popping up
Rising into view
Popping up describes something appearing suddenly or unexpectedly.
Windows pop up on computer screens, shops pop up in vacant storefronts, and questions pop up during meetings.
The phrase suggests brief or spontaneous appearance: New restaurants keep popping up in this neighborhood.
In baseball, popping up means hitting a high fly ball that's easily caught.
- appearingBecoming visible or present
- showing upArriving at a place
- coming upArriving in near future
- arisingComing into being
- surfacingComing to the surface
spring up · emerging · bubble up · tooltip · error message · notification · whack-a-mole · epiphany · cropping up · out of nowhere · peeking · alert · jack-in-the-box · dialog box · toast · heads up · groundhog · blooming
- emergenceemergence, appearing, surfacing, self-organization, arising
- happeningshappenings, happening, event, occurrence, events
- risingrise, arise, ascend, climb, go up
- showing upshow up, arriving, arrive, attendance, being there
popping updisappearing
Ceasing to be visible
vanishing · fading away · going away · fading out · dropping out
popping updying down
Decreasing in force
going away · tapering off · petering out · falling off · subsiding
popping upgoing down
Moving in downward direction
descending · submerging · diving · plunging · ducking down
pop, pops, popped, popping, pop up, updating, upping, pop-up, uppity