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COME IN
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal
Example:
Jerry came in third in the Marathon
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Hypernyms (to "come in" is one way to...):
rank (take or have a position relative to others)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s Adjective/Noun
Somebody ----s Adjective
Sense 2
Meaning:
To insert between other elements
Example:
She interjected clever remarks
Synonyms:
come in; inject; interject; interpose; put in; throw in
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "come in" is one way to...):
break up; cut off; disrupt; interrupt (make a break in)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Sense 3
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 in" is one way to...):
arrive; come; get (reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sense 4
Meaning:
To come or go into
Example:
the boat entered an area of shallow marshes
Synonyms:
come in; enter; get in; get into; go in; go into; move into
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "come in"):
take the field (go on the playing field, of a football team)
penetrate; perforate (pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance)
re-enter (enter again)
file in (enter by marching in a file)
pop in (enter briefly)
walk in (enter by walking)
call at; out in (enter a harbor)
take water (enter the water)
turn in (make an entrance by turning from a road)
board; get on (get on board of (trains, buses, ships, aircraft, etc.))
intrude; irrupt (enter uninvited)
encroach upon; intrude on; invade; obtrude upon (to intrude upon, infringe, encroach on, violate)
dock (come into dock)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sense 5
Meaning:
Come into fashion; become fashionable
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "come in" is one way to...):
change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)
Domain category:
fashion (the latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behavior)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Antonym:
go out (go out of fashion; become unfashionable)
Context examples:
This is wonderful news because it shows you will be able to handle the extra work that is about to come in, for you will have helpers you can trust.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
HFAs come in a variety of scale sizes – from around 600 miles across at Venus to closer to 60,000 miles across at Saturn.
(Messenger spots giant space weather effects at Mercury, NASA)
Almost all the polar cyclones, at both poles, are so densely packed that their spiral arms come in contact with adjacent cyclones.
(Jupiter’s Jet-Streams Are Unearthly, NASA)
By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at all.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I was laid by the heels for ten days, but Trevor used to come in to inquire after me.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I want you to come with me, and to come in secret, to the churchyard at Kingstead.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
But I cannot believe, and now I ask you if snow never come in that country.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Let go that foreboom tackle and pass it across, and when she’s willing let go the sheet and come in snug with the tackle.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
You have come in good time to fight our enemy and bring peace to all the animals of the forest once more.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
He did not try to run away, but retreated around and around the camp, advertising plainly that when his desire was met, he would come in and be good.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
