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Definition: Emerge |
EmergeVerb1. Come out into view, as from concealment; "Suddenly, the proprietor emerged from his office". 2. Come out of; "Water issued from the hole in the wall"; "The words seemed to come out by themselves". 3. Become known or apparent; "Some nice results emerged from the study". 4. Come up to the surface of or rise, as from water; also used metaphorically: "He felt new emotions emerge". 5. Happen or occur as a result of something. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "emerge" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Note: Emerge \E*merge"\, intransitive verb. [imperative past participle Emerged; present participle verb or noun Emerging.]. (references) |
Synonyms: EmergeSynonyms: come forth (v), come out (v), egress (v), go forth (v), issue (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Continuance in action | Verb: be converted into; become, get, wax; come to, turn to, turn into, evolve into, develop into; turn out, lapse, shift; run into, fall into, pass into, slide into, glide into, grow into, ripen into, open into, resolve itself into, settle into, merge into, emerge as; melt, grow, come round to, mature, mellow; assume the form of, assume the shape of, assume the state of, assume the nature of, assume the character of; illapse; begin a new phase, assume a new phase, undergo a change. |
Egress | Verb: emerge, emanate, issue; egress; go out of, come out of, move out of, pass out of, pour out of, flow out of; pass out of, evacuate. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | But I do know, here today, that the Black Knights will emerge victorius once again (Independence Day; writing credit: Dean Devlin; Roland Emmerich) There's grace in the line and color, but it doesn't emerge pure (Seconds; writing credit: Lewis John Carlino; David Ely) | |
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![]() | Nymph of head louse, Pediculus humanus var capitis, about to emerge from egg. Note missing egg cap. Parasite. Credit: CDC. | The hairs act to increase the levels of sensitivity experienced by the wasp to environmental conditions such as wind direction, moisture, and temperature. Note the individual pores on the exoskeletal surface from which the hairs emerge. Credit: CDC. | |
![]() | Two months after the female loggerhead sea turtles nest on the beaches within Canaveral National Seashore, 80-100 baby sea turtles emerge from each nest and make their way to the ocean. Credit: America's Coastlines. | ![]() | Ridge-till soybeans emerge from warmed ground in the row, surrounded by corn residues from the past year. Credit: Gene Alexander. |
![]() | We pay less for food than citizens of other nations; the United States enjoys the cheapest food in the world. Each year, dozens of improved products and new varieties of fruits, nuts, and vegetables emerge from the laboratories and greenhouses of the Agricultural Research Service. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. | ![]() | Women emerge from the shadows. / WHO photo. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
![]() | Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. This sheet mill worker is charging sheets of steel into the heating furnace, from which they will emerge to be rolled into thin gauge sheets. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "A Dog Watching" by Matthew Maaskant Commentary: "A dog watches to small figures in the distance emerge from a forest. Visit http://www.qr5.com ." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The plan was adopted by DHHS and is revised as new concerns emerge. (references) | |
For other individuals, the symptoms emerge in late adolescence or early adulthood. (references) | ||
Mechanisms that provide a Western scientific explanation for some of the effects of acupuncture are beginning to emerge. (references) | ||
Business | New Asian e-commerce companies will emerge to get a foothold in the market. (references) | |
Cantv’s client base reportedly fell some 2.4 percent last year as the country struggled to emerge from the recession. (references) | ||
Excellent business opportunities are expected to emerge after the proposed medical insurance regulations are implemented. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Korea | Reports of executions, torture, and imprisonment of religious persons in the country continue to emerge. (references) |
Economic History | Uzbekistan | Many agents and distributors are beginning to emerge. (references) |
Kyrgyzstan | They did not emerge as a distinct ethnic group until the 15th century. (references) | |
Human Rights | Korea | One consists of closed camps where conditions are extremely harsh and from which prisoners never emerge. (references) |
Political Economy | Israel | The largest single party to emerge from the 1999 elections was Ehud Barak's centrist One Israel, followed by the Likud. (references) |
Luxembourg | Financial experts expect that although some instruments will disappear due to the tax harmonization, others will emerge. (references) | |
Trade | Ghana | The non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) have yet to emerge as significant players in the financial system. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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John Hartmann | Never, ever. I mean, Phil was a middle child. They're usually more humble and more subdued. And his comedic talents didn't really emerge until high school. |
