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COME TOGETHER
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Come together, as if in an embrace
Example:
Her arms closed around her long lost relative
Synonyms:
close; come together
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "come together" is one way to...):
move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)
Sentence frame:
Something is ----ing PP
Context examples:
That this dog and White Fang should come together was inevitable, and for a week the anticipated fight was the mainspring of conversation in certain quarters of the town.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
When white man's trouble and Siwash trouble come together and make a trouble, it is a great trouble, beyond understanding and without end.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Buvons, mon gar., for it is not every day that two old friends come together.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A tiny particle made of substances that are soluble in water and that come together to form a ball-like shape.
(Micelle, NCI Dictionary)
Many canaliculi come together to form bile ductules that ultimately form the common hepatic duct.
(Bile Canaliculus, NCI Thesaurus)
This new study, however, has found that the reason why microbial plankton come together in complex, cohesive groups is to collectively face the nutrient-poor heterogeneous ecological landscape they live in.
(Study by UGR and MIT reveals microbial plankton live in complex communities, University of Granada)
Acrylonitrile molecules could come together as a sheet of material similar to a cell membrane.
(NASA Finds Moon of Saturn Has Chemical That Could Form ‘Membranes’, NASA)
For what reason under the sun do men and women come together if not for the exchange of the best that is in them?
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
To-morrow in the morning early you call for me, and we come together to see our pretty miss, so much more strong for my 'spell' which I have work.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
These factors and other transcription factors like AP-1 and SRF (serum response factor) that respond to many different signaling pathways come together to regulate a variety of complex promoters and enhancers that respond to IL-6 and other signaling factors.
(IL6 Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
