Emerging

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Emerge \E*merge"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Emerged}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Emerging}.] [L. emergere, emersum; e out + mergere to
     dip, plunge. See {Merge}.]
     To rise out of a fluid; to come forth from that in which
     anything has been plunged, enveloped, or concealed; to issue
     and appear; as, to emerge from the water or the ocean; the


     sun emerges from behind the moon in an eclipse; to emerge
     from poverty or obscurity. "Thetis . . . emerging from the
     deep." --Dryden.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Those who have emerged from very low, some from the
           lowest, classes of society.              --Burke.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  emerging
       adj 1: coming into view; "as newly emerging emotions and ideas well
              up in him"
       2: coming into existence; "a nascent republic" [syn: {emergent},
           {nascent}]
       3: coming to maturity; "the rising generation" [syn: {rising}]