What does emerge mean?

Definitions for emerge
ɪˈmɜrdʒemerge

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. emergeverb

    come out into view, as from concealment

    "Suddenly, the proprietor emerged from his office"

  2. issue, emerge, come out, come forth, go forth, egressverb

    come out of

    "Water issued from the hole in the wall"; "The words seemed to come out by themselves"

  3. emergeverb

    become known or apparent

    "Some nice results emerged from the study"

  4. emergeverb

    come up to the surface of or rise

    "He felt new emotions emerge"

  5. come forth, emergeverb

    happen or occur as a result of something

Wiktionary

  1. emergeverb

    To come into view.

  2. emergeverb

    To come out of a situation, object or a liquid.

  3. emergeverb

    To become known.

    Gradually the truth emerged.

  4. Etymology: From emerger, from emergere, from e-, a variant of ex-, + mergo

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To EMERGEverb

    Etymology: emergo, Latin.

    They emerged, to the upper part of the spirit of wine, as much of them as lay immersed in the spirit. Boyle.

    The mountains emerged, and became dry land again, when the waters, after their violent agitation was abated, retired into the lower places. Thomas Burnet, Theory of the Earth.

    Thetis, not unmindful of her son,
    Emerging from the deep, to beg her boon,
    Pursu’d their track. John Dryden, Homer.

    If the prism was turned about its axis that way, which made the rays emerge more obliquely out of the second refracting surface of the prism, the image soon became an inch or two longer or more. Isaac Newton, Opt.

    Darkness, we see, emerges into light;
    And shining suns descend to sable night. John Dryden, Fables.

    When, from dewy shade emerging bright,
    Aurora streaks the sky with orient light,
    Let each deplore his dead. Alexander Pope, Odyssey, b. iv. l. 470.

    Then from antient gloom emerg’d
    A rising world. James Thomson, Summer, l. 995.

Wikipedia

  1. EMERGE

    The Electronic Medical Records and Genomics Network (abbreviated the eMERGE Network) is a consortium of American medical institutions dedicated to advancing the use of electronic medical records for genomics research. It was established in 2007 and is funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). eMERGE's Administrative Coordinating Center is located at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.eMERGE's first phase, known as eMERGE-I, began after the NHGRI awarded grants to five institutions: Group Health Cooperative, Marshfield Clinic, Mayo Clinic, Northwestern University, and Vanderbilt University. The second phase, eMERGE-II, began in August 2011, involving the same five sites as phase I plus two new ones: the Geisinger Clinic and Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

ChatGPT

  1. emerge

    To emerge is to come forth into view or notice, as from concealment, hiding or obscurity. It can also refer to coming into existence, developing, or rising from an inferior or unseen state or condition. Additionally, in a natural context, it can mean coming out from a source such as a plant emerging from a seed.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Emergeverb

    to rise out of a fluid; to come forth from that in which anything has been plunged, enveloped, or concealed; to issue and appear; as, to emerge from the water or the ocean; the sun emerges from behind the moon in an eclipse; to emerge from poverty or obscurity

  2. Etymology: [L. emergere, emersum; e out + mergere to dip, plunge. See Merge.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Emerge

    e-mėrj′, v.i. to rise out of: to issue or come forth: to reappear after being concealed: to come into view: to result.—ns. Emer′gence, Emer′gency, act of emerging: sudden appearance: an unexpected occurrence: pressing necessity; Emer′gency-man, a man provided for any special service, esp. in Irish evictions, and in saving the crops and other property of men boycotted.—adj. Emer′gent, emerging: suddenly appearing: arising unexpectedly: urgent.—adv. Emer′gently.—n. Emer′sion, act of emerging: (astron.) the reappearance of a heavenly body after being eclipsed by another or by the sun's brightness. [L. emergĕre, emersume, out of, mergĕre, to plunge.]

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  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'emerge' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4322

  2. Verbs Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'emerge' in Verbs Frequency: #273

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of emerge in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of emerge in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of emerge in a Sentence

  1. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov:

    The Syrian sides will have to agree on a new constitution, on how they see the structures needed to ensure a steady transition to a new system, there is an understanding already that a new constitution should emerge as a result of this political process, on the basis of which new, early elections are to be held.

  2. Melinda French Gates:

    I had several dinners with Melinda French Gates, you know, hoping that what Anderson Cooper said about getting billions of philanthropy for global health through contacts that Melinda French Gates had might emerge, when it looked like that wasn't a real thing, that relationship ended.

  3. Sara Pantuliano:

    If we do not emerge from the World Humanitarian Summit with some clear and tangible commitments on how to reshape the aid sector it will never deliver on its ambitions.

  4. The ARES study:

    From a virtually non-existent domestic market, the revolution and its aftermath paved the way for a large illicit arms trade to emerge, many of the players in this new market began to use new technologies to hawk their wares. Online sales via social media platforms are one of the tools currently being used for this purpose.

  5. Gideon Lichfield:

    Every time the industry goes after a new name for something and tries to pivot, something new inevitably comes out of it. It's just not clear yet what it will be, i think one has to be really critical of this tendency and call out what is just marketing and hype, which is a large part of it, whilst remaining open-minded to the fact that something new does emerge.

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