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Vinony

emerge

verb

  1. exit
  2. come to be seen as
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ɪˈmɜːd͡ʒ/ / /ɪˈmɝd͡ʒ/

noun

Etymology: First attested in the late 16th century. Borrowed from Middle French emerger, from Latin ēmergō (“to rise up or out”), from ē- (a variant of ex- (“out, forth”)) + mergō (“to dip, to sink”)

  1. Alternative spelling of emerg.

verb

Etymology: First attested in the late 16th century. Borrowed from Middle French emerger, from Latin ēmergō (“to rise up or out”), from ē- (a variant of ex- (“out, forth”)) + mergō (“to dip, to sink”)

  1. To come into view.

    “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.”

    “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. […].”

  2. 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.”

  3. To become known.

    “Gradually the truth emerged.”

    “The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason.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.”