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Emerge

Definition: Emerge

Emerge

Verb

1. 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: Emerge

Synonyms: come forth (v), come out (v), egress (v), go forth (v), issue (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Emerge

ContextSynonyms 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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Crosswords: Emerge

English words defined with "emerge": black gum, break, burstdebouchEmergedfalsely, Fresnel's rhombhatch, Hypnocystingrown hairMexican standoff, mouth, multiple personalityNyssa sylvaticaoral cavity, oral fissurepepperidge, Phoenixradiate, redeye, Reemerge, rima orissour gum, Spinal accessory nerves, split personality. (references)
Specialty definitions using "emerge": ALMOND-BLANCHER OPERATORBRINE-TANK-SEPARATOR OPERATOR, bubblesCentral Cord Syndrome, chromatograph, COILER, coiler operator, contracted orifice, cooker, chip, Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, Cough, Criesdecorator, handENROBING-MACHINE CORDERFog, FURNACE HELPERMalpighian Tubules, maximum evaporation ratenonlinear optical loop mirror, NUT CHOPPERpotato-chip cooker machine, POTATO-CHIP FRIERscrap-filler-cigar roller, machine, shredded-filler cigar-maker, machine, shredded-filler-machine wrapper-layer, slitting-machine coiler, soft-work-cigar-machine operatorVENEER DRIER, veneer-drier tailerWRAPPER-LAYER-AND-EXAMINER, SOFT WORK. (references)
Etymologies containing "emerge": Emersed. (references)

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Modern Usage: Emerge

DomainUsage

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)

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

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Commercial Usage: Emerge

DomainTitle

References

  • Emerge Interactive Incorporated: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Careers Without College: Actor, Child Care Worker, Correction Officer Crime Lab Technician, Customer Service Representative, Dental Hygienist, emerge (reference)

  • Choosing to Emerge As Readers and Writers: A Multicultural Reader (reference)

  • Emerge and See the State of Emergency (reference)

  • European Appliance Server Market Slows in 1Q01 But MFAs Emerge as Growth Segment [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  • Payment Alternatives Emerge for Wireless Downloads [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

High Tech

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

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Image Slideshow: Emerge

Photos:
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Photo Album: Emerge

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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.

  

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

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Digital Photo Gallery: Emerge
 

"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.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Emerge

SubjectTopicQuote

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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Spoken Usage: Emerge

SpeakerPhrase(s)

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.

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

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Speeches: Emerge

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Lyndon B. Johnson

1963-1969We hope that government is now beginning to emerge.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Emerge

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)69.56%1,3795,793
Lexical Verb (base form)29.54%58510,828
Noun (singular)0.91%1882,615
                    Total100.00%1,982N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Emerge

CountryName
USA

Emerge Interactive Incorporated

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Emerge

Expression using "emerge": emerge from. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "emerge": re-emerge, soon-to-emerge.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Emerge

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

emerge

242

emerge fischerspooner

4

card emerge master

211

card emerge services

4

card credit emerge

49

emerge lyrics

3

emerge magazine

15

download emerge

3

emerge ministry

12

best emerge magazine

3

card emerge

11

emerge interactive inc

3

emerge credit

10

card company credit emerge

3

emerge interactive

9

bankruptcy emerge enron

2

emerge visa

8

commercialization emerge technology

2

emerge pvn

7

card customer emerge master service

2

emerge salon

6

card credit emerge services

2

bank emerge

6

card emerge master providian

2

emerge salon spa

6

emerge mastercard.com

2

emerge providian

5

emerge technology

2

emerge fischerspooner lyrics

4

card emerge visa

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Emerge

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.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Emerge

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 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.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Emerge

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)


Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "Emerge"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "emerge" (pronounced i'mer"j or ē"merj)
3-m er" jmerge, reemerge, submerge.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Emerge

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.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Quotations: Non-fiction
10. Quotations: Spoken
11. Quotations: Speeches
12. Usage Frequency
13. Names: Company Usage
14. Expressions
15. Expressions: Internet
16. Translations: Modern
17. Translations: Ancient
18. Derivations
19. Rhymes
20. Anagrams
21. Bibliography


  

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