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Comet vs Comes - What's the difference?

comet | comes |

As a noun comet

is (astronomy) a celestial body consisting mainly of ice, dust and gas in a (usually very eccentric) orbit around the sun and having a "tail" of matter blown back from it by the solar wind as it approaches the sun.

As a verb comes is

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comet

English

(wikipedia comet)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (astronomy) A celestial body consisting mainly of ice, dust and gas in a (usually very eccentric) orbit around the Sun and having a "tail" of matter blown back from it by the solar wind as it approaches the Sun.
  • A celestial phenomenon with the appearance given by the orbiting celestial body.
  • Any of several species of hummingbird found in the Andes.

    • Synonyms

    * (l)

    Derived terms

    * cometary * cometoid * exocomet

    Related terms

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    comes

    English

    Etymology 1

    Verb

    (head)
  • (come)
  • * intransitive verb '>citation
  • * transitive verb (obsolete) '>citation

    • Etymology 2

    (etyl) (lena), a companion.

    Noun

  • (music) The answer to the theme, or dux, in a fugue.
    • (Webster 1913)

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