Coming vs Visit - What's the difference?
coming | visit |
Approaching; of the future, especially the near future; the next.
* Byron
Deserved.
Newly in fashion; advancing into maturity or achievement.
(obsolete) Ready to come; complaisant; fond.
Of God: to appear to (someone) to comfort, bless, or chastise or punish them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)
* Bible, (w) i. 68
* 1611 , Bible , Authorized (King James) Version, (w) I.6:
To habitually go to (someone in distress, sickness etc.) to comfort them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)
(intransitive) To go and meet (a person) as an act of friendliness or sociability.
* 1788 , (Edward Gibbon), (The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire) , volume 68:
Of a sickness, misfortune etc.: to afflict (someone).
* 1890 , (James George Frazer), (The Golden Bough) :
To inflict punishment, vengeance for (an offense) (on) or (upon) someone.
* 2011 , John Mullan, The Guardian , 2 Dec 2011:
To go to (a shrine, temple etc.) for worship. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)
To go to (a place) for pleasure, on an errand, etc.
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A meeting with a doctor at their surgery or the doctor's at one's home.
As verbs the difference between coming and visit
is that coming is while visit is to shriek, scream, shrill, screech, squeal, squeak.As a noun coming
is the act of arriving; an arrival.As an adjective coming
is approaching; of the future, especially the near future; the next.coming
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* second comingAdjective
(-)- We expect great things from you this coming year.
- She will have two or three paintings in the coming exhibition.
- your coming days and years
- When he was fired, nobody was surprised or upset because they thought he had it coming .
- Ergonomic wallets are the coming thing.
- (Alexander Pope)
Derived terms
* coming on * up-and-comingAnagrams
* gnomicvisit
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Verb
(en verb)- [God] hath visited and redeemed his people.
- Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the LORD had visited his people in giving them bread.
- Her life was spared by the clemency of the emperor, but he visited the pomp and treasures of her palace.
- There used to be a sharp contest as to where the effigy was to be made, for the people thought that the house from which it was carried forth would not be visited with death that year.
- If this were an Ibsen play, we would be thinking of the sins of one generation being visited upon another, he said.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.}}
