Meaning of "come up" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF COME UP

come up

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COME UP

Come up is a verb.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb come up in English.

WHAT DOES COME UP MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of come up in the English dictionary

The first definition of come up in the dictionary is to come to a place regarded as higher. Other definition of come up is to rise. Come up is also to begin.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO COME UP

PRESENT

Present

I come up

you come up

he/she/it comes up

we come up

you come up

they come up

Present continuous

I am coming up

you are coming up

he/she/it is coming up

we are coming up

you are coming up

they are coming up

Present perfect

I have come up

you have come up

he/she/it has come up

we have come up

you have come up

they have come up

Present perfect continuous

I have been coming up

you have been coming up

he/she/it has been coming up

we have been coming up

you have been coming up

they have been coming up

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I came up

you came up

he/she/it came up

we came up

you came up

they came up

Past continuous

I was coming up

you were coming up

he/she/it was coming up

we were coming up

you were coming up

they were coming up

Past perfect

I had come up

you had come up

he/she/it had come up

we had come up

you had come up

they had come up

Past perfect continuous

I had been coming up

you had been coming up

he/she/it had been coming up

we had been coming up

you had been coming up

they had been coming up

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will come up

you will come up

he/she/it will come up

we will come up

you will come up

they will come up

Future continuous

I will be coming up

you will be coming up

he/she/it will be coming up

we will be coming up

you will be coming up

they will be coming up

Future perfect

I will have come up

you will have come up

he/she/it will have come up

we will have come up

you will have come up

they will have come up

Future perfect continuous

I will have been coming up

you will have been coming up

he/she/it will have been coming up

we will have been coming up

you will have been coming up

they will have been coming up

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would come up

you would come up

he/she/it would come up

we would come up

you would come up

they would come up

Conditional continuous

I would be coming up

you would be coming up

he/she/it would be coming up

we would be coming up

you would be coming up

they would be coming up

Conditional perfect

I would have come up

you would have come up

he/she/it would have come up

we would have come up

you would have come up

they would have come up

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been coming up

you would have been coming up

he/she/it would have been coming up

we would have been coming up

you would have been coming up

they would have been coming up

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you come up
we let´s come up
you come up

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to come up

Past participle

come up

Present Participle

coming up

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «COME UP»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «come up» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of come up

arise · crop up · happen · occur · turn up

TRANSLATION OF COME UP

Find out the translation of come up to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of come up from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «come up» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 走近
• Translator English - Spanish: acercarse
• English: come up
• Translator English - Hindi: आएं
• Translator English - Arabic: يَقْتَرِبُ
• Translator English - Russian: подходить
• Translator English - Portuguese: surgir
• Translator English - Bengali: আসো
• Translator English - French: monter
• Translator English - Malay: Datang
• Translator English - German: aufkommen
• Translator English - Japanese: 上がる
• Translator English - Korean: 다가가다
• Translator English - Javanese: Teka munggah
• Translator English - Vietnamese: tiến lại
• Translator English - Tamil: மேலே வா
• Translator English - Marathi: वर येतात
• Translator English - Turkish: ortaya çıkmak
• Translator English - Italian: spuntare fuori
• Translator English - Polish: podejść
• Translator English - Ukrainian: підходити
• Translator English - Romanian: a veni
• Translator English - Greek: πλησιάζω
• Translator English - Afrikaans: kom
• Translator English - Swedish: komma upp
• Translator English - Norwegian: komme opp

10 QUOTES WITH «COME UP»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word come up.

1

Namie Amuro

If I don't think about anything, and start with a clean slate, in terms of what I have to do, a lot of different ideas come up, and I can think about things more openly.

2

Evelyn Ashford

Now, I talk to athletes who answer questions with a 'yeah'. I realize I used to do that. Or they answer very quickly and you stand there trying to come up with another question to ask. I've seen both sides and it's been very educational.

3

Lee Atwater

Just keep stirring the pot, you never know what will come up.

4

Lester Bangs

And doing so you can recreate yourself and you can also come up with something that is not only original and creative and artistic, but also maybe even decent, or moral if I can use words like that, or something that's like basically good.

5

Beck

I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction. I've done so many albums where I've been in the studio for 14 hours a day for six months just trying to come up with things on my own. It's a nice change helping other people with their music and not being all about what I'm trying to do myself.

6

David Blunkett

I said it's impossible to have an amnesty without ID cards and a clean database, because you firstly don't have any incentives for people to actually come up front and register, and make themselves available, and secondly you have no means of tracking them.

7

John Bonham

Sometimes you'd come up against a brick wall... or sometimes you go into a fill and you'd know halfway through it was going to be disastrous.

8

Rodney Brooks

So maybe with the research robots that are out there, people will come up with ways to use them to take care of the elderly. And that can help me someday. Because, you know what? I'm heading in that direction.

