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come

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Coming, arrival; approach.

Examples :

"The come of the school bus is always a happy event for the children. "

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Examples :

"The doctor examined the sample of come under a microscope. "

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Female ejaculatory discharge.

Examples :

"The doctor explained that a small amount of come is a normal part of a woman's reproductive cycle. "

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To move from further away to nearer to.

Examples :

"She’ll be coming ’round the mountain when she comes [...]"

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Examples :

"My friend will come to school tomorrow. "

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To appear, to manifest itself.

Examples :

"The pain in his leg comes and goes."

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(with an infinitive) To begin to have an opinion or feeling.

Examples :

"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.

Examples :

"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.

Examples :

"Which letter comes before Y? Winter comes after autumn."

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To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.

Examples :

"He came after a few minutes."

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(with close) To approach a state of being or accomplishment.

Examples :

"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.

Examples :

"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.

Examples :

"He was a dream come true."

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To be supplied, or made available; to exist.

Examples :

"Fresh milk will come in the morning. "

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To carry through; to succeed in.

Examples :

"The team worked hard all semester, and they finally came through with a successful presentation. "

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verb

Examples :

"This kind of accident comes when you are careless."

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(with from or sometimes of) To have as an origin, originate.

Examples :

"The idea for the school project came from a conversation with my grandfather. "

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(of grain) To germinate.

Examples :

"The wheat seeds came after being planted in the garden. "

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

Examples :

"My little brother often comes a tough guy at school, but he's really quite shy. "

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preposition

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

Examples :

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

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interjection

An exclamation to express annoyance.

Examples :

"Come come! Stop crying. Come now! You must eat it."

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An exclamation to express encouragement, or to precede a request.

Examples :

"Come on, finish your homework before dinner. "

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

Examples :

"The come after "school supplies" in the list separated the items. "

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A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark.

Examples :

"The math problem used a come above the "i" to indicate a different meaning. "

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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.

Examples :

"The butterfly, a beautiful come, fluttered around the garden. "

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

Examples :

"The come in the calculation of how long it took to drive to school and the calculation based on the map were quite small, but noticeable. "

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A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence.

Examples :

"The "come" between the genes in the DNA sequence indicated a break in the coding. "

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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.

Examples :

"The teacher highlighted a short come in the sentence, explaining its grammatical function. "

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A brief interval.

Examples :

"The come between the first and second bell was only a short come. "

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