Hypertext Webster Gateway: "emerging"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
Those who have emerged from very low, some from the
lowest, classes of society. --Burke.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (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}]
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