TURN UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does turn up mean? 

• TURN UP (verb)
  The verb TURN UP has 5 senses:

1. appear or become visible; make a showing

2. bend or lay so that one part covers the other

3. discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining

4. be shown or be found to be

5. find by digging in the ground

  Familiarity information: TURN UP used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TURN UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Appear or become visible; make a showing

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

come on; come out; show up; surface; turn up

Context example:

I hope the list key is going to surface again

Hypernyms (to "turn up" is one way to...):

appear (come into sight or view)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

Bend or lay so that one part covers the other

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

fold; fold up; turn up

Context example:

turn up your collar

Hypernyms (to "turn up" is one way to...):

change surface (undergo or cause to undergo a change in the surface)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "turn up"):

pleat; plicate (fold into pleats)

crease; furrow; wrinkle (make wrinkled or creased)

crease; crinkle; crisp; ruckle; scrunch; scrunch up; wrinkle (make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; 'crisp' is archaic)

corrugate (fold into ridges)

pleat; ruffle (pleat or gather into a ruffle)

tuck (make a tuck or several folds in)

crimp; pinch (make ridges into by pinching together)

cross (fold so as to resemble a cross)

collapse (fold or close up)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

turnup (the lap consisting of a turned-back hem encircling the end of the sleeve or leg)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

locate; turn up

Context example:

My search turned up nothing

Hypernyms (to "turn up" is one way to...):

find; regain (come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost)

Verb group:

dig up; excavate; turn up (find by digging in the ground)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "turn up"):

unearth (bring to light)

nail; pinpoint (locate exactly)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP

Sense 4

Meaning:

Be shown or be found to be

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

prove; turn out; turn up

Context example:

She turned up HIV positive

Hypernyms (to "turn up" is one way to...):

be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "turn up"):

ensue; result (issue or terminate (in a specified way, state, etc.); end)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s Adjective/Noun
Somebody ----s Adjective
Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE
It ----s that CLAUSE

Sense 5

Meaning:

Find by digging in the ground

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

dig up; excavate; turn up

Context example:

I dug up an old box in the garden

Hypernyms (to "turn up" is one way to...):

obtain (come into possession of)

Verb group:

locate; turn up (discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "turn up"):

grub out; grub up (dig up)

nuzzle (dig out with the snout)

disinter; exhume (dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

It didn't matter so much when you were a little girl, but now you are so tall, and turn up your hair, you should remember that you are a young lady.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The Portsmouth girls turn up their noses at anybody who has not a commission.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Well, I saw him at that moment turn up the Lansdown Road, driving a smart-looking girl.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

If, however, he doesn't turn up by five o'clock, we must start off; for it won't do to leave Mrs. Harker alone after sunset.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Now I am convinced, myself, and this I have pointed out to Mr. Micawber several times of late, that things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I said, “His majesty should be satisfied; for I was ready to strip myself, and turn up my pockets before him.”

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

That is, I always had a strong persuasion he would be here again soon, I was sure something favourable would turn up—but nobody believed me.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Are you an archeologist? This month may find you on a dig that you will always remember, one where you could turn up newsworthy items.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

If our young lover should turn up unexpected, as before, no word to him. It would at once frighten him and enjealous him, too.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Jo would turn up her naughty nose at some of the finest, because she has no soul for art, but I have, and I'm cultivating eye and taste as fast as I can.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)