emergee‧merge /ɪˈmɜːdʒ $ -ɜːrdʒ/ ●●○ W2 AWL verb [intransitive] 
The flowers emerge in the spring.emerge from The sun emerged from behind the clouds.2if facts emerge, they become known after being hidden or secret: Eventually the truth emerged.it emerges that Later it emerged that the judge had employed an illegal immigrant.3to come out of a difficult experienceemerge from She emerged from the divorce a stronger person.4to begin to be known or noticed: a religious sect that emerged in the 1830semerge as Local government has recently emerged as a major issue.
WORD ORIGINemerge
Origin:
1500-1600 Latin emergere, from mergere ‘to dive’VERB TABLE
emerge
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | emerge |
| he, she, it | emerges | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | emerged |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have emerged |
| he, she, it | has emerged | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had emerged |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will emerge |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have emerged |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am emerging |
| he, she, it | is emerging | |
| you, we, they | are emerging | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was emerging |
| you, we, they | were emerging | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been emerging |
| he, she, it | has been emerging | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been emerging |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be emerging |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been emerging |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- 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.
- 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.
Longman Language Activatorany one of the people in a group or in the world
to start to be seen or to suddenly be seen: · A face appeared at the window.appear from: · The manager suddenly appeared from his office.appear from behind/under etc: · A spider appeared from under the sofa.· Lois was about to knock when a woman appeared from around the side of the house.appear out of nowhere (=suddenly appear): · The dog appeared out of nowhere and began running alongside me.
to gradually start to be able to be seen - use this when you just start to see something, especially when it looks very small and difficult to see: · We had been on the boat for several hours when I noticed the coastline slowly becoming visible.· As the fog became thinner, the edges of buildings slowly became visible.
if something comes into view/sight , you can see it as you get closer to it or it gets closer to you - use this about things that are far away: · As the station came into sight, the train began to slow down.· Astronomers say that over the next few weeks the comet will be coming into view.
if the sun, the moon, or a star comes out , it appears in the sky: · The moon came out from behind a cloud.· As the sky grew darker, the stars came out one by one.
especially written to come out from a room, building or other enclosed space and start to be seen: emerge from: · 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.· At the airport, people stood behind a metal fence waiting for passengers to emerge from customs.
if a large person or thing looms or looms up , they suddenly appear in a way that makes you feel nervous or frightened, especially in a situation in which you cannot see clearly: · As we rounded the curve, the mountain loomed up in front of us.· They were walking through the alley when a man suddenly loomed out of the shadows.
to appear again after a short time of not being there or not being able to be seen: · Baines went back inside and reappeared a few moments later carrying an umbrella.
when something is found out if something that people knew nothing about comes out , people find out about it, especially as a result of an official inquiry: · The truth about the scandal came out long after he had left office.· A few new facts came out at the trial.it comes out that: · During the hearing it came out that she had tried to commit suicide.
if new information or a new fact comes to light or is brought to light , people find out about it: · Fresh evidence has come to light since the report was published.· Some serious problems have been brought to light by the latest report on health and safety.it comes to light that/it is brought to light that: · It came to light that the CIA knew he was a security risk.
if facts emerge from a meeting or an inquiry, people find out about them: · More details of the plan emerged at yesterday's meeting.it emerges that: · During the court case it emerged that both men had convictions for terrorist offences.
if someone within a government or organization leaks official information, they secretly tell the public or a newspaper about it: · Someone at the Pentagon leaked a letter from the Secretary of Defense.· Information on the merger had been leaked to the press.
if a piece of information gets out , people find out about it even though other people have tried very hard to keep it secret: · If any of this gets out, we'll be in serious trouble.word/news etc gets out: · If word gets out that Jordan is here, we'll be mobbed.it gets out that: · If it gets out that we knew about this, we'll lose all our clients.
formal if it transpires that something is true, people find out that it is true: · It now transpires that the prime minister knew about the deal all along.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Eventually the truth emerged.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES The Nationalists emerged triumphant from the political crisis. He escaped unscathed from the accident. The government was relatively unscathed by the scandal. We were confident that the Allies would emerge victorious (=finally win).COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB
Eventually the truth emerged. (=is reached after talking about something)· No consensus emerged from these discussions.
(=new)· the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe
(=one that is starting to have more industry)· Food shortages are often a problem in developing nations.
(=to become well-known after not being known at all)· Harris received coaching and rose from obscurity to stardom.
(=can be seen when something is studied)· Although the numbers are small, a pattern began to emerge.
(=becomes clear)· No clear picture emerges from the studies.
The Nationalists emerged triumphant from the political crisis. He escaped unscathed from the accident. The government was relatively unscathed by the scandal. We were confident that the Allies would emerge victorious (=finally win).· 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· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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· 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.
WORD FAMILYadjectiveemergentemergingnounemergenceverbemerge
1to appear or come out from somewhere: The flowers emerge in the spring.emerge from The sun emerged from behind the clouds.2if facts emerge, they become known after being hidden or secret: Eventually the truth emerged.it emerges that Later it emerged that the judge had employed an illegal immigrant.3to come out of a difficult experienceemerge from She emerged from the divorce a stronger person.4to begin to be known or noticed: a religious sect that emerged in the 1830semerge as Local government has recently emerged as a major issue.