What does come up mean?

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come up

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. come upverb

    bring forth, usually something desirable

    "The committee came up with some interesting recommendations"

  2. arise, come upverb

    result or issue

    "A slight unpleasantness arose from this discussion"

  3. come, come upverb

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

    "He came singing down the road"; "Come with me to the Casbah"; "come down here!"; "come out of the closet!"; "come into the room"

  4. surface, come up, rise up, riseverb

    come to the surface

  5. arise, come up, bob upverb

    originate or come into being

    "a question arose"

  6. rise, lift, arise, move up, go up, come up, upriseverb

    move upward

    "The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows"

  7. come upverb

    be mentioned

    "These names came up in the discussion"

  8. go on, come up, come onverb

    start running, functioning, or operating

    "the lights went on"; "the computer came up"

  9. line up, get hold, come up, findverb

    get something or somebody for a specific purpose

    "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"

  10. rise, come up, uprise, ascendverb

    come up, of celestial bodies

    "The sun also rises"; "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..."; "Jupiter ascends"

  11. scrape, scrape up, scratch, come upverb

    gather (money or other resources) together over time

    "She had scraped together enough money for college"; "they scratched a meager living"

  12. muster, rally, summon, come up, muster upverb

    gather or bring together

    "muster the courage to do something"; "she rallied her intellect"; "Summon all your courage"

Wiktionary

  1. come upverb

    To appear before a judge or court.

  2. come upverb

    To come towards, to approach.

  3. come upverb

    To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly; to come to attention, present itself.

  4. come upverb

    To begin to feel the effects of a recreational drug.

ChatGPT

  1. come up

    "Come Up" is a versatile phrasal verb in English which generally refers to something appearing or arising unexpectedly or gradually. Depending on the context, it can also mean to approach, originate, rise, or make progress. It can be used in various contexts such as planning a certain event to encountering certain issues or topics in a conversation.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of come up in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of come up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of come up in a Sentence

  1. Buddy Dyer:

    This has been a very severe and unique experience, in the course of my memory anyways, we’ve not had a storm of this sort hit the state of Florida. We thought it was going to come up the east coast and I-95, now maybe it’s going to be an I-75 storm.

  2. Nneka Leiba:

    Even though we've come up with similar results in our guide before, comparing it to the FDA's actual proposed standards is really strong, so the fact that 60 % of the market seemingly wouldn't be considered safe and effective by The FDA is a huge deal.

  3. President Donald Trump:

    Whatever you can humanly do, we're going to have, we're going to fast-track it like you've never seen before, if we come up with a vaccine.

  4. John Wisniewski:

    The Legislature can legislate fire safety provisions, but the preferable option is to let the inspectors and the professionals do an examination of fire scene and come up with their report on the cause and how it spread, let's use that to make a case in the Legislature on why we could probably do better in preventing these types of conflagrations.

  5. Itai Gutman:

    We were curious about being able to come up with the first 'biblical' beer, it's really not the kind of flavor that has a market.


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