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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
come
    n 1: the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is
         ejaculated by the male genital tract [syn: semen, seed,
         seminal fluid, ejaculate, cum, come]
    v 1: move toward, travel toward something or somebody or
         approach something or somebody; "He came singing down the
         road"; "Come with me to the Casbah"; "come down here!";
         "come out of the closet!"; "come into the room" [syn:
         come, come up] [ant: depart, go, go away]
    2: reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress; "She
       arrived home at 7 o'clock"; "She didn't get to Chicago until
       after midnight" [syn: arrive, get, come] [ant: go
       away, go forth, leave]
    3: come to pass; arrive, as in due course; "The first success
       came three days later"; "It came as a shock"; "Dawn comes
       early in June"
    4: reach or enter a state, relation, condition, use, or
       position; "The water came to a boil"; "We came to understand
       the true meaning of life"; "Their anger came to a boil"; "I
       came to realize the true meaning of life"; "The shoes came
       untied"; "come into contact with a terrorist group"; "his
       face went red"; "your wish will come true"
    5: to be the product or result; "Melons come from a vine";
       "Understanding comes from experience" [syn: come, follow]
    6: be found or available; "These shoes come in three colors; The
       furniture comes unassembled"
    7: come forth; "A scream came from the woman's mouth"; "His
       breath came hard" [syn: issue forth, come]
    8: be a native of; "She hails from Kalamazoo" [syn: hail,
       come]
    9: extend or reach; "The water came up to my waist"; "The
       sleeves come to your knuckles"
    10: exist or occur in a certain point in a series; "Next came
        the student from France"
    11: cover a certain distance; "She came a long way"
    12: come under, be classified or included; "fall into a
        category"; "This comes under a new heading" [syn: fall,
        come]
    13: happen as a result; "Nothing good will come of this"
    14: add up in number or quantity; "The bills amounted to
        $2,000"; "The bill came to $2,000" [syn: total, number,
        add up, come, amount]
    15: develop into; "This idea will never amount to anything";
        "nothing came of his grandiose plans" [syn: come, add
        up, amount]
    16: be received; "News came in of the massacre in Rwanda" [syn:
        come, come in]
    17: come to one's mind; suggest itself; "It occurred to me that
        we should hire another secretary"; "A great idea then came
        to her" [syn: occur, come]
    18: come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for
        example; "She was descended from an old Italian noble
        family"; "he comes from humble origins" [syn: derive,
        come, descend]
    19: proceed or get along; "How is she doing in her new job?";
        "How are you making out in graduate school?"; "He's come a
        long way" [syn: do, fare, make out, come, get
        along]
    20: experience orgasm; "she could not come because she was too
        upset"
    21: have a certain priority; "My family comes first"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Come \Come\, v. i. [imp. Came; p. p. Come; p. pr & vb. n.
   Coming.] [OE. cumen, comen, AS. cuman; akin to OS.kuman, D.
   komen, OHG. queman, G. kommen, Icel. koma, Sw. komma, Dan.
   komme, Goth. giman, L. venire (gvenire), Gr. ? to go, Skr.
   gam. [root]23. Cf. Base, n., Convene, Adventure.]
   1. To move hitherward; to draw near; to approach the speaker,
      or some place or person indicated; -- opposed to go.
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            Look, who comes yonder?               --Shak.
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            I did not come to curse thee.         --Tennyson.
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   2. To complete a movement toward a place; to arrive.
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            When we came to Rome.                 --Acts xxviii.
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            Lately come from Italy.               --Acts xviii.
                                                  2.
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   3. To approach or arrive, as if by a journey or from a
      distance. "Thy kingdom come." --Matt. vi. 10.
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            The hour is coming, and now is.       --John. v. 25.
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            So quick bright things come to confusion. --Shak.
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   4. To approach or arrive, as the result of a cause, or of the
      act of another.
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            From whence come wars?                --James iv. 1.
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            Both riches and honor come of thee !  --1 Chron.
                                                  xxix. 12.
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   5. To arrive in sight; to be manifest; to appear.
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            Then butter does refuse to come.      --Hudibras.
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   6. To get to be, as the result of change or progress; -- with
      a predicate; as, to come untied.
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            How come you thus estranged?          --Shak.
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            How come her eyes so bright?          --Shak.
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   Note: Am come, is come, etc., are frequently used instead of
         have come, has come, etc., esp. in poetry. The verb to
         be gives a clearer adjectival significance to the
         participle as expressing a state or condition of the
         subject, while the auxiliary have expresses simply the
         completion of the action signified by the verb.
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               Think not that I am come to destroy. --Matt. v.
                                                  17.
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               We are come off like Romans.       --Shak.
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               The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the
               year.                              --Bryant.
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   Note: Come may properly be used (instead of go) in speaking
         of a movement hence, or away, when there is reference
         to an approach to the person addressed; as, I shall
         come home next week; he will come to your house to-day.
         It is used with other verbs almost as an auxiliary,
         indicative of approach to the action or state expressed
         by the verb; as, how came you to do it? Come is used
         colloquially, with reference to a definite future time
         approaching, without an auxiliary; as, it will be two
         years, come next Christmas; i. e., when Christmas shall
         come.
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               They were cried
               In meeting, come next Sunday.      --Lowell.
         Come, in the imperative, is used to excite attention,
         or to invite to motion or joint action; come, let us
         go. "This is the heir; come, let us kill him." --Matt.
         xxi. 38. When repeated, it sometimes expresses haste,
         or impatience, and sometimes rebuke. "Come, come, no
         time for lamentation now." --Milton.
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   To come, yet to arrive, future. "In times to come."
      --Dryden. "There's pippins and cheese to come." --Shak.

