Dictionary entry details
• TURN UP (verb)
Meaning:
Appear or become visible; make a showing
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
come on; come out; show up; turn up; surface
Context examples:
She turned up at the funeral / I hope the list key is going to surface again
Hypernyms (to "turn up" is one way to...):
appear (come into sight or view)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
Meaning:
Bend or lay so that one part covers the other
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
fold; fold up; turn up
Context examples:
fold up the newspaper / turn up your collar
Hypernyms (to "turn up" is one way to...):
change surface (undergo or cause to undergo a change in the surface)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "turn up"):
pleat; plicate (fold into pleats,)
collapse (fold or close up)
cross (fold so as to resemble a cross)
crimp; pinch (make ridges into by pinching together)
tuck (make a tuck or several folds in)
pleat; ruffle (pleat or gather into a ruffle)
corrugate (fold into ridges)
crease; crinkle; crisp; ruckle; scrunch; scrunch up; wrinkle (make wrinkles or creases into a smooth surface)
crease; furrow; wrinkle (make wrinkled or creased)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Synonyms:
locate; turn up
Context examples:
Can you locate your cousins in the Midwest? / My search turned up nothing
Hypernyms (to "turn up" is one way to...):
find; regain (come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "turn up"):
unearth (bring to light)
nail; pinpoint (locate exactly)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP
Meaning:
Be shown or be found to be
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
prove; turn out; turn up
Context examples:
She proved to be right / The medicine turned out to save her life / She turned up HIV positive
Hypernyms (to "turn up" is one way to...):
be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "turn up"):
ensue; result (issue or terminate (in a specified way, state, etc.); end)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s Adjective/Noun
Somebody ----s Adjective
Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE
It ----s that CLAUSE
Meaning:
Find by digging in the ground
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
dig up; excavate; turn up
Context example:
I dug up an old box in the garden
Hypernyms (to "turn up" is one way to...):
obtain (come into possession of)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "turn up"):
disinter; exhume (dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies)
nuzzle (dig out with the snout)
grub out; grub up (dig up)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
