单词 | emergence |
释义 | emergencen. 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). < n.a1676 |
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