   To come about.
      (a) To come to pass; to arrive; to happen; to result; as,
          how did these things come about?
      (b) To change; to come round; as, the ship comes about.
          "The wind is come about." --Shak.
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                On better thoughts, and my urged reasons,
                They are come about, and won to the true side.
                                                  --B. Jonson.

   To come abroad.
      (a) To move or be away from one's home or country. "Am
          come abroad to see the world." --Shak.
      (b) To become public or known. [Obs.] "Neither was
          anything kept secret, but that it should come abroad."
          --Mark. iv. 22.

   To come across, to meet; to find, esp. by chance or
      suddenly. "We come across more than one incidental mention
      of those wars." --E. A. Freeman. "Wagner's was certainly
      one of the strongest and most independent natures I ever
      came across." --H. R. Haweis.

   To come after.
      (a) To follow.
      (b) To come to take or to obtain; as, to come after a
          book.

   To come again, to return. "His spirit came again and he
      revived." --Judges. xv. 19. - 

   To come and go.
      (a) To appear and disappear; to change; to alternate. "The
          color of the king doth come and go." --Shak.
      (b) (Mech.) To play backward and forward.

   To come at.
      (a) To reach; to arrive within reach of; to gain; as, to
          come at a true knowledge of ourselves.
      (b) To come toward; to attack; as, he came at me with
          fury.

   To come away, to part or depart.

   To come between, to intervene; to separate; hence, to cause
      estrangement.

   To come by.
      (a) To obtain, gain, acquire. "Examine how you came by all
          your state." --Dryden.
      (b) To pass near or by way of.

   To come down.
      (a) To descend.
      (b) To be humbled.

   To come down upon, to call to account, to reprimand.
      [Colloq.] --Dickens.

   To come home.
      (a) To return to one's house or family.
      (b) To come close; to press closely; to touch the
          feelings, interest, or reason.
      (c) (Naut.) To be loosened from the ground; -- said of an
          anchor.

   To come in.
      (a) To enter, as a town, house, etc. "The thief cometh
          in." --Hos. vii. 1.
      (b) To arrive; as, when my ship comes in.
      (c) To assume official station or duties; as, when Lincoln
          came in.
      (d) To comply; to yield; to surrender. "We need not fear
          his coming in" --Massinger.
      (e) To be brought into use. "Silken garments did not come
          in till late." --Arbuthnot.
      (f) To be added or inserted; to be or become a part of.
      (g) To accrue as gain from any business or investment.
      (h) To mature and yield a harvest; as, the crops come in
          well.
      (i) To have sexual intercourse; -- with to or unto. --Gen.
          xxxviii. 16.
      (j) To have young; to bring forth; as, the cow will come
          in next May. [U. S.]

   To come in for, to claim or receive. "The rest came in for
      subsidies." --Swift.

   To come into, to join with; to take part in; to agree to;
      to comply with; as, to come into a party or scheme.

   To come it over, to hoodwink; to get the advantage of.
      [Colloq.]

   To come near or To come nigh, to approach in place or
      quality; to be equal to. "Nothing ancient or modern seems
      to come near it." --Sir W. Temple.

   To come of.
      (a) To descend or spring from. "Of Priam's royal race my
          mother came." --Dryden.
      (b) To result or follow from. "This comes of judging by
          the eye." --L'Estrange.

