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Come up   /kəm əp/   Listen
Come up

verb
1.
Bring forth, usually something desirable.
2.
Result or issue.  Synonym: arise.
3.
Move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody.  Synonym: come.  "Come with me to the Casbah" , "Come down here!" , "Come out of the closet!" , "Come into the room"
4.
Come to the surface.  Synonyms: rise, rise up, surface.
5.
Originate or come into being.  Synonyms: arise, bob up.
6.
Move upward.  Synonyms: arise, go up, lift, move up, rise, uprise.  "The smoke arose from the forest fire" , "The mist uprose from the meadows"
7.
Be mentioned.
8.
Start running, functioning, or operating.  Synonyms: come on, go on.  "The computer came up"
9.
Get something or somebody for a specific purpose.  Synonyms: find, get hold, line up.  "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.
Come up, of celestial bodies.  Synonyms: ascend, rise, uprise.  "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..." , "Jupiter ascends"
11.
Gather (money or other resources) together over time.  Synonyms: scrape, scrape up, scratch.  "They scratched a meager living"
12.
Gather or bring together.  Synonyms: muster, muster up, rally, summon.  "She rallied her intellect" , "Summon all your courage"



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"Come up" Quotes from Famous Books



... had any right to look for my husband's return, I one day received a message inviting me to come up to the new house. We all went in a body, for we had purposely stayed away a few days, expecting this summons, of which we ...
— Wau-bun - The Early Day in the Northwest • Juliette Augusta Magill Kinzie
... but if he turn to the sound side, or if he rises and bends forward, he brings up large quantities of bronchial secretion. The expectoration is characterized by its abundance and manner of expulsion. Where the dilatation is of the saccular variety, it may come up in such quantities and with so much suddenness as to gush from the mouth. It is very commonly foetid, as it is retained and decomposed in situ. Dyspnoea and haemoptysis occasionally occur, but are by no means the rule. If pyrexia is present, it is ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 - "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" • Various
... is about as light here as on the Ridge. Well, I reckon they'll come up before the rains. Good-night." Mr. McClosky took the hand that his host mechanically extended, shook it gravely, ...
— Tales of the Argonauts • Bret Harte
... not come up to the Englishman's ideal of a pheasant. The bushy tail causes it to look rather like a product of the farmyard. The cock is over two feet in length, the hen is five inches shorter. The plumage of the former is dark brown, tinged with blue, each feather ...
— Birds of the Indian Hills • Douglas Dewar
... to sea in an iron pot? What space and elbow-room can be found for quarter-deck dignity in the cramped lookout of the Monitor, or even in the twenty-feet diameter of her cheese-box? All the pomp and splendor of naval warfare are gone by. Henceforth there must come up a race of enginemen and smoke-blackened cannoneers, who will hammer away at their enemies under the direction of a single pair of eyes; and even heroism— so deadly a gripe is Science laying on our noble possibilities—will become a quality of very minor importance, when its possessor cannot break ...
— Sketches and Studies • Nathaniel Hawthorne


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