Meaning of word emerge

intransitive verb

1

: to become manifest : become known

2

: to rise from or as if from an enveloping fluid : come out into view

a diver emerging from the water

3

: to rise from an obscure or inferior position or condition

someone must emerge as a leader

4

: to come into being through evolution

Synonyms

Example Sentences



The facts emerged after a lengthy investigation.



Several possible candidates have emerged.



She has emerged as a leading contender in the field.



His war record has emerged as a key issue in the election.



when land first emerged from the sea



The cat emerged from its hiding place behind the couch.



animals emerging from a long period of inactivity

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That’s because the bees sent to pollinate blooming almond orchards took longer than usual to emerge from their hives due to chilly temperatures, wind and rain.


Amy Taxin, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2023





Hypothetical polls of the GOP primary show him earning the second-most support from Republican voters behind only Trump, although his standing slipped after reports began to emerge that the former president would be indicted.


Alex Roarty, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Apr. 2023





Tubbs expresses hope that more cities and counties will embrace the concept as the U.S. continues to emerge from the pandemic and Americans face the scourge of inflation.


Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 10 Apr. 2023





But cracks are starting to emerge in these hegemonic beauty standards.


Qingyue Sun, The Conversation, 10 Apr. 2023





Male Richardson’s ground squirrels emerge from their slumber before the females, driven by an as-yet-unknown internal clock.


John Kelly, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2023





The idea is the same: Bees emerging in spring need food.


Anne Readel, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Apr. 2023





Clues of a breakdown started to emerge years ago.


Carrie Teegardin, ajc, 6 Apr. 2023





Heck, even the lightest elements didn’t really begin to emerge until hundreds of thousands of years after the Big Bang.


Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 5 Apr. 2023



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Word History

Etymology

Latin emergere, from e- + mergere to plunge — more at merge

First Known Use

1563, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

First attested in the late 16th Century. Borrowed from Middle French emerger, from Latin emergere (to rise up or out), from e- (a variant of ex- (out, forth)) + mergere (to dip, to sink)

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (General American) IPA(key): /iˈmɝd͡ʒ/, /ɪˈmɝd͡ʒ/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /iˈmɜːd͡ʒ/, /ɪˈmɜːd͡ʒ/
  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒ
  • Hyphenation: emerge

Verb[edit]

emerge (third-person singular simple present emerges, present participle emerging, simple past and past participle emerged)

  1. (intransitive) To come into view.
    • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

      There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs, [], and all these articles [] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.

    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess[1]:

      The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].

    • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:

      Throughout the 1500s, the populace roiled over a constellation of grievances of which the forest emerged as a key focal point. The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.

    • 2011 November 10, Jeremy Wilson, “England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report”, in Telegraph:

      With such focus from within the footballing community this week on Remembrance Sunday, there was something appropriate about Colchester being the venue for last night’s game. Troops from the garrison town formed a guard of honour for both sets of players, who emerged for the national anthem with poppies proudly stitched into their tracksuit jackets.

  2. (intransitive, copulative) To come out of a situation, object or a liquid.

    He emerged unscathed from the accident.

    The Soviet Union emerged from the ruins of an empire.

    The submarine emerged from the ocean.

    • 2012 March-April, Anna Lena Phillips, “Sneaky Silk Moths”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 172:

      Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.

  3. (intransitive) To become known.

    Gradually the truth emerged.

    • 2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892:

      The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.

Synonyms[edit]

  • (come into view): come forth, forthcome, heave in sight; see also Thesaurus:appear

Derived terms[edit]

  • re-emerge, reemerge

[edit]

  • emergence
  • emergency
  • emergent

Translations[edit]

to come into view

  • Arabic: ظَهَرَ (ar) (ẓahara)
    Moroccan Arabic: بان(bān)
  • Armenian: երեւիլ (hy) (erewil) (Western Armenian), երեւալ (hy) (erewal) (Eastern Armenian)
  • Azerbaijani: yaranmaq, meydana gəlmək, əmələ gəlmək, ortaya çıxmaq, peyda olmaq
  • Bulgarian: появявам се (pojavjavam se)
  • Catalan: emergir (ca)
  • Chinese:
    Cantonese: 出現出现 (ceot1 jin6)
    Mandarin: 出現出现 (zh) (chūxiàn)
  • Czech: objevit se
  • Finnish: ilmestyä (fi), tulla näkyviin, ilmaantua (fi)
  • French: émerger (fr)
  • German: erscheinen (de), auftauchen (de) (coll., fig.)
  • Hebrew: צץ (he) (tsats), התגלה(hitgalá)
  • Hungarian: felmerül (hu)
  • Indonesian: muncul (id)
  • Japanese: 現れる (ja) (あらわれる, arawareru)
  • Latin: emergo, exsisto (la)
  • Portuguese: emergir (pt)
  • Romanian: apărea (ro), emerge (ro) (rare)
  • Russian: появля́ться (ru) impf (pojavljátʹsja), появи́ться (ru) pf (pojavítʹsja), возника́ть (ru) impf (voznikátʹ), возни́кнуть (ru) pf (vozníknutʹ)
  • Scots: kyth
  • Spanish: emerger (es), aparecer (es)
  • Swedish: dyka upp (sv)
  • Ukrainian: з’явля́тися (uk) (zʺjavljátysja), виника́ти (vynykáty)

