Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Newly formed or just coming into prominence; emergent: emerging markets; the emerging states of Africa.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- adj. coming to maturity
- adj. coming into existence
Examples
“Avoid the term emerging nations because those newly adapting to market economics usually have long been sovereign states.”
Simon & Schuster: Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage
“The term "emerging" is used loosely among fund managers.”
“With Wall Street again emerging from the bear cave, morbid fear of double dip is fading in the wake of upside corporate reports.”
“A number of CCTV cameras around King's Cross filmed Hussain emerging from the concourse on to a pavement packed with commuters holding umbrellas; many had been evacuated from the underground following the explosions, when Mohammed Sidique Khan, Shehzad Tanweer and Jermaine Lindsay had blown themselves up to devastating effect.”
The Guardian: 7/7 footage at inquest shows final bomber Hasib Hussain
“The term emerging markets was coined by economists at the International Finance Corporation (IFC) in 1981, when the group was promoting the first mutual fund investments in developing countries.”
“One could argue that spirit's difficulty in emerging from the darkness of matter makes Ages a forerunner of negative dialectics, whether in the form of a "natural history”
'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815)
“I crawled under the limbs on hands and knees and scooped handfuls of duff onto this "mattress" until it resembled a rusty coffin emerging from the earth.”
“So President Bush is trawling for votes with the image of a flag-draped coffin emerging from the rubble of the World Trade Center.”
“Plus, when the propane is on, it sounds rather like a high-speed train emerging from a tunnel and rushing past you.”
“If he must plunge into the depth of the forest, he took care to trace his path by blazing the trees with his mark; and if sometimes he seemed slow in emerging from the wilderness, it was be -”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘emerging’.
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EN - academic vocabulary
Use these and get promoted
abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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The Buzz
The bang, the cannonade,
the bale, the hum.lab situation, media, startup, scientific, gameplay, social, intuitive, creative, collaborative, funding, non-governmental ..., consultant and 124 more...
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EN - newSPEAK
Buzzwords of our time
actionable, administrivia, advermation, agreeance, backbone provider, back-sourcing, baked in, bandwidth, barn raising, Barneyware, belly-buttons, Below Zeros and 1078 more...
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EN - overused words
approach, project, expertise, agenda, benchmarking, sustainable, competence, mainstreaming, streamlining, roadmap, action, evaluation and 26 more...
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FYS100
Word discovery & discussion by CSUMB first-year students, to help with required texts.
trippy, bantam, patience, Roseto, Froth, legit, patronage, quarries, compatriot, intact, baby boomer, virtuosos and 35 more...
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Daily We
proliferate, defunct, like-minded, like-minded people, barely, caution, emphasize, striking, emerging, increasingly, engage, exposure and 46 more...
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TECH - Steve Jobs
visionary, redefine, digital, founder, era, computer, cultural, product, global, gaunt, frail, executive and 76 more...
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some-ing
king, offering, blessing, coping, earnings, trappings, breeding, during, offing, refreshing, sitting, outing and 208 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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deegee's Words
pay-per-view, vitriol, delectable, snarky, unflinching, forsake, pervasive, inconsequential, unnerving, allure, endearing, unalloyed and 414 more...
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Probe~ation
An obnoxious and ridiculous madlib list where verbish '-ing' words fill in the blank wherein the blank is a call for a beating.
For example:
"You're ________in' for a brus...searching, looking, hunting, seeking, questing, exploring, asking, inquiring, snooping, poking, probing, scouting and 262 more...
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agsystems's Words
consequence, fragment, poetic, structures, transmutation, glimpse, memory, machine, mnemonic, turbulence, mooching, mooch and 2 more...
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the things that you do
relate, immure, resemble, brighten, lighten, darken, magnify, anticipate, illuminate, fly, hesitate, accept and 74 more...
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list for kristina
atmosphere, supper, fragrant, intonation, pacify, selfless, urban, distribution, innovation, quantities, tropical, drastic and 19 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for emerging.
cbone i like how it relates to Gladwells book, the Outliers
Go see Malcom!
Sep 28, 2011
cbone oh it would be my pleasure to incorporate you in my journey throughout wordnik and i hope you comment on my stuff as well, in the mean time .. live well and prosper Sep 28, 2011
kmckoane this is great for the expansion of viewers thoughts, i really hope to hear more thoughts and comments from you in the days to come Sep 28, 2011
cbone thanks, i really try to incorporate these definitions to the real world and movie references that people can relate too :)
Sep 28, 2011
kmckoane wow cbone i really appreciate your sense of imagination on my word and really being able to connect with the word Sep 28, 2011
cbone this reminds me of 13 going on 30 when jennifer garner had that really big wake up call because she was being a jerk to her friends and the guy she loved Sep 28, 2011