Dictionary entry details
• COME UP (verb)
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
Meaning:
Result or issue
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
come up; arise
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"):
condense (develop due to condensation)
open; open up (become available)
come up (be mentioned)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
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 examples:
He came singing down the road / Come with me to the Casbah / come down here! / come out of the closet! / come into the room
Hypernyms (to "come up" is one way to...):
go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "come up"):
approach; come near; come on; draw close; draw near; go up; near (move towards)
approach; come near (come near in time)
accost; address; come up to (speak to someone)
emanate (proceed or issue forth, as from a source)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
Sentence example:
The children come up to the playground
Meaning:
Come to the surface
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
surface; rise up; come up; rise
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
Meaning:
Originate or come into being
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
bob up; arise; come up
Context example:
a question arose
Hypernyms (to "come up" is one way to...):
become (come into existence)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Meaning:
Move upward
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
rise; move up; go up; lift; arise; come up; uprise
Context examples:
The fog lifted / The smoke arose from the forest fire / The mist uprose from the meadows
Hypernyms (to "come up" is one way to...):
go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "come up"):
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)
rocket; skyrocket (shoot up abruptly, like a rocket)
go up (be erected, built, or constructed)
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
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
Meaning:
Start running, functioning, or operating
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
come on; go on; come up
Context examples:
the lights went on / 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
Meaning:
Get something or somebody for a specific purpose
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Synonyms:
get hold; line up; find; come up
Context examples:
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
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
Meaning:
Come up, of celestial bodies
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
uprise; ascend; come up; rise
Context examples:
The sun also rises / The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled... / 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
Meaning:
Gather (money or other resources) together over time
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
scrape up; scrape; scratch; come up
Context examples:
She had scraped together enough money for college / 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
Meaning:
Gather or bring together
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
muster; muster up; summon; rally; come up
Context examples:
muster the courage to do something / she rallied her intellect / 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
