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coming

/ˈkʌmɪŋ/

verb

Meaning

  • To move from further away to nearer to.

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

  • To arrive.

  • To appear, to manifest itself.

    "The pain in his leg comes and goes."

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

    "She came to think of that country as her home."

  • (with an infinitive) To do something by chance, without intending to do it.

    "Could you tell me how the document came to be discovered?"

  • To take a position relative to something else in a sequence.

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

  • To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.

    "He came after a few minutes."

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

    "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.

    "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.

    "He was a dream come true."

  • To be supplied, or made available; to exist.

    "A new sports car doesn't come cheap."

  • To carry through; to succeed in.

    "You can't come any tricks here."

  • Happen.

    "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.

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