"show up" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-show up.ogg Forms: shows up [present, singular, third-person], showing up [participle, present], showed up [past], shown up [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*|||shown up}} show up (third-person singular simple present shows up, present participle showing up, simple past showed up, past participle shown up)
  1. (intransitive) To appear, arrive, or attend, especially suddenly or erratically. Tags: intransitive Synonyms (appear): turn up Related terms: show off, show out Translations (to appear): показвам се (pokazvam se) (Bulgarian), идвам (idvam) (Bulgarian), 露面 (lòumiàn, lùmiàn) (Chinese Mandarin), ilmestyä (paikalle) (Finnish), apparaître (French), se montrer se pointer (French), auftauchen (German), erscheinen (German), megjelenik (Hungarian), 現れる (arawareru) (alt: あらわれる) (Japanese), се појавува (se pojavuva) [imperfective] (Macedonian), се појави (se pojavi) [perfective] (Macedonian), zjawiać się [imperfective] (Polish), zjawić się [perfective] (Polish), pojawiać się [imperfective] (Polish), pojawić się [perfective] (Polish), apărea (Romanian), объявля́ться (obʺjavljátʹsja) [imperfective, person] (Russian), объяви́ться (obʺjavítʹsja) [perfective] (Russian), находи́ться (naxodítʹsja) (note: object) [imperfective] (Russian), найти́сь (najtísʹ) [perfective] (Russian), появля́ться (pojavljátʹsja) [imperfective] (Russian), появи́ться (pojavítʹsja) [perfective] (Russian), пока́зываться (pokázyvatʹsja) [imperfective] (Russian), показа́ться (pokazátʹsja) [perfective] (Russian), aparecer (Spanish), dyka upp (Swedish), ortaya çıkmak (Turkish), з’являтися (zʺjavljatysja) (Ukrainian)
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  2. (intransitive) To be easily visible; to be conspicuous. Tags: intransitive
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  3. (transitive) To make visible; to expose. Tags: transitive Translations (to expose): tentoonstellen (Dutch), näyttää (Finnish), humilier (French), sich zeigen (German), avslöja (Swedish), blottlägga (Swedish), görünmek (Turkish)
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  4. (transitive, idiomatic) To make visible or expose faults and deficiencies in, usually by outdoing, outperforming, or outcompeting another. Tags: idiomatic, transitive
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Inflected forms

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          "text": "Please come on time; don't just show up whenever you feel like it.",
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          "text": "No matter how many I throw away, more copies always show up.",
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          "ref": "2021 November 2, Jim Tankersley, Katie Rogers, Lisa Friedman, quoting Joe Biden, “With Methane and Forest Deals, Climate Summit Offers Hope After Gloomy Start”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
          "text": "“We showed up. We showed up,” Mr. Biden said at a news conference at the United Nations summit on climate change, known as COP26, in Glasgow, Scotland. “The fact that China is trying to assert, understandably, a new role in the world as a world leader, not showing up? Huh. The single most important thing that’s gotten the attention of the world is climate.”",
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        "(intransitive) To appear, arrive, or attend, especially suddenly or erratically."
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          "roman": "pokazvam se",
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          "sense": "to appear",
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          "sense": "to appear",
          "word": "ilmestyä (paikalle)"
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          "sense": "to appear",
          "word": "apparaître"
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          "_dis1": "96 1 2 1",
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          "sense": "to appear",
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          "sense": "to appear",
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          "alt": "あらわれる",
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          "roman": "arawareru",
          "sense": "to appear",
          "word": "現れる"
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          "roman": "se pojavuva",
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          "note": "object",
          "roman": "naxodítʹsja",
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