   To come off.
      (a) To depart or pass off from.
      (b) To get free; to get away; to escape.
      (c) To be carried through; to pass off; as, it came off
          well.
      (d) To acquit one's self; to issue from (a contest, etc.);
          as, he came off with honor; hence, substantively, a
          come-off, an escape; an excuse; an evasion. [Colloq.]
      (e) To pay over; to give. [Obs.]
      (f) To take place; to happen; as, when does the race come
          off?
      (g) To be or become after some delay; as, the weather came
          off very fine.
      (h) To slip off or be taken off, as a garment; to
          separate.
      (i) To hurry away; to get through. --Chaucer.

   To come off by, to suffer. [Obs.] "To come off by the
      worst." --Calamy.

   To come off from, to leave. "To come off from these grave
      disquisitions." --Felton.

   To come on.
      (a) To advance; to make progress; to thrive.
      (b) To move forward; to approach; to supervene.

   To come out.
      (a) To pass out or depart, as from a country, room,
          company, etc. "They shall come out with great
          substance." --Gen. xv. 14.
      (b) To become public; to appear; to be published. "It is
          indeed come out at last." --Bp. Stillingfleet.
      (c) To end; to result; to turn out; as, how will this
          affair come out? he has come out well at last.
      (d) To be introduced into society; as, she came out two
          seasons ago.
      (e) To appear; to show itself; as, the sun came out.
      (f) To take sides; to announce a position publicly; as, he
          came out against the tariff.
      (g) To publicly admit oneself to be homosexual.

   To come out with, to give publicity to; to disclose.

   To come over.
      (a) To pass from one side or place to another.
          "Perpetually teasing their friends to come over to
          them." --Addison.
      (b) To rise and pass over, in distillation.

   To come over to, to join.

   To come round.
      (a) To recur in regular course.
      (b) To recover. [Colloq.]
      (c) To change, as the wind.
      (d) To relent. --J. H. Newman.
      (e) To circumvent; to wheedle. [Colloq.]

   To come short, to be deficient; to fail of attaining. "All
      have sinned and come short of the glory of God." --Rom.
      iii. 23.

   To come to.
      (a) To consent or yield. --Swift.
      (b) (Naut.) (with the accent on to) To luff; to bring the
          ship's head nearer the wind; to anchor.
      (c) (with the accent on to) To recover, as from a swoon.
      (d) To arrive at; to reach.
      (e) To amount to; as, the taxes come to a large sum.
      (f) To fall to; to be received by, as an inheritance.
          --Shak.

   To come to blows. See under Blow.

   To come to grief. See under Grief.

   To come to a head.
      (a) To suppurate, as a boil.
      (b) To mature; to culminate; as a plot.

   To come to one's self, to recover one's senses.

   To come to pass, to happen; to fall out.

   To come to the scratch.
      (a) (Prize Fighting) To step up to the scratch or mark
          made in the ring to be toed by the combatants in
          beginning a contest; hence:
      (b) To meet an antagonist or a difficulty bravely.
          [Colloq.]

   To come to time.
      (a) (Prize Fighting) To come forward in order to resume
          the contest when the interval allowed for rest is over
          and "time" is called; hence:
      (b) To keep an appointment; to meet expectations.
          [Colloq.]

   To come together.
      (a) To meet for business, worship, etc.; to assemble.
          --Acts i. 6.
      (b) To live together as man and wife. --Matt. i. 18.

   To come true, to happen as predicted or expected.

   To come under, to belong to, as an individual to a class.
      

   To come up
      (a) to ascend; to rise.
      (b) To be brought up; to arise, as a question.
      (c) To spring; to shoot or rise above the earth, as a
          plant.
      (d) To come into use, as a fashion.

   To come up the capstan (Naut.), to turn it the contrary
      way, so as to slacken the rope about it.

   To come up the tackle fall (Naut.), to slacken the tackle
      gently. --Totten.

   To come up to, to rise to; to equal.

   To come up with, to overtake or reach by pursuit.

   To come upon.
      (a) To befall.
      (b) To attack or invade.
      (c) To have a claim upon; to become dependent upon for
          support; as, to come upon the town.
      (d) To light or chance upon; to find; as, to come upon hid
          treasure.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Come \Come\, v. t.
   To carry through; to succeed in; as, you can't come any
   tricks here. [Slang]
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   To come it, to succeed in a trick of any sort. [Slang]
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Come \Come\, n.
   Coming. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
cum \cum\ (k[u^]m), n.
   same as semen[2]; -- also spelled come. [vulgar slang]
   [PJC]

Thesaurus Results for Come:

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