TO COME IN

Definition: TO COME IN

TO COME IN

1. (a) To enter, as a town, house, etc. ``The thief cometh in.'' --Hos. vii. 1. (b) To arrive; as, when my ship comes in. (c) To assume official station or duties; as, when Lincoln came in. (d) To comply; to yield; to surrender. ``We need not fear his coming in'' --Massinger. (e) To be brought into use. ``Silken garments did not come in till late.'' --Arbuthnot. (f) To be added or inserted; to be or become a part of. (g) To accrue as gain from any business or investment. (h) To mature and yield a harvest; as, the crops come in well. (i) To have sexual intercourse; -- with to or unto. --Gen. xxxviii. 16. (j) To have young; to bring forth; as, the cow will come in next May. [U. S.]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Crosswords: TO COME IN

What did you expect, to come in here and fix everything? (Get Carter; writing credit: David McKenna)

- Mr. Wentworth just told me to come in here and say that there was trouble at the mill, that's all - I didn't expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition! (Monty Python's Flying Circus; writing credit: Douglas Adams; Graham Chapman)

Debbie, tell them to come in. (All the President's Men; writing credit: James Kevin McGuinness; George S. Kaufman)

You were supposed to come in Saturday! (Office Space; writing credit: Mike Judge)

I remember the voice of the first white man who told me not to come in his store. (Law & Order; writing credit: Peter Yeldham)

Don't wait for your ship to come in. Row out to meet it. (references; author: unknown)

Sign on a church bulletin board: You aren't too bad to come in. You aren't good enough to stay out. (references; author: unknown)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Don't Wait for Your Ship to Come In...Swim Out to Meet It!: Bite-Sized Inspirations to Help You Achieve Your Dreams (reference)

• Atemi Cobra-Jujitsu: Martial Arts for the Millenium Years to Come in the New Generation (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Fur trappers and his two children waiting for the bids on the next lot of muskrats to come in. The auction sale is being held in a dance hall on Delaroix Island, Saint Bernard Parish, Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress.

Housewives at the seashore waiting for the fishing boats to come in Frederiksted, Saint Croix, Virgin Islands. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Marius stopped at the door, as if waiting to be asked to come in.

They were waiting for the door to open and for the servants to come in, holding the big dishes covered with their heavy metal covers.

For those who had seen me made such wonderful reports, that the people were ready to break down the doors to come in.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Economic History

Sri Lanka

Public Sector salaries and pensions are estimated to come in at Rs 72 billion. (references)

Liberia

However, significant amounts of aid continue to come in from Western countries through international aid agencies and non-governmental organizations, avoiding direct aid to the government. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "TO COME IN": To come in at the hawse holes ♦ To come in for. Additional references.

Chinese 

進 (advance, enter). (various references)

Finnish

minut käskettiin sisälle (I was told to come in). (various references)

German

gelegen kommen (to come in handy). (various references)

Hungarian

hatalomra jut (to come into power, to get power), divatba jön (to come in fashion, to come into vogue, to take on), bejön (come in, to enter). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

入る (to accommodate, to break into, to contain, to enroll, to enter, to flow into, to get in, to go in, to have, to hold, to join, to set, to set in). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

いる (to be, to boil down, to broil, to cast, to coin, to exist, to fire, to flow into, to fry, to get in, to go in, to mint, to need, to parch, to roast, to set, to set in, to shoot). (various references)

Pig Latin

otay omecay inay

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: centimo, coontie, emotion, tonemic.

-2 letters: cootie, income, motion, noetic, notice.

-3 letters: cento, comet, comte, conte, conto, mince, monie, monte, nomoi, ontic, tonic.

-4 letters: cent, cine, cion, cite, coin, come, cone, coni, coon, coot, cote, emic, emit, etic, icon, into, item, meno, mice, mien, mine, mint, mite, mono, moon, moot, mote, nice, nite, nome, note.

+1 letter: economist, microtone.

+2 letters: completion, economists, metronomic, microtones, monostelic, nomothetic, teleonomic.

+3 letters: axonometric, bicomponent, competition, completions, coterminous, econometric, embrocation, endomitotic, goniometric, monogenetic, mucoprotein, nondomestic, omnipotence.

+4 letters: antieconomic, chronometric, commendation, commonalties, companionate, compellation, compensation, competitions, complexation, componential, concomitance, condemnation, conformities, contemporize, conterminous, contumelious, craniotomies, econometrics, econometrist, embrocations, metronomical, monometallic, monophyletic, monotheistic, mucoproteins, noncombative, noncommitted, nondomestics, noneconomist, nonhemolytic, normothermic, omnipotences, onomatopoeic, outcompeting.

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