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[ verb ] appear or become visible; make a showing
Examples "She turned up at the funeral" "I hope the list key is going to surface again" Used in print (Chester G. Starr, The Origins of Greek Civili...)While Protogeometric vases usually turn_up , especially outside Greece proper , together with as_many or more examples of local stamp , these `` non Greek '' patterns had mostly vanished by the later ninth century . Wavy lines , feather like patterns , rosettes of indefinitely floral nature , birds either singly or in stylized rows , animals in solemn frieze bands ( see Plates 11 - 12 ) - all these turned_up in the more developed fabrics as preliminary signs that the potters were broadening their gaze . (Hampton Stone, The Man Who Looked Death...)By the time Felix turned_up it was early afternoon , which , one would think , would be late enough so that by then , except for small children and a_few hardy souls who had not_yet sobered_up , it could have been expected that people would no_longer be having any sort of active interest in the previous night 's noisemakers and paper hats . (Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land....)The word `` church '' which turned_up over_and_over_again among Jubal 's words gave him knotty difficulty ; there was no Martian concept to match it - unless one took `` church '' and `` worship '' and `` God '' and `` congregation '' and many other words and equated them to the totality of the only world he had known during growing waiting & & & then forced the concept back into English in_that phrase which had been rejected ( by each differently ) by Jubal , by Mahmoud , by Digby . |
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[ verb ] bend or lay so that one part covers the other
Examples "fold up the newspaper" "turn up your collar" Used in print (William Maxwell, The Chateau....)Eugene was in his pajamas and dressing_gown , and on his large feet he wore yellow Turkish slippers that turned_up at the toes . |
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[ verb ] discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining
Synonyms Examples "Can you locate your cousins in the Midwest?" "My search turned up nothing" Used in print (Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)Authorities hesitate to quote exact figures , however , believing that any sum they come_up with is only a surface manifestation - turned_up by their inevitably limited policing - of the real loot of the medical racketeer . |
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