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Irregular inflected form: came
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract
Synonyms:
come; cum; ejaculate; seed; semen; seminal fluid
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("come" is a kind of...):
bodily fluid; body fluid; humor; humour; liquid body substance (the liquid parts of the body)
Meronyms (parts of "come"):
sperm; sperm cell; spermatozoan; spermatozoon (the male reproductive cell; the male gamete)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "come"):
milt (seminal fluid produced by male fish)
II. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they come ... he / she / it comes
Past simple: came
Past participle: come
-ing form: coming
Sense 1
Meaning:
Come to pass; arrive, as in due course
Example:
Dawn comes early in June
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "come" is one way to...):
come about; fall out; go on; hap; happen; occur; pass; pass off; take place (come to pass)
Verb group:
come (reach or enter a state, relation, condition, use, or position)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "come"):
descend; fall; settle (come as if by falling)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Derivation:
coming (the temporal property of becoming nearer in time)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Be found or available
Example:
These shoes come in three colors; The furniture comes unassembled
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "come" is one way to...):
be; exist (have an existence, be extant)
Sentence frames:
Something is ----ing PP
Something ----s Adjective/Noun
Somebody ----s Adjective
Sense 3
Meaning:
Happen as a result
Example:
Nothing good will come of this
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "come" is one way to...):
ensue; result (issue or terminate (in a specified way, state, etc.); end)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sense 4
Meaning:
Reach or enter a state, relation, condition, use, or position
Example:
your wish will come true
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "come" is one way to...):
change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)
Verb group:
come (come to pass; arrive, as in due course)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE
Sense 5
Meaning:
Have a certain priority
Example:
My family comes first
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Hypernyms (to "come" is one way to...):
rank (take or have a position relative to others)
Sentence frames:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 6
Meaning:
Come to one's mind; suggest itself
Example:
A great idea then came to her
Synonyms:
come; occur
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Hypernyms (to "come" is one way to...):
become (come into existence)
Sentence frame:
Something is ----ing PP
Sense 7
Meaning:
Cover a certain distance
Example:
She came a long way
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "come" is one way to...):
go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sense 8
Meaning:
Move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
Example:
come into the room
Synonyms:
come; come up
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "come" is one way to...):
go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "come"):
emanate (proceed or issue forth, as from a source)
accost; address; come up to (speak to someone)
approach; come near (come near in time)
approach; come near; come on; draw close; draw near; go up; near (move towards)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
Sentence example:
They come down the river
Antonym:
go (move away from a place into another direction)
Also:
come in (come into fashion; become fashionable)
come through (attain success or reach a desired goal)
come through (continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.))
come up (come up, of celestial bodies)
come up (come to the surface)
come with (be present or associated with an event or entity)
Derivation:
coming (the act of drawing spatially closer to something)
Sense 9
Meaning:
Reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress
Example:
She didn't get to Chicago until after midnight
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Verb group:
get (reach and board)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "come"):
plump in (arrive suddenly and unannounced)
draw in; get in; move in; pull in (of trains; move into (a station))
flood in (arrive in great numbers)
attain; hit; reach (reach a point in time, or a certain state or level)
come; come in (be received)
roll up (arrive in a vehicle:)
land; set ashore; shore (arrive on shore)
bring down; land; put down (cause to come to the ground)
drive in (arrive by motorcar)
land; set down (reach or come to rest)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
Sentence example:
These cars won't come
Derivation:
comer (someone who arrives (or has arrived))
coming (arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous))
Sense 10
Meaning:
Be received
Example:
News came in of the massacre in Rwanda
Synonyms:
come; come in
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "come" is one way to...):
arrive; come; get (reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sense 11
Meaning:
Experience orgasm
Example:
she could not come because she was too upset
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Hypernyms (to "come" is one way to...):
experience; go through; see (undergo or live through a difficult experience)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Sentence example:
Sam and Sue come
Derivation:
coming (the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse)
Sense 12
Meaning:
Proceed or get along
Example:
He's come a long way
Synonyms:
come; do; fare; get along; make out
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "come" is one way to...):
go; proceed (follow a certain course)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s Adjective/Noun
Somebody ----s Adjective
Sense 13
Meaning:
To be the product or result
Example:
Understanding comes from experience
Synonyms:
come; follow
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "come" is one way to...):
arise; develop; grow; originate; rise; spring up; uprise (come into existence; take on form or shape)
Verb group:
come (exist or occur in a certain point in a series)
Sentence frame:
Something is ----ing PP
Sense 14
Meaning:
Develop into
Example:
nothing came of his grandiose plans
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "come" is one way to...):
become; turn (undergo a change or development)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "come"):
aggregate (amount in the aggregate to)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Sense 15
Meaning:
Add up in number or quantity
Example:
The bill came to $2,000
Synonyms:
add up; amount; come; number; total
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "come" is one way to...):
be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "come"):
work out (be calculated)
outnumber (be larger in number)
average; average out (amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain)
make (add up to)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Sense 16
Meaning:
Extend or reach
Example:
The sleeves come to your knuckles
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "come" is one way to...):
extend; go; lead; pass; run (stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point)
Sentence frame:
Something is ----ing PP
Sense 17
Meaning:
Come under, be classified or included
Example:
This comes under a new heading
Synonyms:
come; fall
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "come" is one way to...):
be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))
Sentence frames:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 18
Meaning:
Come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example
Example:
he comes from humble origins
Synonyms:
come; derive; descend
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Verb group:
derive (come from)
come; hail (be a native of)
Sentence frames:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 19
Meaning:
Be a native of
Example:
She hails from Kalamazoo
Synonyms:
come; hail
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "come" is one way to...):
be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))
Verb group:
come; derive; descend (come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 20
Meaning:
Exist or occur in a certain point in a series
Example:
Next came the student from France
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "come" is one way to...):
be (occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere)
Verb group:
come; follow (to be the product or result)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 21
Meaning:
Come forth
Example:
His breath came hard
Synonyms:
come; issue forth
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Context examples:
I was just balancing whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her landau when a cab came through the street.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Come to think of it, Doctor, you may possibly be able to satisfy my curiosity.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
And to such as these, so long as they came about his chambers, he never marked a shade of change in his demeanour.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
No, she said, he had come home in the afternoon but had gone up to the hall to dine and pass the evening with the squire.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The winter, however, was spent cheerfully; and although the spring was uncommonly late, when it came its beauty compensated for its dilatoriness.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Brother Mark of the Spicarium is sore smitten with a fever and could not come.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I call it luck, but it would not have come my way had I not been looking out for it.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“They clung to the inside and stuck together. When we did the same experiment with sand and volcanic ash using Earth-like conditions, all of it came out. Nothing stuck.”
('Electric Sands' Cover Titan, VOA News)
There are several types of omega-3s, some of which must come from the diet.
(Omega-3s linked with lower risk of fatal heart attacks, NIH)
A major advantage when it comes to microalgae is the fact that it is not seasonal and its production does not depend on specific conditions, like soil properties.
(Petrobras considers producing biodiesel from microalgae, Agência Brasil)
