (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Big Come Up (reference)

• Creepin' On Ah Come Up (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Arriving at Honolulu, Hawaii, with a jury rudder, circa August 1889. She had come up from Samoa for repair of damage received during the 15-16 March 1889 Apia hurricane. Credit: NAVY.

He grasped the bit of silver and signaled, danger and come up. Credit: Library of Congress.

Housing typical of that afforded agricultural workers on King's Farm near Morrisville, Pennsylvania. These workers are mostly Italians who come up from Philadelphia every summer. Credit: Library of Congress.

Part of a crew of thirty-five migrants who come up in this truck and who stay in the farmhouse in background. It is Sunday and they are going into town for the day. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Chowder having come up to the first floor, Grantaire seized her by the waist and pulled her towards the window with long bursts of laughter.

Many go down into the depths and never come up.

Wonder he come up to us.

Sometimes he would come up unexpectedly on the opposite side of me, having apparently passed directly under the boat.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

In the meantime, biochemical studies have come up with a string of related findings. (references)

The market for skin products not only relies on medical knowledge gained in treating skin cancer, burns, and other dermatological cases, but also stimulates skin researchers to come up with ways to save us from potentially harmful habits. (references)

Business

There is a lot of room for growth, but for now U.S. companies will need to come up with ways to bring down prices. (references)

One of the major stumbling blocks to attempted franchises has been the inability of master franchisees to come up with cash payments for the franchise. (references)

But with their government's support and the existing two vehicle makers, once their capacities come up to a economic scale, they are sure to be the U.S. companies' biggest competitor. (references)

Economic History

Philippines

The BIR is expected to come up with clarificatory rulings on the matter. (references)

Spain

It has come up to be the second largest, after Italy in the year 2001 and from January to March 2001. (references)

Saudi Arabia

There is no standard formula to come up with the mark-up rates for all product lines at different levels of the relatively short distribution chain. (references)

Human Rights

Guatemala

On July 3, the Interior Minister established a Consultative Commission on the National Penitentiary System to analyze the existing system and come up with recommendations for systematic improvements. (references)

Trade

Netherlands

American companies locating in the Netherlands, however, will come up against a complex business culture, in which companies, trade unions, government bodies and industry associations engage in constant and close consultations. (references)

Women

Hong Kong

To address the immediate problem of allocating school places in the fall, the Education Department established an interim appeal mechanism to review individual cases of alleged discrimination and agreed to come up with a new system by the end of the year. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "come up": come up against ♦ come up for action ♦ come up one's expectations ♦ come up to ♦ come up to scratch ♦ come up to smb. ♦ come up to the scratch ♦ come up to the surface ♦ come up to the wrong shop ♦ come up with ♦ come up with alternatives ♦ not come up to ♦ not to come up to one's expectation ♦ To come up ♦ To come up the capstan ♦ To come up the tackle fall ♦ To come up to ♦ To come up with. Additional references.

Albanian

ngjitem (adhere, ascend, climb, climb up, cling, go up, knit, Mount, ride, scale, scramble, stick together, swarm up), dal (appear, arise, beetle, brush off, come into being, come out, creep out, develop, egress, emerge, erupt, exhaust, exit, flow out, get out, get out of, go out, leave, let out, open, run out, sprout, stand out, stick up, turn out, turn up). (various references)

Bulgarian 

качвам се (board, climb, get on, get up, go up, kite, step on), пониквам (come up to the surface, erupt, grow, pullulate, push through, put out, spring up). (various references)

Chinese 

上來 (approach, used after verb to indicate success). (various references)

Czech

zapsat se (check in, enrol, enroll), vyvstat se, vyjít (appear, come off, come out, go out, pan out, turn out), vybìhnout (run out), přijet (arrive, come, draw in, reach, ride up), přijít na pořad jednání, přijít (arrive, come, come in), objevit se (appear, arise, come along, come into being, crop up, develop, emerge, peer, rise up, supervene). (various references)

Dutch

stroken met (answer, answer to, come up to), schrapping (case designed to come up for judgment shortly, suspension, suspension of staff), doorhaling (case designed to come up for judgment shortly), beantwoorden aan (answer, answer to, come up to, correspond to). (various references)

Esperanto

esti konforma al (answer, answer to, come up to). (various references)

Finnish

tulla puheeksi, pulpahtaa (spring, well, well up). (various references)

French

naître, être soulevé. (various references)

