different between impend vs emerge

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin impendere (“to hang over, to weigh out”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?p?nd/
• Rhymes: -?nd

Verb

impend (third-person singular simple present impends, present participle impending, simple past and past participle impended)

1. (obsolete) To hang or be suspended over (something); to overhang.
   • 1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt 2008, p. 210:

     The Earl had often heard of a rich citizen […] and the peculiar charm of a little snug rotunda which he had just finished on the verge of his ground, and which impended the great London road.

   • When a thing really impends over another, e.g. when one stands at a fountain (????????), over which one really leans.

2. (intransitive) Figuratively to hang over (someone) as a threat or danger.
3. (intransitive) To threaten to happen; to be about to happen, to be imminent.
4. (obsolete) To pay.

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Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Mendip

English

Etymology

[Late 16th Century] Borrowed from Middle French emerger, from Latin emergere (“to rise up or out”), from e- (a variant of ex- (“out, forth”)) + mergere (“to dip, to sink”)

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /i?m?d??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /i?m??d??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d?
• Hyphenation: emerge

Verb

emerge (third-person singular simple present emerges, present participle emerging, simple past and past participle emerged)

1. (intransitive) To come into view.
2. (intransitive, copulative) To come out of a situation, object or a liquid.
3. (intransitive) To become known.

Synonyms

• (come into view): come forth, forthcome, heave in sight; see also Thesaurus:appear

Derived terms

• re-emerge, reemerge

Related terms

• emergence
• emergency
• emergent

Translations

Noun

emerge

1. Alternative spelling of emerg

Anagrams

• mergee

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?rd?e

Verb

emerge

1. third-person singular present indicative of emergere

Anagrams

• gemere, megere

Latin

Verb

?merge

1. second-person singular present active imperative of ?merg?

Portuguese

Verb

emerge

1. third-person singular present indicative of emergir
2. second-person singular imperative of emergir

Romanian

Etymology

From French émerger.

Verb

a emerge (third-person singular present emerge, past participle emers) 3rd conj.

1. to emerge

Conjugation

Spanish

Verb

emerge

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of emerger.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of emerger.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of emerger.