come

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Verb

1. To move nearer to the point of perspective.
   • She’ll be coming round the mountain when she comes the wrong way […]
   • I called the dog, but she wouldn't come.
   • Stop dawdling and come here!
   • Come one, come all. Step right up!
   • Hold on, I'll come in a second.
   • You should ask the doctor to come to your house.
   • No-one can find Bertie Wooster when his aunts come to visit.
   • Hundreds of thousands of people come to Disneyland every year.
   • King Cnut couldn't stop the tide coming.
   • He threw the boomerang, which came right back to him.
   • The butler should come when called.
2. To move toward the speaker.
   • I called the dog, but she wouldn't come.
   • Stop dawdling and come here!
   • Come one, come all. Step right up!
3. To move toward the listener.
   • Hold on, I'll come in a second.
   • You should ask the doctor to come to your house.
4. To move toward the object that is the focus of the sentence.
   • No-one can find Bertie Wooster when his aunts come to visit.
   • Hundreds of thousands of people come to Disneyland every year.
5. To move toward the agent or subject of the main clause.
   • King Cnut couldn't stop the tide coming.
   • He threw the boomerang, which came right back to him.
6. To move toward an unstated agent.
   • The butler should come when called.
7. To arrive.
8. To appear; to manifest itself; to cause a reaction by manifesting.
   • The pain in his leg comes and goes.
   • The news came as a shock.
9. To begin (to have an opinion or feeling).
   • We came to believe that he was not so innocent after all.
   • She came to think of that country as her home.
10. To do something by chance or unintentionally.
    • Could you tell me how the document came to be discovered?
11. To take a position relative to something else in a sequence.
    • Which letter comes before Y? Winter comes after autumn.
12. To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.
    • She came after a few minutes.
    • Come in me!
13. To become butter by being churned.
14. To approach or reach a state of being or accomplishment.
    • They came very close to leaving on time. His test scores came close to perfect.
    • One of the screws came loose, and the skateboard fell apart.
15. To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.
    • He came to SF literature a confirmed technophile, and nothing made him happier than to read a manuscript thick with imaginary gizmos and whatzits.
16. To become, to turn out to be .
    • come true
    • come about
    • come clean
    • come alive
    • come open
    • come loose
    • come undone
17. To be supplied, or made available; to exist.
    • He's as tough as they come.
    • Our milkshakes come in vanilla, strawberry and chocolate flavours.
    • A new sports car doesn't come cheap.
18. To carry through; to succeed in.
    • You can't come any tricks here.
19. To happen.
    • This kind of accident comes when you are careless.
20. To have as an origin, originate. To have a certain social background. To be or have been a resident or native.
    • Where did you come from?
    • She comes from a good family.
    • He comes from a disreputable legal firm.
    • The river comes from Bear Lake.
    • Where does this road come from?
21. To have a certain social background.
22. To be or have been a resident or native.
    • Where did you come from?
23. To have been brought up by or employed by.
    • She comes from a good family.
    • He comes from a disreputable legal firm.
24. To begin (at a certain location); to radiate or stem (from).
    • The river comes from Bear Lake.
    • Where does this road come from?
25. To germinate.
26. To pretend to be; to behave in the manner of; to assume the role of.
    • Don’t come the innocent victim. We all know who’s to blame here.

Noun

1. Coming, arrival; approach.
2. Semen.
   • When a man uses a condom during sex, he takes all of his come with him, preventing her from getting pregnant.
3. Female ejaculatory discharge.

Preposition

1. Used to indicate a point in time at or after which a stated event or situation occurs.
   • Leave it to settle for about three months and, come Christmas time, you'll have a delicious concoction to offer your guests.
   • Come retirement, their Social Security may turn out to be a lot less than they counted on.
   • Come summer, we would all head off to the coast.

Interjection

1. An exclamation to express annoyance.
   • Come, come! Stop crying.
   • Come now! Things could be worse.
2. An exclamation to express encouragement, or to precede a request.
   • Come, come! You can do it.
   • Come now! It won't bite you.

Noun

1. Alternative form of comma in its medieval use as a middot ⟨·⟩ serving as a form of colon.

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