German

verhandelt werden (come on), sprießen (burgeon, germinate, spring up, sprout, to sprout), raufkommen (pop up), hochkommen (bubble up), heraufkommen (approach, get aboard, get up, rise), herantreten, heranschafft werden, drankommen, aufziehen (arrange, back, breed, bring up, draw back, draw up, educate, foster, haul up, hoist, hoist up, Josh, kid, lead on, let up, make fun of, march up, mother, Mount, mounting, pull open, pull up, put on, rag, raise, ravel out, razz, rear, set up, slip on, strech, stretch, tease, to razz, to twit, to wind up, twit, uncork, undo, unravel, untie, wind, wind up, zoom out), auftauchen (appear, appearance, arise, bob up, break, crop out, emerge, emersion, figure, materialize, pop up, show up, surface, to appear, to emerge, to turn up, turn up), aufkommen (advent, appear, appearance, arise, be liable, be responsible, bear the costs, birth, come out, crop up, emerge, emergence, get up, landing, revenue, spring up), aufgehen (arise, ascend, be taken up with, become apparent, come off, come out, come undone, come unstitched, dawn, get up, go up, lift, open, open out, open up, opening, Orient, rise, rising, to rise, unfasten, unzip, work out). (various references)

Greek 

προβάλλω (adduce, allege, come into sight, peer, project, propound, put up, show off), εμφανίζομαι (appear, come into view, make one's appearance, set in, show up, turn up). (various references)

Hungarian

felmerül (arisen, arose, crop up, emerge, to arise, to bob up, to crop up, to emerge, to surface), feljön (to come up). (various references)

Indonesian

bangkit (get up, rise, wake, wake up). (various references)

Italian

salire (advance, arise, ascend, climb, flood, get, get on, get up, go, go up, lift, Mount, ride up, rise, to go up), nascere (arise, be born, be due, come, derive, grow, originate, rise, spring up, sprout, start up), montare (assemble, blow up, climb, cover, edit, exaggerate, fit, get big-headed, get on, go up, Mount, mount on, pitch, put together, ride, rise, set, to assemble, whip, whisk). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

及ぶ (to amount to, to befall, to come up to, to happen, to reach). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぎにのぼる (to come up for discussion), およぶ (to amount to, to befall, to come up to, to equal, to extend, to happen to, to match, to reach), のぼる (to add up to, to advance, to arise, to ascend, to be promoted, to climb, to come up, to go to, to go up, to rise, to sail up), か�"がえつく (to come up with, to think of), か�"がえ� す (to begin to think, to come up with a plan, to devise, to invent, to think out), もちあがる (to come up, to happen, to lift, to occur, to turn up). (various references)

Manx

shassoo lesh, goaill toshiaght (begin, break out, breed, commence, dawn, originate, set to, start), cheet neese (ascend). (various references)

Pig Latin

omecay upay

Portuguese

crescer (accrue, billow, bulk, develop, explode, grow, grow up, increase, lengthen, swell, thrive, vegetate, wax), subir (accrue, advance, ascend, aspire, climb, go up, heighten, improve, increase, mount, puff, rise, scale, scramble, steepen, up, uprise). (various references)

Romanian

se ridica (amount, arise, crest, flush, get up, heave, lift, Mount, rise, shoot up, stand, uprise), se pune (go in for), rãsãri (appear, arise, glimpse, peer, rise, spring, sprout). (various references)

Russian 

подойти. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

rasti (go up, grow, outgrow, rise, wax), proniknuti (fathom), pronići, nicati (braird, pullulate, spear, sprout), izvući (abstract, bring out, derive, draw out, extract, get out, tug, wangle), iskrsnuti (appear, crop up, emerge, start up, turn up). (various references)

Spanish

surgir (appear, arise, bob up, break forth, crop up, emerge, intervene, loom, loom up, originate, pop up, surge, turn up), subir (advance, arise, ascend, bump up, carry up, climb, get into, get up, go up, lift, move up, raise, rise, step up, take up, upload, walk up), ser mencionado, ser conocido, salir (absent onself, break, break out, come off, come out, depart, departing, drive away, drive off, emancipate, emerge, exit, get away, get out, get over, go, go away, go off, go on, go out, issue, lead off, leak, leave, leaving, line out, lurch out, march out, pan out, pass out, Pierce, pop out, protrude, pull out, push through, put off, put out, radiate, rise, sail, sail out, set forth, set forward, set out, shoot out, shoot up, stand out, start off, step out, stick out, take away, take off, take out, throw off, to leave, troop, trot along, trot over, trot round, turn up, walk out, wash off), quedar (abide, agree, be situated, come off, drop, fall on, fall upon, jack in, keep, lead off, leave, leave off, leave over, let into, line out, meet, remain, rest, stay, stick around, take away, take from, take off, take out, take up, tear down, throw aside, throw down, throw off, throw over, throw up, trail, trim away, trim off, weaken, wind), mediar (arbitrate, happen, mediate), matricularse (enrol, enroll, enter, matriculate, register), encenderse (blaze up, blush, burn up, catch, catch fire, come on, flare, flare up, get excited, get red, go off, go on, ignite, inflame, kindle, light, strike), aparecer (appear, arrive, come into view, come on, come on the scene, come out, develop, emerge, emersion, intervene, loom, loom up, peep out, peer, perform, roll up, show, show up, to appear, turn up, walk), alzar (cut, decollate, draw up, elevate, foster, get up, hitch up, hoist, hold up, lift, lift up, put up, raise, raise up, razz, rear, set up, sling), acudir (come to the rescue, keep, look to, turn up, vote), acercarse (advance, approach, approximate, bear down upon, come close, come closer, come near, come on, draw near, draw on, go up, pop across, pop by, pop over, pop round, pull up, ride up, verge, verge on), abandonar (abandon, bolt, break, call off, cast away, cede, chuck, clear away, come off, desert, ditch, drop, drop out, flee, forsake, give in, give up, give way, iron out, jack in, lead off, leave, leave over, let into, quit, relinquish, resign, retire, take away, take from, take off, tear down, throw down, throw off, throw over, throw up, toss aside, walk out, walk out on, weaken, withdraw, yield). (various references)

