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单词 emergence
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emergencen.

Brit. /ᵻˈməːdʒ(ə)ns/, U.S. /əˈmərdʒəns/, /iˈmərdʒəns/
Etymology: < late Latin ēmergentia, < ēmergĕre to emerge v.1
1. The rising (of a submerged body) out of the water.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > [noun] > of submerged body
emergency1646
emersion1667
emergence1833
1833 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. III. 113 The waves..continue their denuding action during the emergence of these islands.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. 400 A well-wetted oar..on its first emergence from the water.
1875 J. Croll Climate & Time xxiii. 368 The..emergence of the land during the glacial epoch.
2.
a. The process of coming forth, issuing from concealment, obscurity, or confinement. literal and figurative. (Cf. emerge v.1 3a, 4.) Also said of the result of an evolutionary process: cf. emerge v.1 4 and emergent n. 3.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [noun] > from concealment, confinement, or obscurity
coming out?c1425
breaking-out1552
emergency1647
emergence1755
emerging1813
society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > [noun] > process of becoming
emergency1647
emergence1755
emersion1763
emerging1813
transpiration1827
transpiry1884
the world > life > biology > biological processes > evolution > [noun]
development1830
evolution1832
descent1859
genealogy1880
emergence1911
1755 H. Brooke Universal Beauty i. 10 From the deep thy [Venus'] bright emergence sprung.
1779 S. Johnson Milton in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets II. 30 Physical knowledge is of..rare emergence.
1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. (1817) 39 The emergence of an original poetic genius above the literary horizon.
1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 68/1 The infant is prepared for a more independent existence by the emergence of teeth.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xviii. 140 Its [sc. a glacier's] emergence from the valley.
1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets i. 1 The emergence from primitive barbarism of the great races.
1884 Sat. Rev. 22 Nov. 657/2 That emergence of the adversary's point at the back might trouble a Neapolitan fencer.
1911 P. Geddes & J. A. Thomson Evol. Sex (new ed.) 102 It is undeniably difficult to discover the factors in his emergence and ascent.
1913 G. E. Smith in Rep. Brit. Assoc. 1912 577 The gradual emergence of human traits from the uncouth simian features of our ancestors.
1915 Scientia XVIII. 255 The emergence of anything new in the world... If intrinsic structure and external conditions are..strictly similar, nothing new emerges. But if with like intrinsic structure the conditions are different, or vice versa, something new may emerge. And if genuinely emergent (as contrasted with resultant in accordance with G. H. Lewes's distinction) it may be unpredictable.
1920 S. Alexander Space, Time & Deity II. iii. ii. 45 The emergence of a new quality from any level of existence means that at that level there comes into being a certain constellation or collocation of the motions belonging to that level, and possessing the quality appropriate to it, and this collocation possesses a new quality distinctive of the higher complex.
b. Astronomy and Optics. (Cf. emerge v.1 3b.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > the universe > heavenly body > [noun] > state of being visible > reappearance
apparition1556
emersion1633
egress1664
emergencea1727
expurgation1727
emergency1763
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > [noun] > appearing or becoming visible > of heavenly body
coming out?c1425
emersion1633
emergencea1727
emergency1763
a1727 I. Newton Opticks (1730) i. ii. 127 Refracted Light at its very first Emergence.
1833 J. F. W. Herschel Astronomy ix. 294 The satellite's emergence.
1863 J. Tyndall Heat iv. 108 As a thermic agent, the beam..is far more powerful than..after its emergence.
1881 Ld. Rayleigh in Nature 17 Nov. 64/2 Giving the light a more..grazing emergence.
3.
a. An unforeseen occurrence; a state of things unexpectedly arising, and demanding immediate attention.Now replaced by emergency n., which Ash in 1775 notes as ‘less usual’.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [noun] > unexpected event or course of events
went1338
emergent1620
emergencya1631
counter-turninga1668
emergencea1676
counter-turn1744
go1783
contretemps1809
turn-up1884
the world > action or operation > difficulty > [noun] > difficult state of things > sudden, extreme, or emergency
needOE
needinga1400
exigentc1475
plunge1519
opportunity1526
push1563
dead lift1567
heft1587
exigence1588
exigency1601
emergent1620
lift1624
emergencya1631
emergencea1676
emergementa1734
amplush1827
crisis1848
situation1954
a1676 H. Guthry Mem. (1702) 72 The Castle of Dunglass was blown up with Powder..This tragical Emergence, etc.
1788 J. Priestley Lect. Hist. v. lii. 406 To raise the nominal value of money may serve a particular emergence.
1823 W. Scott Peveril I. v. 152 The best I can think of in this emergence is, [etc.].
1849 J. W. Carlyle Lett. II. 69 Nothing came out on the present emergence to alter our opinion.
b. Pressing need, urgent want: ‘a sense not proper’ (Johnson).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > necessity > condition of being necessary > need or want > [noun] > extreme or urgent need
exigence1581
heft1587
exigency1589
emergency1716
emergence1781
1781 W. Cowper Charity 188 Not he but his emergence forced the door.
1846 W. M. Thackeray Notes Journey Cornhill to Cairo ix. 153 They call in their emergence Upon countless saints and virgins.
4. Botany. A term applied by Sachs to those outgrowths on leaves or stems which arise from the sub-epidermic tissue and not merely from the epidermis.
ΚΠ
1882 tr. Sachs's Text-bk. Botany (ed. 2) 161.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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