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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
emerge
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a consensus emerges (=is reached after talking about something)
▪ No consensus emerged from these discussions.
a developing/emerging nation (=one that is starting to have more industry)
▪ Food shortages are often a problem in developing nations.
a pattern emerges (=can be seen when something is studied)
▪ Although the numbers are small, a pattern began to emerge.
a picture emerges (=becomes clear)
▪ No clear picture emerges from the studies.
an emerging/fledgling democracy (=new)
▪ the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe
emerge victorious (=finally win)
▪ We were confident that the Allies would emerge victorious .
emerged triumphant
▪ The Nationalists emerged triumphant from the political crisis.
escape/emerge unscathed
▪ He escaped unscathed from the accident.
▪ The government was relatively unscathed by the scandal.
rise/emerge from obscurity (=to become well-known after not being known at all)
▪ Harris received coaching and rose from obscurity to stardom.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ She died of cancer at the age of 48, when her suppressed anger and resentment emerged as multiple tumours.
▪ Theological difficulties were emerging as well.
▪ Ministers emerged as tight-lipped as they had entered, shirking the cameras and hurrying away with serious expressions.
▪ From the standpoint of the partial equilibrium analysis of the employment impact, the role of foreign trade emerged as especially important.
▪ In literary theory they emerge as Marxism, phenomenology, existentialism, structuralism, poststructuralism, deconstruction.
▪ Industry bodies have dismissed what has so far emerged as insufficient.
▪ Criminal financial fraud on a vast scale has emerged as threat to the financial health of the community.
▪ The desire of men to claim their children thus emerged as the crucial impulse of civilized life.
■ NOUN
disease
▪ Ensure that the laboratory space, equipment, and supplies needed to address emerging infectious diseases are available.
▪ The public health infrastructure of this country is poorly prepared for the emerging disease problems of a rapidly changing world.
▪ At the same time, our ability to detect, contain, and prevent emerging infectious diseases is in jeopardy.
▪ These specimens may provide sentinel indicators of new pathogens and emerging diseases.
▪ Activities i. Develop, evaluate, and assist in the implementation of guidelines for preventing emerging infectious diseases.
▪ Other activities address the development and implementation of guidelines for preventing emerging infectious diseases and the provision of prevention information.
▪ B.. Develop more effective international surveillance networks for the anticipation, recognition, control, and prevention of emerging infectious diseases.
pattern
▪ The HLA-antigen status of Dupuytren's patients has been recorded, and at least one possible pattern of expression has emerged.
▪ How patterns emerge outside the bounds of cause and effect.
▪ The work of the Community Education Project indicates how a new pattern of education could emerge in sparsely populated areas.
▪ Both are a pattern that emerges from a jumble of interconnected parts.
▪ A similar pattern emerged when subjects were asked to describe picture stories.
▪ The same pattern of trade emerges for all allocation points within the factor price equalization set.
▪ So, although the numbers are small, a pattern emerges.
▪ If unfavorable patterns emerged, we could address them quickly before they had serious consequences.
picture
▪ I personally doubt whether any clear evolutionary picture would emerge if we were to base ourselves simply on Formen.
▪ A similar tax preparation picture emerges at the California state level.
▪ Despite the limitations of the available data, the picture which emerges from this review is complex and interesting.
▪ A contrasting picture emerged from Gen.
▪ At the regional scale a much more varied picture of bus services emerges.
▪ A similar picture emerges in the case of women except that women's earnings at all levels are only two-thirds of men's.
▪ The picture that emerges is one of muddle, intrigue, greed and occasionally altruism.
▪ The picture that began to emerge in the early 1980s was not encouraging.
problem
▪ As problems emerged, building work was switched from one industrial consortium to another.
▪ He notes that whenever earnings problems have emerged, investors have severely punished stocks.
▪ The problem emerged yesterday in the board's report for 1988/9 when it paid record compensation of £69.4 million to 27,752 victims.
▪ With the attainment of concrete operations, the ability to reason logically about and solve conservation problems emerges.
