Arrival vs Oncome - What's the difference?
arrival | oncome |
The act of arriving or something that has arrived.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5
, passage=We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner.}}
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=5, title= The attainment of an objective, especially as a result of effort.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (rare) To arrive; come to; come on.
*1844 , Homerus, The Iliad, rendered in Homeric verse, by L. Shadwell :
*1999 , Alfred Corn, Stake: poems, 1972-1992 :
Advent, arrival, approach; onset
*1978 , Edna O'Brien, I hardly knew you :
The commencement or initial stages of a business, especially of one which requires great exertion.
The setting about of an action; development; progress.
An attack; an attack or onset of a disease, fit, or episode.
*1881 , American journal of obstetrics and diseases of women and children: Volume 14 :
*1906 , Appleton's magazine: Volume 7 :
(dialectal) A mysterious disease or ailment.
*1858 , Sir Walter Scott, The bride of Lammermoor :
(dialectal) A heavy fall of rain or snow; cloudburst.
(of a chimney) The lower edge of a fire-clay lining piece.
As nouns the difference between arrival and oncome
is that arrival is the act of arriving or something that has arrived while oncome is advent, arrival, approach; onset.As a verb oncome is
(rare) to arrive; come to; come on.arrival
English
Noun
(en noun)A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.
Out of the gloom, passage=[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.}}
Antonyms
* departureoncome
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) oncomen, from (etyl) oncuman, .Verb
- This said, and shaking his long dark spear, then forward he hurl'd it Into the fullround buckler of Priamides Alexander; Right thro' his glittering shield oncame the redoubtable warspear, On still advanced, throughpiercing his breastplate's various-art-work [...]
- A trip from you. Taken. . . . Then time oncame [...]
Etymology 2
From (etyl) . More at (l), (l).Noun
(en noun)- I see the dawn or rather I feel the oncome of it.
- On inquiry it was found that this neurosis corresponded in time with the oncome of the catamenia.
- "She often has oncomes ," explained Angus shortly. "But now we will tell, for though but children, we talk straighter."
- This woman had acquired a considerable reputation among the ignorant by the pretended cures which she performed, especially in oncomes , as the Scotch call them, or mysterious diseases, which baffle the regular physician.