"come up with" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Audio: en-au-come up with.ogg [Australia] Forms: comes up with [present, singular, third-person], coming up with [participle, present], came up with [past], come up with [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|come<,,came,come> up with}} come up with (third-person singular simple present comes up with, present participle coming up with, simple past came up with, past participle come up with)
  1. (idiomatic) To manage to produce, deliver, or present (something) by inventing, creating, thinking of, or obtaining it. Tags: idiomatic Categories (topical): Thinking Translations (to invent, create): جَاءَ بِـ (jāʔa bi-) (Arabic), أَتَى بِـ (ʔatā bi-) (Arabic), 想出 (xiǎngchū) (Chinese Mandarin), 提出 (tíchū) (Chinese Mandarin), finde på (Danish), udtænke (Danish), bedenken (Dutch), verzinnen (Dutch), välja mõtlema (Estonian), keksiä (Finnish), inventer (French), imaginer (French), ausdenken (english: reflex.) (German), finna upp (Icelandic), ideare (Italian), escogitare (Italian), inventare (Italian), izdomāt (Latvian), ulzmõtlõ (Livonian), смисли (smisli) [perfective] (Macedonian), mamorona (Malagasy), novirgnǫt (Polabian), wymyślić (Polish), pensar (em) (Portuguese), alcançar (Portuguese), придумывать (pridumyvatʹ) (Russian), приходить в голову (prixoditʹ v golovu) (Russian), vymyslieť (Slovak), ingeniarse (Spanish), inventarse (Spanish), inventar (Spanish), idear (Spanish), приду́мувати (prydúmuvaty) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-come_up_with-en-verb-fWichzBu Disambiguation of Thinking: 78 12 10 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English phrasal verbs with particle (up), English phrasal verbs with particle (with), English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 72 8 20 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 66 12 22 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (up): 58 15 27 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (with): 64 16 20 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 69 11 20 Disambiguation of 'to invent, create': 86 7 6
  2. To reach or overtake.
    Sense id: en-come_up_with-en-verb-jr55su0v
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, up, with. Derived forms: come up with the goods, come up with snake eyes Related terms: come up short, come across, come away with
    Sense id: en-come_up_with-en-verb-BZacum5C

Inflected forms

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      "word": "ideare"
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      "sense": "to invent, create",
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      "word": "novirgnǫt"
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      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to invent, create",
      "word": "inventarse"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to invent, create",
      "word": "inventar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to invent, create",
      "word": "idear"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "prydúmuvaty",
      "sense": "to invent, create",
      "word": "приду́мувати"
    }
  ],
  "word": "come up with"
}

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