COME UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does come up mean? 

• COME UP (verb)
  The verb COME UP has 12 senses:

1. bring forth, usually something desirable

2. result or issue

3. move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody

4. come to the surface

5. originate or come into being

6. move upward

7. be mentioned

8. start running, functioning, or operating

9. get something or somebody for a specific purpose

10. come up, of celestial bodies

11. gather (money or other resources) together over time

12. gather or bring together

  Familiarity information: COME UP used as a verb is familiar.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COME UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bring forth, usually something desirable

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Context example:

The committee came up with some interesting recommendations

Hypernyms (to "come up" is one way to...):

bring forth; generate (bring into existence)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Result or issue

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

arise; come up

Context example:

A slight unpleasantness arose from this discussion

Hypernyms (to "come up" is one way to...):

come about; fall out; go on; hap; happen; occur; pass; pass off; take place (come to pass)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "come up"):

open; open up (become available)

come up (be mentioned)

condense (develop due to condensation)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 3

Meaning:

Move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

come; come up

Context example:

come into the room

Hypernyms (to "come up" is one way to...):

go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "come up"):

emanate (proceed or issue forth, as from a source)

accost; address; come up to (speak to someone)

approach; come near (come near in time)

approach; come near; come on; draw close; draw near; go up; near (move towards)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence example:

The children come up to the playground

Sense 4

Meaning:

Come to the surface

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

come up; rise; rise up; surface

Hypernyms (to "come up" is one way to...):

ascend; go up (travel up)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "come up"):

emerge (come up to the surface of or rise)

resurface (reappear on the surface)

bubble up; intumesce (move upwards in bubbles, as from the effect of heating; also used metaphorically)

swell; well (come up, as of a liquid)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Sense 5

Meaning:

Originate or come into being

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

arise; bob up; come up

Context example:

a question arose

Hypernyms (to "come up" is one way to...):

become (come into existence)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 6

Meaning:

Move upward

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

arise; come up; go up; lift; move up; rise; uprise

Context example:

The mist uprose from the meadows

Hypernyms (to "come up" is one way to...):

go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "come up"):

go up (be erected, built, or constructed)

ascend; come up; rise; uprise (come up, of celestial bodies)

steam (rise as vapor)

chandelle (climb suddenly and steeply)

uplift (lift up from the earth, as by geologic forces)

bubble (rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles)

rocket; skyrocket (shoot up abruptly, like a rocket)

soar; soar up; soar upwards; surge; zoom (rise rapidly)

climb; climb up; go up; mount (go upward with gradual or continuous progress)

scend; surge (rise or heave upward under the influence of a natural force such as a wave)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Sense 7

Meaning:

Be mentioned

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Context example:

These names came up in the discussion

Hypernyms (to "come up" is one way to...):

arise; come up (result or issue)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Sense 8

Meaning:

Start running, functioning, or operating

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

come on; come up; go on

Context example:

the computer came up

Hypernyms (to "come up" is one way to...):

get going; go; start (begin or set in motion)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 9

Meaning:

Get something or somebody for a specific purpose

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

come up; find; get hold; line up

Context example:

The chairman got hold of a secretary on Friday night to type the urgent letter

Hypernyms (to "come up" is one way to...):

acquire; get (come into the possession of something concrete or abstract)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s PP

Sense 10

Meaning:

Come up, of celestial bodies

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

ascend; come up; rise; uprise

Context example:

Jupiter ascends

Hypernyms (to "come up" is one way to...):

arise; come up; go up; lift; move up; rise; uprise (move upward)

Domain category:

astronomy; uranology (the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sentence example:

The moon will soon come up

Sense 11

Meaning:

Gather (money or other resources) together over time

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

come up; scrape; scrape up; scratch

Context example:

they scratched a meager living

Hypernyms (to "come up" is one way to...):

accumulate; amass; collect; compile; hoard; pile up; roll up (get or gather together)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "come up"):

nickel-and-dime (accumulate gradually)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP

Sense 12

Meaning:

Gather or bring together

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

come up; muster; muster up; rally; summon

Context example:

Summon all your courage

Hypernyms (to "come up" is one way to...):

collect; garner; gather; pull together (assemble or get together)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP

 Context examples 

Marry come up! if I were Peter the fuller's wife I would teach him better than to give his clothes to the first knave who asks for them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Opportunities will come up very quickly, as the entire month will have a fast pace, so you’ll need to be decisive.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

But you must come up and tack on my patterns all the same.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

They could come up from Australia, anyway.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

For water in the Earth, what goes down must come up.

(Seismic study reveals huge amount of water dragged into Earth’s interior, National Science Foundation)

I don’t think any of our heads would have come up to his shoulder, and I am sure that he could not have measured less than six and a half feet.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the meantime the last of the carriages had come up, and the horses had all been picketed upon the moor.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Because the galaxy does not spin in uniform ways, the researchers had to come up with such a curve to better understand the distances of the galactic objects.

(Researchers Estimate Mass of Milky Way to Be 3.9 Tredecillion Pounds, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Then let Cat-skin come up, said the king: and when she came he said to her, Who are you?

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I heard him come up the stair after midnight.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)