to turn up
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3.0
- phrasal verb
- /tɜrn ʌp/
:
encontrar
- A lot of times ideas will turn up while you're doing something else.
- turn up information
- turn up evidence
- a search turned up
A little bird told me that unofficial G sync support might turn up later.
- A little bird told me that unofficial G sync support might turn up later.
- Oh, so the Linux kernel would keep retrying the drive to see if the data turns up, and lo and behold, it would totally uncorrupted.
- And if I, if something turns up not to be on the side of justice, as I understand it, I have to contend with it.
Examples
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They have turned up in our lives in all kinds of places.
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An hour later, your photos of the girls turn up at the house.
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If the initial investigation of the applicant turns up negative information, managers need to check further.
Academic text (2000) -
These objects of carving turn up throughout his stories.
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Treasures from the royal tombs turned up all over the city of Thebes.
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Throughout the twentieth century, however, paleontologists did turn up tantalizing clues that fueled speculation.
Academic text (2002) -
After searching through the old boxes in the attic, we finally turned up some family photos from the 1980s.
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While investigating the reports, the detective turned up a crucial piece of evidence that linked the suspect to the crime.
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If you look hard enough, you might turn up some valuable information in the library archives.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To discover something while looking or by accident
∞
2.1
To learn something you did not know, often by searching or asking
∞
1.0
Find out about something often by chance
∞
1.4
To be seen or arrive at a place
∞
1.0
To try to find something or someone by looking carefully
∞
1.0
To find out about something for the first time, often by chance
∞
2.6
To learn or notice something often by chance
533
2.7
To find the exact place of something, for example a leak or a lost city
357
1.4
To find information about something in a book, list, or online
244
2.6
To find something or someone by chance
171
2.8
To find something by chance
139
2.0
To take something out of the ground by digging
52
3.9
To become known after being hidden
50
2.2
To find something or someone by chance
43
2.7
Find something by chance while doing something else
28
5.8
To dig in the ground to find or remove old objects, often by archaeologists
18
4.2
To dig up something buried in the ground
15
4.9
Find a person or thing by chance
13
6.7
To search carefully to find hidden facts or documents
7
4.9
To find or think of something by chance
5
3.6
To find something by chance
2
5.6
To find something by chance
1
6.3
To become available to someone, often information or documents
1
6.9
Find something after careful searching
Find something after searching carefully
To find something without expecting it while searching
Antonyms
How Revealed
Surface Forms
Morphology
The components 'turn' (move/rotate) and 'up' (toward a higher position or result) give a plausible, partially predictable sense of moving or lifting a collar edge, so a learner who knows both words could approximate the meaning. However, the specific notion of folding an edge and the fact that 'turn up' has several unrelated senses (e.g. appear, increase volume) make the exact sense not fully predictable without exposure.
Etymology
The phrasal verb turn up comes from the simple image of turning something up, like lifting a stone or turning over soil to see what is under it. So, when something 'turns up' it means 'to be found' or 'to be revealed'.