▪ The plan of inquiry Another basic problem that emerges from a discussion of the concept of an ontological existent concerns numerical diversity.
▪ By 8, an age when problems at school often emerge because of increased academic expectations, both groups were remarkably similar.
▪ Particularly during successful long-term participant observation, the borderline between overt and covert recording can become blurred and quite difficult problems emerge.
▪ They prevent problems before they emerge, rather than simply offering services afterward.
study
▪ Three levels of development emerge from these studies.
▪ As praise costs so little, this is a regrettable finding to emerge from studies of parent-child relationships.
▪ That, of course, would increase the odds that the gambling industry will emerge from the federal study without a scratch.
▪ Discussion Two major conclusions emerge from the study.
▪ The same sort of picture emerges from the study of other parts of the country.
▪ The same picture emerges from the study by Halsey etal., as Table 3.2 shows.
▪ I quote from its conclusion: In sum there are certain defining characteristics of the school which emerge from our study.
theme
▪ Now we have a clearer image of the boys' war to destruct things and the theme is emerging already.
▪ The more or less chronological order of the essays allows certain themes to emerge and evolve over time.
▪ A number of interlocking themes emerge from the chapter.
▪ The same theme emerged in other stories he told me.
▪ How do themes emerge, develop, attract popular sociological interest and become acceptable topics of empirical research?
▪ But his fantasy was fragmented; no real plot or theme emerged.
▪ The theme of personal recognition emerges again.
▪ What follows is a summary of the key themes which emerged from the plenary session.
truth
▪ This is typical of the adversarial system - a total approach in which truth emerges from conflict.
▪ Because the truth would emerge as soon as you converted the energy into a different form.
▪ Now that the truth is emerging, would it be too much to expect that our governments help to end the injustice?
▪ He was a keeper and dealer in secrets; it's not surprising the truth about him has emerged only slowly.
▪ But eventually the truth will emerge in areas where now we can only make guesses.
▪ The whole episode had been an education for all, with one revealing truth emerging among many.
▪ It was only a matter of time before the truth emerged.
■ VERB
begin
▪ Some patterns of normal colonic motility have begun to emerge, but specific abnormalities are yet to be defined.
▪ Social relations of cooperation begin to emerge from interactions with peers during preoperational development.
▪ Early in the seventeenth century, moreover, the post of premier commis had begun to emerge.
▪ Commercial galleries had only just begun to emerge and with them a network of critics and collectors.
▪ A typical pattern began to emerge.
▪ I think your work will get overripe unless more poems like this one begin to emerge.
▪ Parents usually notice that biting starts as the first teeth begin to emerge.
▪ Each kind of representation begins to emerge around age 2.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ At the airport, people stood behind a metal fence waiting for passengers to emerge from customs.
▪ Baxter emerged from the building and walked across the parking lot to a waiting car.
▪ Brian, emerging from the bathroom, heard his wife speaking to someone at the front door.
▪ During the court case it emerged that both men had convictions for terrorist offences.
▪ Insects emerge in the spring and start multiplying rapidly.
▪ Marlena Fischer is emerging as a top fundraiser for the charity.
▪ More details of the plan emerged at yesterday's meeting.
▪ New evidence has emerged to contradict earlier claims.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Elsewhere, other models for achieving sustainable policy have emerged in addition to party work.
▪ Ensure that the laboratory space, equipment, and supplies needed to address emerging infectious diseases are available.
▪ How incredible it is that out of many mistakes has emerged an outcome of such value!
▪ In short, more research in consumer buying and behavior in emerging electronic markets is clearly needed.
▪ It was from that programme that the notion of the electron emerged.
▪ Out of the gloom emerge the later paintings, charnel house visions of desolation.
▪ Sometimes this restricted approach seems to emerge from a conscious limitation of political interests.
▪ The work of the Community Education Project indicates how a new pattern of education could emerge in sparsely populated areas.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Emerge