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Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | We hope that government is now beginning to emerge. |
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| "Emerge" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 69.56% of the time. "Emerge" is used about 1,982 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 69.56% | 1,379 | 5,793 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 29.54% | 585 | 10,828 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.91% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,982 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Emerge Interactive Incorporated |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expression using "emerge": emerge from. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "emerge": re-emerge, soon-to-emerge. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "emerge"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | verskyn (appear, perform). (various references) | |
Albanian | shfaqem (appear, crop up, dawn, develop, peep, peer, pop up, roll up, show up), dukem (appear, appear to be, arise, come into view, feel, manifest, seem, show, show oneself, show up, sound, stand out), dal në shesh (come to light), dal (appear, arise, beetle, brush off, come into being, come out, come up, creep out, develop, egress, 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) | |
Arabic | نشأ (arise, engender, grow), إنبثق (dribble, emanate, jet, spout, spring), ظهر للعيان (elicit, unfold), برز (accentuate, break out, bring out, bulge, come into view, display, excrete, feature, form, germinate, heighten, image, jut, outcrop, outdo, point, project, protrude, raise, relieve, shine, shoot, show up, spring, stand out, stick, stick out). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ставам известен, възниквам (arise, come into being, rise, stir), изниквам (pop up, spring, sprout, turn up), излизам наяве (come out, come to light, out, outcrop, overlap, transpire), излизам на повърхността (outcrop), излизам (add up, blow up, come, come away, come off, come out, exit, get out, get out of, go about, go out, issue, jump, pan out, propound, prove, pull out, rise, run off, sally, set up, shoot out, step off, turn out, walk out, work out), изплувам (re-surface). (various references) | |
Chinese | 涌现 (Emerged, Emerging). (various references) | |
Czech | vyvstat (arise, come into being), vynořit se (appear, arisen, bob up, Debouch, surface), vyjít najevo (appear, come out, come out into the open, transpire, unfold), objevit se (appear, arise, come along, come into being, come up, crop up, develop, peer, rise up, supervene). (various references) | |
Danish | ligge hoejt paa vandet (strongly emerging, to emerge strongly), fremspire (to emerge). (various references) | |
Dutch | opdraven (appear, perform), opdagen (appear, perform). (various references) | |
Esperanto | elmergiĝi, superakviĝi, aperi (appear, perform). (various references) | |
Faeroese | koma (appear, appearance, arrive, come, end up, get, perform). (various references) | |
Farsi | پدیدارشدن , بیرون امدن (Emanate, Exude, Issue, Pullout, Transpire). (various references) | |
Finnish | tulla näkyviin (appear, come into sight, come into view, perform), sukeltautua esiin, nousta upoksista, käydä ilmi (be evident, be seen, transpire), ilmaantua (appear, arise, make one's appearance, turn up). (various references) | |
French | surgir, apparaître. (various references) | |
Frisian | ferskine (appear, perform). (various references) | |
German | auftauchen (appear, appearance, arise, bob up, break, come up, crop out, emersion, figure, materialize, pop up, show up, surface, to appear, to emerge, to turn up, turn up). (various references) | |
Greek | αναδύομαι (surface). (various references) | |
Hebrew | להתגלות (appear, be discovered, be revealed, come to light, outcrop), להתגלגל (happen, roll, roll along, trundle, wheel), להוצר (arise, be created, be established, be formed), לצאת (exit, get out, go, go away, go out, pull out). (various references) | |
Hungarian | elõbukkan, megjelenik (appear, be published, perform, to appear, to come up, to make an appearance, to make one's appearance, to put in an appearance, to roll up, to show up, to turn up, turn out, turn up), kiemelkedik (exceed, to bulk, to emerge, to exceed, to excel, to lift, to loom, to overtop, to stand out in relief), feltûnik (appear, perform, show up, turn up), felszínre jön (come up to the surface), felmerül (arisen, arose, come up, crop up, to arise, to bob up, to crop up, to emerge, to surface), felbukkan (outcrop, to bob up, to crop up, to emerge, to occur, to outcrop, turn up). (various references) | |
Icelandic | koma í ljós (appear, perform). (various references) | |
Indonesian | timbul (arise), muncul (emergent), menyingsing (appear, break), bangun (afoot, arise, awake, get up). (various references) | |
Irish | taispeÚin (appear, perform), taibhsigh (appear, perform), nocht (appear, perform), lÚithrigh (appear, perform). (various references) | |
Italian | apparire (appear, dawn, look, manifest, perform, pop up, show). (various references) | |