Swedish

uppstå (accrue, arise, come into existence, emerge, originate, rise, start), uppdyka (emerge), komma upp (get out), komma fram (appear, come out, transpire), gå upp (gain, go up, lay, lift, surface), börja (begin, come on, commence, enter upon, fall to, go ahead, initiate, introduce, kick off, lead off, open, set in, settle down to, start). (various references)

Turkish

yaygın olmak (come in, go about, go around, prevail), yaklaşmak (approach, approximate, be pushing, bear down on, close, come close to, come near, come on, converge, draw, draw close, draw near, draw on, get hotter, get warmer, go on for, near, push, step up, verge, walk up, walk up to), tutulmak (attack, attaint, be at a premium, be enamored of, be enamoured of, be held, be in a request, be smitten with, be stuck, be stuck on, be taken, be taken with, catch on, come in, drop, go into, have a crush on smb., incur, indulge, make a hit, smite, stiffen), sokulmak (come close, creep, draw near, edge, edge in, encroach, infiltrate, nestle, nuzzle, penetrate, put oneself forward, sidle, sidle up to, snuggle, worm one's way, wriggle oneself into), mahkemeye çıkmak, londra'ya gelmek, üniversiteye başlamak, çıkmak (ascend, break out, break through, climb, come about, come off, come on, come out, come to a head, crop out, date, date up, detach, drop out, emanate, emerge, erupt, escalate, eventuate, exit, extricate oneself, extrude, flirt, get off, go for, go forth, go off, go out, go together, go with, grow out of, grow up, hatch, have it's source in, issue, jut, jut out, keep company with, knock about, knock around, launch, launch out, move out, occur, originate, peep, peep out, photograph, point, present oneself, prove, puff out, puff up, pull out, pullulate, quit, rise, rub off, rub out, sally forth, sally out, secede, separate, shoot out, spoon, spring, stem, step out, step up, stick, stick out, take it's source from, take out, take to, walk out, walk out of, walk out with, well forth, work out). (various references)

Turkmen 

gцgermek (grow, rise). (various references)

Ukrainian

виникати (accrue, arise, come of, dimple, ensue, pullulate, rise), підійматися (go up, run high). (various references)

emergo, emergo, emersi, emersum, emersi, succrescens, succrescere, succreverit, supervenerant, supervenerat, supervenere, supervenerit, supervenerunt, superveniat, superveniens, supervenient, superveniente, supervenientem, supervenientibus, supervenientis, superveniet, supervenio, supervenire, superveniret, supervenit, superventura. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: coupe.

-2 letters: come, comp, cope, coup, meou, mope, moue, poem, pome, puce.

-3 letters: cep, cop, cue, cum, cup, ecu, emu, moc, mop, ope, pec, pom, ump, upo.

-4 letters: em, me, mo, mu, oe, om, op, pe, um, up.

+1 letter: compute.

+2 letters: computed, computer, computes.

+3 letters: composure, computers, operculum, pneumonic, pomaceous, pumiceous, recompute.

+4 letters: apothecium, compendium, composures, compounded, compounder, compulsive, computable, couplement, decompound, lumpectomy, miscompute, mouthpiece, operculums, outcompete, precompute, procumbent, proscenium, recomputed, recomputes, recoupment, supermacho, supermicro.

+5 letters: champertous, comeuppance, compendious, compendiums, compounders, compulsives, computerdom, computerese, computerise, computerist, computerize, computernik, consumptive, couplements, impecunious, miscomputed, miscomputes, mouthpieces, mucopeptide, mucoprotein, noncomputer, nucleoplasm, outcompeted, outcompetes, pneumococci, precomputed, precomputer, precomputes, proctodaeum, procurement, prosceniums, recomputing, recoupments, supermachos, supermicros, uncompleted.