Emerge \E*merge"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Emerged; p. pr. & vb. n. Emerging.] [L. emergere, emersum; e out + mergere to dip, plunge. See Merge.] 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. ``Thetis . . . emerging from the deep.''
--Dryden.

Those who have emerged from very low, some from the lowest, classes of society.
--Burke.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
emerge

1560s, from Middle French émerger and directly from Latin emergere "bring forth, bring to light," intransitively "arise out or up, come forth, come up, come out, rise," from assimilated form of ex- "out" (see ex-) + mergere "to dip, sink" (see merge). The notion is of rising from a liquid by virtue of buoyancy. Related: Emerged; emerging.

Wiktionary
emerge

vb. (label en intransitive) To come into view.

WordNet
emerge

  1. v. come out into view, as from concealment; "Suddenly, the proprietor emerged from his office"

  2. come out of; "Water issued from the hole in the wall"; "The words seemed to come out by themselves" [syn: issue, come out, come forth, go forth, egress]

  3. become known or apparent; "Some nice results emerged from the study"

  4. come up to the surface of or rise; "He felt new emotions emerge"

  5. happen or occur as a result of something [syn: come forth]

Wikipedia
Emerge

Emerge may refer to:

  • Emerge: The Best of Neocolours, the fourth album of Neocolours
  • Emerge Desktop, a Desktop shell replacement for Microsoft Windows
  • Emerge (magazine), a defunct news magazine
  • Emerge Stimulation Drink, a drink sold in UK Supermarkets
  • "Emerge" (song), a song by Fischerspooner
  • emerge IT Ltd, the only UK provider of the Priority ERP database
  • emerge, a command-line tool at the heart of Portage package management system
  • Emerge, a frontend for the diff and diff3 commands for Emacs
  • EMERGE Forum is an initiative by NASSCOM to promote emerging/start-up IT companies in India
Emerge (song)

"Emerge" is an electroclash song and the first single from debut album #1 by Fischerspooner. The song was originally released in 2001 through International DeeJay Gigolo Records and later jointly rereleased in 2002 by Fischerspooner's imprint label FS Studios and Ministry of Sound. In 2003, the song was released again by Fischerspooner's new label Capitol.

Emerge (magazine)

Emerge was a monthly news magazine that was published from 1989 to 2000. Its primary focus was on issues of interest to African Americans. In 2000, Time said Emerge was "the nation's best black newsmagazine for the past seven years" the St. Louis Post-Dispatch described it as "the premier source for intellectual discussion on issues affecting African-Americans", and the New York Amsterdam News wrote that "it had no rival for cutting edge news for and about the Black community". The magazine was headquartered in Washington, D.C.

Usage examples of "emerge".

He was almost convinced that reducing a tree to lumber expunged whatever might be abiding within when he saw the long, hooked tongue emerge from the wall behind the bed.

Paul sat with the pamphlet on the platform, he had been gazing absently at the stalled truck from which the men had emerged.

If it was possible to emerge from the field, it could only be done by an immediate switch to tachyonic drive without accelerative buildup .

She emerged from the oaks, expecting to see Acorn still frozen upon the riverbank.

The hillside, which had appeared to be one slope, was really a succession of undulations, so that the advancing infantry alternately dipped into shelter and emerged into a hail of bullets.

Then gradually three human faces and a ghostly shaped aerophane emerged out of nothingness.

She scrambled through the afterclap of her own wagon and, within a short while, emerged again.

Trade was hampered by widespread piracy, agriculture was so inefficient that the population was never fed adequately, the name exchequer emerged to describe the royal treasury because the officials were so deficient in arithmetic they were forced to use a chequered cloth as a kind of abacus when making calculations.

And at length emerges the little aigrette of silver flowers, the ebony coiffure, the gray silk robe and mauve sash of Mademoiselle Jasmin, my fiancee!

Near the centre of the formation a zone of space the size of a quark warped to an alarming degree as its mass leapt towards infinity, and the first frigate emerged.

Calling this a castle is like calling a puddle on a privy floor a lake, Alayne thought, when the bucket was opened so they might emerge within the waycastle.

Finally it emerged that Albacore was also working on a Beddoes critical biog.

Then came another flash and a second man emerged before the administrator -- short, but with athletic shoulders, hair red as fire, albugo in one eye, a fang in his mouth .

On watch in the fir tree early the third afternoon, Alec saw Stamie emerge though the postern with a large basket on her back and set off into the woods.

To decipher, the clerk begins with the keyletter, runs in along the ciphertext alphabet until he strikes the cipher letter, then follows the column of letters upward until he emerges at the plaintext letter at the top.