Korean | 나오십시요. (various references) | |
Manx | faagail ny yei (hand on, leave behind, outdistance, outmode), cheet rish (appear, appearance, come out, crop up), cheet magh (appearance, budding, come out, issuing), cheet ass. (various references) | |
Norwegian | dukke opp. (various references) | |
Papiamen | aparesé (appear, perform). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | emergeay.(various references) | |
Polish | pojawiać się (appear, perform). (various references) | |
Portuguese | aparecer (appear, be published, come on, come to light, hang out, perform, rise, show, show up, to appear, turn up). (various references) | |
Romanian | se ivi (appear, arise, break, come, come to light, crop up, dawn, loom, offer, peep, peer, perform, present, spring). (various references) | |
Russian | возникать (arise, arisen, arises, arose, come into being, come into existence, come up, emerging, pullulate, start up). (various references) | |
Scottish | coimhead (appear, consider, deem, look, looking, observing, perform, regard, view, watch, watching). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | iskrsnuti (appear, come up, crop up, start up, turn up). (various references) | |
Spanish | aparecer (appear, arrive, come into view, come on, come on the scene, come out, come up, develop, emersion, intervene, loom, loom up, peep out, peer, perform, roll up, show, show up, to appear, turn up, walk), emerger (appear, surface). (various references) | |
Swedish | dyka upp (crop up, loom, materialize, present oneself, rise, turn up). (various references) | |
Thai | เป็นที่รู้จัก, ปรากฏออกมา. (various references) | |
Turkish | yücelmek (sublime), su yüzüne çıkmak, ortaya çıkmak (appear, approve oneself, arise, burst, come along, come forward, come in sight, come in view, come into the open, come out, crop out, crop up, debouch, fall out, occur, offer, outcrop, shape, show up, spawn, spring, surface, turn up), gün ışığına çıkmak, doğmak (arise, arrive, be born, begin, break through, come about, emanate, ensue, grow out of, rise, spring), çıkmak (ascend, break out, break through, climb, come about, come off, come on, come out, come to a head, come up, crop out, date, date up, detach, drop out, emanate, 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 | sekmek (appear), peяda bolmak. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | спливати, з'ясовуватися, з'являтися (appear, arise, come, dawn, ghost, make an appearance, present oneself, show up, walk). (various references) | |
Yucatec | hook'ol (appear, perform). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | apparere, comparere, emergebant, emergere, emerserunt, exeam, exeamus, exeant, exeas, exeat, exeatis, exeunt, exeunte, exeuntem, exeuntes, exeunti, exeuntibus, exi, exibimus, exibis, exibit, exibitis, exibunt, exiebant, exiebat, exiens, exient, exientes, exierant, exieras, exierat, exierint, exieris, exierit, exieritis, exierunt, exies, exiet, exiit, exire, exirent, exires, exiret, exissent, exisset, existi, existis, exit, exite, exitu, exitum, exitus, exivi, exivit. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "emerge": emerged, emergence, emergences, emergencies, emergency, emergent, emergents, emerges. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "emerge": demerge, reemerge, remerge. (additional references) | |
Words containing "emerge": demerged, demerger, demergered, demergering, demergers, demerges, nonemergencies, nonemergency, postemergence, postemergency, preemergence, preemergent, premerger, reemerged, reemergence, reemergences, reemerges, remerged, remerges. (additional references) | |
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"Emerge" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Amegee, amerge, Amerigo, eegre, eeurgh, Ekenge, Emberg, Emberley, emegry, emere, emerg, emergen, emergig, emergo, emerse, emirge, emirgre, emmerg, emmerge, emmerse, emprego, Enberg, energ, energe, Energen, energey, euere, everge. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "emerge" (pronounced i'mer"j or ē"merj) |
| 3 | -m er" j | merge, reemerge, submerge. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-g-m-r" | |
-1 letter: emeer, merge. | |
-2 letters: eger, germ, gree, mere. | |
-3 letters: eme, ere, erg, gee, gem, meg, ree, reg, rem. | |
-4 letters: em, er, me, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-g-m-r" | |
+1 letter: demerge, emerged, emerges, remerge. | |
+2 letters: degermed, demerged, demerger, demerges, emergent, geometer, germfree, merengue, mergence, meterage, reemerge, remerged, remerges. | |
+3 letters: agreement, demergers, emergence, emergency, emergents, ergometer, geometers, menagerie, merengues, mergences, messenger, meterages, premerger, redeeming, reemerged, reemerges, remeeting. | |
+4 letters: agreements, demergered, emergences, ergometers, gamekeeper, geometries, geometrise, geometrize, meagerness, menageries, messengers, reemerging, refugeeism, regimented. | |
+5 letters: coredeeming, demergering, derangement, emergencies, engorgement, enlargement, gamekeepers, gendarmerie, geometrised, geometrises, geometrized, geometrizes, greenmailed, greenmailer, lammergeier, lammergeyer, legerdemain, meshuggener, millidegree, preemergent, reemergence, refugeeisms, remembering, retempering, submergence, telegrammed. | |
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