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come

/kʌm/

Phonetics

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noun

  • Coming, arrival; approach.

  • Semen

  • Female ejaculatory discharge.


verb

  • To move from further away to nearer to.

    Example: She’ll be coming ’round the mountain when she comes [...]
  • To arrive.

  • To appear, to manifest itself.

    Example: The pain in his leg comes and goes.
  • (with an infinitive) To begin to have an opinion or feeling.

    Example: She came to think of that country as her home.
  • (with an infinitive) To do something by chance, without intending to do it.

    Example: Could you tell me how the document came to be discovered?
  • To take a position relative to something else in a sequence.

    Example: Which letter comes before Y?   Winter comes after autumn.
  • To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.

    Example: He came after a few minutes.
  • (with close) To approach a state of being or accomplishment.

    Example: One of the screws came loose, and the skateboard fell apart.
  • (with to) To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.

    Example: He came to SF literature a confirmed technophile, and nothing made him happier than to read a manuscript thick with imaginary gizmos and whatzits.
  • (fossil word) To become, to turn out to be.

    Example: He was a dream come true.
  • To be supplied, or made available; to exist.

    Example: A new sports car doesn't come cheap.
  • To carry through; to succeed in.

    Example: You can't come any tricks here.
  • Happen.

    Example: This kind of accident comes when you are careless.
  • (with from or sometimes of) To have as an origin, originate.

  • (of grain) To germinate.

  • To pretend to be; to behave in the manner of.

    Example: Don't come the innocent victim. We all know who's to blame here.

preposition

  • Used to indicate a point in time at or after which a stated event or situation occurs.

    Example: Come retirement, their Social Security may turn out to be a lot less than they counted on.

interjection

  • An exclamation to express annoyance.

    Example: Come come! Stop crying.  Come now! You must eat it.
  • An exclamation to express encouragement, or to precede a request.

    Example: Come come! You can do it.  Come now! It won't bite you.

come

Phonetics


noun

  • The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set off parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.

  • A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark.

  • Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially Polygonia c-album and Polygonia c-aureum of North Africa, Europe, and Asia.

  • A difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.

  • A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence.

  • In Ancient Greek rhetoric, a short clause, something less than a colon, originally denoted by comma marks. In antiquity it was defined as a combination of words having no more than eight syllables in all. It was later applied to longer phrases, e.g. the Johannine comma.

  • A brief interval.