come
noun
- 1
Coming, arrival; approach.
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Semen
- 3
Female ejaculatory discharge.
verb
- 1
To move from further away to nearer to.
“She’ll be coming ’round the mountain when she comes [...]”
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To arrive.
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To appear, to manifest itself.
“The pain in his leg comes and goes.”
- 4
(with an infinitive) To begin to have an opinion or feeling.
“She came to think of that country as her home.”
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(with an infinitive) To do something by chance, without intending to do it.
“Could you tell me how the document came to be discovered?”
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To take a position relative to something else in a sequence.
“Which letter comes before Y? Winter comes after autumn.”
- 7
To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.
“He came after a few minutes.”
- 8
(with close) To approach a state of being or accomplishment.
“One of the screws came loose, and the skateboard fell apart.”
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(with to) 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.”
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(fossil word) To become, to turn out to be.
“He was a dream come true.”
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To be supplied, or made available; to exist.
“A new sports car doesn't come cheap.”
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To carry through; to succeed in.
“You can't come any tricks here.”
- 13
Happen.
“This kind of accident comes when you are careless.”
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(with from or sometimes of) To have as an origin, originate.
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(of grain) To germinate.
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To pretend to be; to behave in the manner of.
“Don't come the innocent victim. We all know who's to blame here.”
preposition
- 1
Used to indicate a point in time at or after which a stated event or situation occurs.
“Come retirement, their Social Security may turn out to be a lot less than they counted on.”
interjection
- 1
An exclamation to express annoyance.
“Come come! Stop crying. Come now! You must eat it.”
- 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
The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set off parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
- 2
A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark.
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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.
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A difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.
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A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence.
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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.
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A brief interval.
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