come to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʌm ˈtu/
ipa: /ˈkʌm tu/
Forms: form: comes to
form: coming to
form: came to
form: come to
Senses: examples: text: She came to with the aid of smelling salts.
synonyms: come to one's senses
come back to one's senses
come round
come around
glosses: To recover consciousness after fainting etc.
examples: text: The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come to and wait for the turn of the tide.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To stop a sailing vessel, especially by turning into the wind. See also come about.
examples: text: so how much does that come to?; the bill comes to £10 each
glosses: To total; to amount to.
examples: text: come to an end; come to a conclusion; come to an agreement; come to a halt
text: I don't know what the world is coming to! Everything seems so crazy these days.
text: Dotcom mania was slow in coming to higher education, but now it has the venerable industry firmly in its grip. Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations.
ref: 2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
glosses: To reach; to arrive at.
examples: text: You can always come to me when you're feeling sad.
glosses: To seek help from.
examples: text: I'll come to your question in a minute.
glosses: To devote attention to in due course; to come around to.
examples: text: I pray no harm will come to you.
text: My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter III, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
synonyms: affect
glosses: To befall; to happen to; to come upon.
examples: text: He's the best when it comes to detective fiction.
text: When it comes to remorseless criminals, this guy takes the cake.
glosses: To regard or specifically pertain to.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, to.
Derived terms: come back to one's senses
come to a boil
come to a close
come to a head
come to an end
come to a sticky end
come to blows
come to grief
come to grips
come to grips with
come to hand
come to Jesus
come to life
come to light
come to mention it
come to mind
come to naught
come to nothing
come to nought
come to oneself
come to one's hand
come to one's senses
come to order
come to papa
come to pass
come to power
come to someone's aid
come to someone's assistance
come to someone's rescue
come to terms
come to terms with
come to that
come to the fore
come to the party
come to think of it
come to time
Daniel come to judgement
when it comes to
when push comes to shove
worst comes to worst