Come vs Comb - What's the difference?
come | comb |
(label) To move from further away to nearer to.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* (1809-1892)
# To move towards the speaker.
# To move towards the listener.
# To move towards the object that is the of the sentence.
# (label) To move towards the or subject of the main clause.
# To move towards an unstated agent.
(label) To arrive.
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, passage=Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps,
(label) To appear, to manifest itself.
* (1613-1680), (Hudibras)
(label) To take a position to something else in a sequence.
To achieve orgasm; to cum.
To approach a state of being or accomplishment.
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To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.
To become, to turn out to be.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
(label) To be supplied, or made available; to exist.
(label) To carry through; to succeed in.
(label) Happen.
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, title= To have a social background.
# To be or have been a resident or native.
# To have been brought up by or employed by.
To germinate.
(obsolete) Coming, arrival; approach.
* 1869 , RD Blackmoore, Lorna Doone , II:
(slang) Semen, or female ejaculatory discharge.
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An exclamation to express annoyance.
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An exclamation to express encouragement, or to precede a request.
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*:“I'm through with all pawn-games,” I laughed. “Come , let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”.
A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place.
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*:There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs;.
A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
A fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest.
A structure of hexagon cells made by bees for storing honey; honeycomb.
An old English measure of corn equal to the half quarter.
*1882 , James Edwin (Thorold Rogers), ,
*:But the comb or half quarter is very general in the Eastern counties, particularly in Norfolk.
The top part of a gun’s stock.
The toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between the moving stairs and fixed landings.
(music) The main body of a harmonica containing the air chambers and to which the reed plates are attached.
A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening soft fibre.
A toothed tool used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen in scorpions.
The curling crest of a wave; a comber.
A toothed plate used for creating wells in agar gels for electrophoresis.
(weaving) A toothed wooden pick used to push the weft thread tightly against the previous pass of thread to create a tight weave.
(especially of hair or fur) To groom with a toothed implement; chiefly with a .
To separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb.
(nautical) To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.
As verbs the difference between come and comb
is that come is to (to consume food) while comb is (especially of hair or fur) to groom with a toothed implement; chiefly with a.As a noun comb is
a toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place or comb can be (abbreviation) combination.come
English
(wikipedia come)Verb
- Look, who comes yonder?
- I did not come to curse thee.
- when butter does refuse to come [i.e. to form]
- How come you thus estranged?
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Usage notes
In its general sense, come'' specifically marks motion towards the (whether explicitly stated or not). Its counterpart, usually referring to motion away from or not involving the deictic centre, is ''go''. For example, the sentence "Come to the tree" implies contextually that the speaker is already at the tree - "Go to the tree" often implies that the speaker is elsewhere. Either the speaker or the listener can be the deictic centre - the sentences "I will go to you" and "I will come to you" are both valid, depending on the exact nuances of the context. When there is no clear speaker or listener, the deictic centre is usually the focus of the sentence or the topic of the piece of writing. "Millions of people came''' to America from Europe" would be used in an article about America, but "Millions of people ' went to America from Europe" would be used in an article about Europe. When used with adverbs of location, come'' is usually paired with ''here'' or ''hither''. In interrogatives, ''come'' usually indicates a question about source - "Where are you coming from?" - while ''go indicates a question about destination - "Where are you going?" or "Where are you going to?" A few old texts use comen as the past participle. The phrase "dream come true" is a set phrase; the verb "come" in the sense "become" is archaic outside of that set phrase and the collocation "come about". The collocations “come with” and “come along” mean accompany, used as “Do you want to come with me?” and “Do you want to come along?” In the Midwestern American dialect, “come with” can occur without a following object, as in “Do you want to come with?” In this dialect, “with” can also be used in this way with some other verbs, such as “take with”. Examples of this may be found in plays by Chicagoan (David Mamet), such as (American Buffalo).Chicago DialectThis objectless use is not permissible in other dialects.
Antonyms
*Derived terms
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* cam'st * kingdom comeNoun
(-)- “If we count three before the come of thee, thwacked thou art, and must go to the women.”
See also
* cumPreposition
(English prepositions)- Leave it to settle for about three months and, come Christmas time, you'll have a delicious concoctions to offer your guests.
- Come retirement, their Social Security may turn out to be a lot less than they counted on.
- Come the final whistle, Mikel Arteta lay flabbergasted on the turf.
Usage notes
* is often used when both the indicated event, period or change in state occurred in the past.Interjection
(en interjection)References
Statistics
* 1000 English basic words 200 English basic words English copulative verbs English irregular past participles English irregular verbs English past participles English prepositions English terms with homophones English verb forms using redundant wikisyntax English verbs with base form identical to past participle Italian interrogative adverbs ----comb
English
(Wikipedia)Noun
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