Coming

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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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.
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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.
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     {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.
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     {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.
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     {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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Coming \Com"ing\, a.
     1. Approaching; of the future, especially the near future;
        the next; as, the coming week or year; the coming
        exhibition.
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              Welcome the coming, speed the parting, guest.
                                                    --Pope.
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              Your coming days and years.           --Byron.
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     2. Ready to come; complaisant; fond. [Obs.] --Pope.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Coming \Com"ing\, n.
     1. Approach; advent; manifestation; as, the coming of the
        train.
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     2. Specifically: The Second Advent of Christ, called usually
        the {second coming}.
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     {Coming in}.
        (a) Entrance; entrance way; manner of entering; beginning.
            "The goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof."
            --Ezek. xliii. 11
        (b) Income or revenue. "What are thy comings in?" --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  coming
       adj 1: of the relatively near future; "the approaching election";
              "this coming Thursday"; "the forthcoming holidays";
              "the upcoming spring fashions" [syn: {approaching}, {coming(a)},
               {forthcoming}, {upcoming}]
       2: yet to come; "coming generations"; "a future-day Gibbon of
          Macaulay" [syn: {coming(a)}, {future day}]
       n 1: the act of drawing spatially closer to something; "the
            hunter's approach scattered the geese" [syn: {approach},
             {approaching}]
       2: arrival that has been awaited (especially of something
          momentous); "the advent of the computer" [syn: {advent}]
       3: the temporal property of becoming nearer in time; "the
          approach of winter" [syn: {approach}, {approaching}]
       4: the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse
          [syn: {orgasm}, {climax}, {sexual climax}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  167 Moby Thesaurus words for "coming":
     about to be, access, accession, accomplishment, achievement,
     advance, advancing, advent, afflux, affluxion, already in sight,
     apparition, appearance, appearing, approach, approach of time,
     approaching, appropinquation, approximate, approximation,
     approximative, appulse, arising, arrival, arriving,
     assured of success, at hand, attainment, attracted to, avatar,
     brewing, close, close at hand, collateral, coming into being,
     coming near, coming to, coming toward, coming-forth, contingent,
     crowned with success, desired, destinal, destined, determined,
     disclosure, drawn to, due, emanating, emanative, emanent,
     emergence, emergent, emerging, ensuing, entering, epiphany,
     eventual, exposure, extrapolated, fatal, fated, fatidic, final,
     flowing toward, following, forthcoming, fortunate, future,
     futuristic, futurity, gathering, going to happen, hereafter,
     homeward, homeward-bound, hoped-for, immediate, immediate future,
     imminence, imminent, impendence, impendency, impendent, impending,
     in danger imminent, in prospect, in reserve, in store,
     in the cards, in the offing, in the wind, in view, inbound,
     incarnation, incoming, indirect, instant, inward-bound, issuance,
     issuing, last, later, loom, looming, lowering, lurking, made,
     manifestation, materialization, materializing, menacing, near,
     near at hand, near future, nearing, nearness, occurrence,
     on the horizon, on the up-and-up, on top, oncoming, opening,
     out in front, overhanging, owed, owing, payable, planned, plotted,
     predicted, preparing, presentation, probable, projected,
     prophesied, prospective, prosperous, proximate, proximation,
     reaching, realization, redeemable, revelation, rise, rising,
     secondary, showing, showing forth, succeeding, successful,
     surefire, surfacing, that will be, theophany, threatening,
     time drawing on, to come, to-be, transeunt, transient, triumphant,
     ultimate, unfolding, unfoldment, upcoming, waiting