Definitions for come up
come up

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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.

Matched Categories

1. • Arise
   • Ascend
   • Astronomy
   • Become
   • Generate
   • Happen
   • Move
   • Rise
   • Start

How to pronounce come up?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say come up in sign language?

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. John Hyten:

   And if it’s illegal, guess what’s going to happen? I‘m going to say, ‘Mr. President, that’s illegal.’ And guess what he’s going to do? He’s going to say, ‘What would be legal?’ And we’ll come up with options, of a mix of capabilities to respond to whatever the situation is, and that’s the way it works. It’s not that complicated.

2. Robin Krawitz:

   A year after he was prosecuted and punished there was a petition to the state Legislature to come up with a punishment that was more severe because the notorious Samuel Burris was still doing the work in the neighborhood.

3. Scribner Mayor Ken Thomas:

   I have not had one person come up to me and question what's going on.

4. New York:

   The basic point is you know why does the court rule on an issue that is moot unless -- and which they had just decided several months before in other cases which presented the same argument -- why rule on a case that is moot and come up with a different decision than you did several months ago on the same issue ? You have a different court and I think that was the statement that the court was making.

5. Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius:

   To put it diplomatically, we have room for improvement here... When we come up against a foreign tourist, we are all ambassadors for France.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=come up
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Come_Up
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com