Getup vs Arise - What's the difference?
getup | arise |
(chiefly, US, informal) A costume or outfit, especially one that is ostentatious or otherwise unusual.
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(informal) A fight or altercation.
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(publishing) Layout and production style, as of a magazine.
To come up from a lower to a higher position.
To come up from one's bed or place of repose; to get up.
To spring up; to come into action, being, or notice; to become operative, sensible, or visible; to begin to act a part; to present itself.
* Bible, Exodus i. 8
* Milton
* 1961 , J. A. Philip, "Mimesis in the Sophistês'' of Plato," ''Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association , vol. 92, p. 454,
As a noun getup
is (chiefly|us|informal) a costume or outfit, especially one that is ostentatious or otherwise unusual.As a verb arise is
to come up from a lower to a higher position.getup
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Alternative forms
* get up * get-upNoun
(en noun)- When near the buildings I met a white man, in such an unexpected elegance of get–up that in the first moment I took him for a sort of vision.
1,200 Reading Firemen March," Reading Eagle (Pennsylvania, USA), 28 Oct. p. 4:
- The Schnitzelbank Band, each member attired in an odd getup , received many comments for the manner in which the men marched.
Worried They Will Miss the War: Inside the Mind of West Point's Class of 2009," Newsweek , 6 June:
- [A] parade of costumed cadets trots by: a shark costume, an Uncle Sam getup and three young men in form-fitting bodysuits.
Caricature Builder," Time , 21 Jan.:
- "A bully. Picked on fellows. He loved to fight. But I never saw him in a getup with a fellow his own size."
See also
* all get up * get uparise
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Alternative forms
* arize (obsolete)Verb
- to arise from a kneeling posture
- A cloud arose and covered the sun.
- He arose early in the morning.
- There arose up a new king which knew not Joseph.
- the doubts that in his heart arose
- Because Plato allowed them to co-exist, the meaning and connotations of the one overlap those of the other, and ambiguities arise .