9

Diablo Cody

I absolutely relate to being alone in squalor, trying to come up with something adequate. I relate to that, and I've been known to crawl out of bed and drink out of a 2-liter bottle of Diet Coke.

10

Miranda Cosgrove

I'm lucky because my two best friends are from kindergarten so they never thought that it was a big deal that I was in acting; they don't even ever talk about it. They still act all confused, like, 'What's going on?' when we go places and people come up to me.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COME UP»

Discover the use of come up in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to come up and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Don't Make Me Come Up There!: Quiet Moments for Busy Moms

Moms will recognize themselves in the pages of this book written for real, everyday mothers who know what it's like to catch vomit with one hand while starting a load of laundry with the other (and never confusing the two!).

Kristen Welch, 2011

On the Come Up

Growing up in the heart of the Atlanta ghetto, siblings DeMarco and Jasmine Winslow have developed a talent for survival.

Travis Hunter, 2011

Come Up and Get Me: An Autobiography of Colonel Joe Kittinger

Kittinger, joined by author Craig Ryan, documents the heights of his extraordinary aeronautical career.

Joe Kittinger, Craig Ryan, 2011

Come Up and See Me Sometime

Thirteen new stories by this up-and-coming short story writer evoke the spirit of Mae West and other liberated women. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Erika Krouse, 2002

The day we saw the sun come up

A boy and his sister watch the sunrise and sunset in the country and at bedtime they learn about the earth's rotation. Preschool - Grade 1.

Alice E. Goudey, 1961

Drawing on the Funny Side of the Brain: How to Come Up with ...

There's a science to coming up with a fresh stream of ideas for cartoons, and this book's complete course shows just how to create comic panels and strips that get laughs, from set-ups right through to the punch lines. 275 illustrations, 75 ...

Christopher Hart, 1998

Come Up And See Me Sometime

In a high-stakes game of love, attraction, and desire, two people playing for all the wrong reasons discover how exciting it can be when plans go deliciously awry, and love is all that matters. Original.

Lucy Monroe, 2005

An Asperger Dictionary of Everyday Expressions: Second Edition

... bottoms up, bring up short, bring up to code, bring up to speed, buck up their ideas, came up, clean up their act, clear up, clued up, come up against a brick wall, come up and see me sometime, come up and see my etchings, come up dry , ...

Ian Stuart-Hamilton, 2006

When I Come Up Missing

Cecelia Mallory. Still not sold on this whole rapture and iven thing? Well, it truly is my prayer t everyone who reads this book will con- lplate these things and keep this book n if you don't believe it. It is my great )e that you would listen to the one ...

Cecelia Mallory, 2011

The Sun Will Still Come Up Tomorrow

Chapter. Six. Troy had spent most of the morning at the sheriff's office where he learned the sheriff was personally investigating Grammy's death. So far, what few leads he had, turned up nothing. By all appearances, her death resulted from a ...

Cherie M. Fields, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COME UP»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term come up is used in the context of the following news items.

Greece gets until Sunday to come up with proposal to stave off …

Frustrated and angered eurozone leaders gave Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras a last-minute chance Tuesday to finally come up with a ... «CBC.ca, Jul 15»

Flipkart to soon come up with better paternity policy

Flipkart recently became the first major ecommerce company to come up with enhanced maternity benefits when it announced an extended ... «Economic Times, Jul 15»

Sea Dogs come up short at Reading

READING, Pa. — The Portland Sea Dogs rallied from four- and five-run deficits Tuesday night but fell short in an 8-6 loss to the Reading Fightin ... «Press Herald, Jul 15»

Greece has till Sunday to come up with a plan, Eurozone warns

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has until Friday to present the proposal, but German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she hoped to have ... «Daily News & Analysis, Jul 15»

Fashion TV branded homes to come up in Lucknow

NEW DELHI: Lucknow based real estate developer New Modern Buildwell has tied up with Paris based International Fashion channel Fashion ... «Economic Times, Jul 15»

Royals come up empty in Lethbridge

LETHBRIDGE, Alberta — The Billings Royals mustered a combined eight hits while being swept by Lethbridge in a Class AA American Legion ... «Billings Gazette, Jul 15»

Just go see 'A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence'

Whatever dumb adjectives I come up with to describe it, writer-director Roy Andersson has made a masterpiece. A series of interconnected ... «Santa Fe Reporter, Jul 15»

The Latest: Juncker: EU Officials Are Prepared for Grexit

Eurozone leaders have given Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras until Sunday to come up with a full proposal at a summit of the 28 European ... «New York Times, Jul 15»

Ashes 2015 betting tips: England to battle hard but ultimately come …

... New Zealand, the new-look England side will attack the Aussies and try to beat them at their own game, but we think they may come up short. «London24, Jul 15»

Khune: Something will come up

"It's part of the game - I guess I just have to be strong with the situation I'm facing right now, but something will come up in the coming weeks.". «Sport24, Jul 15»