to come out of

  • Bulgarian: изли́зам (bg) (izlízam)
  • Catalan: emergir (ca), sorgir (ca)
  • Chinese:
    Cantonese: 出嚟 (ceot1 lai4, ceot1 lei4)
    Mandarin: 出來出来 (zh) (chūlái)
  • Danish: opstå
  • Dutch: opduiken (nl)
  • Egyptian: (prj)
  • Esperanto: emerĝi
  • Finnish: selvitä (fi) (of a situation); nousta (fi)
  • French: émerger (fr), sortir (fr)
  • German: herauskommen (de), davonkommen (de) (situation), auftauchen (de) (liquid)
  • Hebrew: צף (he) (tsaf)
  • Hungarian: felmerül (hu), felbukkan (hu)
  • Indonesian: muncul (id), sembul (id)
  • Italian: emergere (it), venire fuori
  • Japanese: 出てくる (ja) (でてくる, dete kuru)
  • Latin: prōdeō (la), ēmergō
  • Middle English: spryngen
  • Portuguese: emergir (pt)
  • Russian: выходи́ть (ru) impf (vyxodítʹ), вы́йти (ru) pf (výjti)
  • Spanish: surgir (es), emerger (es),
  • Tocharian B: lät-
  • Ukrainian: вихо́дити (uk) (vyxódyty)

Noun[edit]

emerge

  1. Alternative spelling of emerg

Anagrams[edit]

  • mergee

Italian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /eˈmɛr.d͡ʒe/
  • Rhymes: -ɛrdʒe
  • Hyphenation: e‧mèr‧ge

Verb[edit]

emerge

  1. third-person singular present indicative of emergere

Anagrams[edit]

  • gemere, megere

Latin[edit]

Verb[edit]

ēmerge

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of ēmergō

Portuguese[edit]

Verb[edit]

emerge

  1. inflection of emergir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From French émerger.

Verb[edit]

a emerge (third-person singular present emerge, past participle emers3rd conj.

  1. to emerge

Conjugation[edit]

Spanish[edit]

Verb[edit]

emerge

  1. inflection of emerger:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Other forms: emerged; emerging; emerges

To emerge means to come out into view or come forth. You might hope to emerge from an epic perming session looking like a beauty queen, but chances are it will just look like you got electrocuted.

From the Latin emergere, meaning to “rise out or up, bring forth, bring to light,” emerge is an intransitive verb that might bring to mind the image of a whale rising up from the depths of the sea, or of a person popping out from a dark corner to spook you. Appear and peep are synonyms, while dip and sink are antonyms.

Definitions of emerge

  1. verb

    come out into view, as from concealment

    “Suddenly, the proprietor
    emerged from his office”

  2. verb

    come up to the surface of or rise

    “He felt new emotions
    emerge

  3. verb

    become known or apparent

    “Some nice results
    emerged from the study”

  4. verb

    happen or occur as a result of something

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появляться, возникать, всплывать, выясняться, вставать, выходить

глагол

- (from) появляться, показываться; выходить (откуда-л.)

the sun emerged from the clouds — солнце вышло из-за облаков

- мор. всплывать, появляться на поверхности

the submarine emerged — подводная лодка всплыла

- выйти, подняться, выбраться

to emerge from poverty [slavery, ignorance] — выйти из нищеты [рабства, выбиться из невежества]
to emerge into notice — заставить себя заметить
he emerged from the ordeal triumphantly — он с честью вышел из этого тяжкого испытания
on emergeing from boyhood he … — едва выйдя из отроческого возраста, он …

- выясняться, явствовать, следовать; выявляться

from this report he emerges as an able administrator — отчёт рисует его как способного администратора; из сообщения явствует, что он способный администратор
from these facts it emerges … — из этих фактов следует …
no new idea emerged during his speech — в своей речи он не предложил ничего нового

- всплывать, возникать, появляться (о вопросе и т. п.)

here emerges the question as to … — тут возникает вопрос относительно …
there emerged a necessity of … — появилась необходимость в …

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Словосочетания

when land first emerged from the sea — когда суша впервые появилась из моря  
animals emerging from a long period of inactivity — животные, выходящие из длительного периода бездействия  
to emerge from a cocoon — выходить из кокона  
to emerge unscathed — выйти сухим из воды  
to emerge from poverty — выйти из нищеты  
to emerge as law — обретать силу закона  
to emerge as the leading contender — стать ведущим претендентом  
emerge from desolation — восстать из руин  
contradictions emerge — возникают противоречия  
difficulties emerge — возникают затруднения; возникают трудности  
emerge as a world power — превратиться в мировую державу; стать мировой державой  
emerge as force — появляться как сила  

Примеры с переводом

Eventually the truth emerged.

В конце концов правда выплыла наружу.

The flowers emerge in the spring.

Цветы появляются весной.

The sun emerged from behind the clouds.

Солнце вышло из-за туч.

What results emerged from your talks?

И каковы результаты ваших бесед?

He felt new emotions emerge.

Он почувствовал появление новых эмоций.

She emerged from the divorce a stronger person.

После развода она стала сильнее.

A hand holding the magic sword emerged from the lake.

Из озера появилась рука с волшебным мечом.

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Возможные однокоренные слова

emergence  — появление, возникновение, выход, выявление, всплытие
emergency  — аварийный, экстренный, непредвиденный, случай, авария, критическое положение
emergent  — выходящий, новый, получивший независимость, неожиданно появляющийся
emerging  — появление
emerged  — появившийся, возникший

Формы слова

verb
I/you/we/they: emerge
he/she/it: emerges
ing ф. (present participle): emerging
2-я ф. (past tense): emerged
3-я ф. (past participle): emerged

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verb (used without object), e·merged, e·merg·ing.

to come forth into view or notice, as from concealment or obscurity: a ghost emerging from the grave; a ship emerging from the fog.

to rise or come forth from or as if from water or other liquid.

to come up or arise, as a question or difficulty.

to come into existence; develop.

to rise, as from an inferior or unfortunate state or condition.

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Origin of emerge

1630–40; <Latin ēmergere to arise out of, equivalent to ē-e-1 + mergere to dive, sink

OTHER WORDS FROM emerge

re·e·merge, verb (used without object), re·e·merged, re·e·merg·ing.un·e·merged, adjective

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH emerge

emerge , immerge

Words nearby emerge

emerald, emerald cut, emerald green, Emerald Isle, emerald moth, emerge, emergence, emergency, emergency boat, emergency brake, emergency medical technician

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What are other ways to say emerge?

To emerge is to come forth into view or notice, as from concealment or obscurity. How is emerge different from emanate and issue? Find out on Thesaurus.com

Words related to emerge

appear, arrive, come up, crop up, develop, loom, materialize, rise, show, surface, turn up, dawn, derive, egress, emanate, flow, gush, issue, originate, proceed

How to use emerge in a sentence

  • TikTok has rejected Microsoft’s acquisition bid, and Oracle emerged as the dark horse partner.

  • While your typical customer journey might depend on your industry and business, chances are good that you can find ways to enhance it with emerging technologies.

  • Slack is emerging as the de facto remote headquarters for millions of knowledge workers around the world.

  • It is true that guidance that originally emerged included recommendations against mask-wearing.

  • To slash emissions affordably, countries around the world—particularly emerging economies with fast-growing energy demand, such as India—will need to make fossil-fuel use cleaner in addition to expanding use of renewables.

  • In conversation, her ideas emerge at a roiling boil that often takes on a momentum of its own.

  • With Big Eyes a lot of people, myself included, were glad to see you emerge from the rabbit hole that is the CG world.

  • But he’s immersing himself, creating the density of felt detail from which fine performances emerge.

  • A cynical old Chicago lawyer once described this as the theory that “out of the clash of lies, truth will emerge.”

  • This fight looks like it will emerge as the major American wildlife campaign of the decade.

  • And out of this thicket, alas, no two people ever emerge hand in hand in concord.

  • Buried, no doubt, in some garret hermitage or studio, they emerge thus weekly to greet silently the passing world.

  • The shrewd, upright county gentleman was beginning to emerge, oddly, from the Apollo.

  • But Roger’s mother was evidently uneasy, as though Daphne might at any moment spring from the floor, or emerge from the walls.

  • To see a white sheet of paper disappear for a moment and then emerge covered with letters was beyond their comprehension.

British Dictionary definitions for emerge


verb (intr often foll by from)

to come up to the surface of or rise from water or other liquid

to come into view, as from concealment or obscurityhe emerged from the cave

(foll by from) to come out (of) or live (through a difficult experience)he emerged from his ordeal with dignity

to become apparentseveral interesting things emerged from the report

Derived forms of emerge

emerging, adjective

Word Origin for emerge

C17: from Latin ēmergere to rise up from, from mergere to dip

Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
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