TO COME TO

Definition: TO COME TO

TO COME TO

1. (a) To consent or yield. --Swift. (b) (Naut.) (with the accent on to) To luff; to bring the ship's head nearer the wind; to anchor. (c) (with the accent on to) To recover, as from a swoon. (d) To arrive at; to reach. (e) To amount to; as, the taxes come to a large sum. (f) To fall to; to be received by, as an inheritance. --Shak.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Conciseness

Adverb: concisely; Adjective: briefly, summarily; in brief, in short, in a word, in a few words; for shortness sake; to come to the point, to make a long story short, to cut the matter short, to be brief; it comes to this, the long and the short of it is.

Crosswords: TO COME TO

I had to come to prison to be a crook. (The Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont)

Would you like to come to dinner with Larry and me? (Groundhog Day; writing credit: Guy Ritchie)

You'll never get this many people to come to my funeral. (The Big Chill; writing credit: Barbara Benedek; Lawrence Kasdan)

Now, even the doggy-doggies used to come to Lazarus to lick his open running sores (Godspell; writing credit: David Greene; John-Michael Tebelak)

He's the one. Or do you want to wait for them to come to us? (The Faculty; writing credit: David Wechter; Bruce Kimmel)

And yawn and stretch and try to come to life ("9 to 5"; performing artist: Dolly Parton)

Yawnin', stretchin', try to come to life (9 To 5; performing artist: Dolly Parton)

A smile seemed to come to her slowly, (Taxi; performing artist: Harry Chapin)

And something warm to come to (Stand By Your Man; performing artist: Tammy Wynette)

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

Books

• Getting Business to Come to You: A Complete Do-It-Yourself Guide to Attracting All the Business You Can Enjoy (reference)

  (more book examples)

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The High Contracting Parties also agree that the stipulations of the Treaties of 1815 and of the other supplementary Acts concerning the free zones of Upper Savoy and the Gex district are no longer consistent with present conditions, and that it is for France and Switzerland to come to an agreement together with a view to settling between themselves the status of these territories under such conditions as shall be considered suitable by both countries. (reference)

I am glad to come to Westminster College this afternoon, and am complimented that you should give me a degree. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

You do well to come to see a man who is dying.

All day he had imagined a new meeting with her for he knew that she was to come to the play.

My lord, He wonders to what end you have assembled Such troops of citizens to come to him.

The camp had begun to come to life.

Without factitious support, man is sure to come to earth again beyond that distance.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Initial explanations of the disease and treatment may be lost as parents try to come to grips with the reality that their child has cancer. (references)

Business

To build a good business relationship, a foreign company may need to come to Japan regularly and must ship orders as promised. (references)

After the liberalization of the voice transmission in 2003 more foreign telecommunications companies are expected to come to the market, develop the telecommunications infrastructure and diversify the market of value-added services. (references)

Civil Liberties

Taiwan

The Government also revised regulations to permit PRC journalists to come to Taiwan for the first time ever. (references)

Macedonia

Continued tensions in the Presevo region of southern Serbia also generated potential for refugee flows during the year, but by year's end, only a small number of Presevo residents had chosen to come to the country; they did not enter as refugees, but rather as temporary visitors. (references)

Economic History

Croatia

Immediately, the new government was forced to come to terms with many issues. (references)

Human Rights

El Salvador

Because it may take several years for a case to come to trial, some prisoners have been incarcerated longer than the maximum legal sentence for their crimes. (references)

Minorities

United Kingdom

During parts of the year, UK immigration officials prescreened Czech airline travelers in Prague, including ethnic Roma, who sought to come to the United Kingdom. (references)

Ukraine

Local Tatars, who were not consulted about the placement of the cross, removed it. Through dialog Bishop Lazarus, Crimean Mufti Ablayev, Orthodox residents, and the local Crimean Tatar Mejlis (Council) were able to come to a peaceful settlement of the conflict over this cross by relocating it to a nearby hill overlooking a predominantly Orthodox community. (references)

Trade

Mexico

The importer's bank calls the importer to tell him that the documents have arrived, and to come to pay for them. (references)

Travel

South Africa

In addition to crime and security information, the CABB will contain data on a variety of consular subjects, including passports for U.S. citizens, emergencies involving U.S. citizens abroad, visas for foreigners wishing to come to the United States, acquisition and loss of U.S. citizenship, international adoptions and entry requirements for Americans wishing to travel to other countries. (references)

Worker Rights

Russia

Employers often ignore the requirement to negotiate and refuse to come to the bargaining table or refuse to provide financial information demanded by trade unions. (references)

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

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "TO COME TO": To come to a head ♦ To come to blows ♦ To come to grief ♦ To come to hand ♦ To come to light ♦ To come to one's self ♦ To come to pass ♦ To come to the front ♦ To come to the ground ♦ To come to the scratch ♦ To come to time. Additional references.

Chinese 

期滿 (to come to an end, to expire, to run out). (various references)

Dutch

een schikking treffen met zijn schuldeisers (to come to terms with one's creditors, to compound with one's creditors). (various references)

Finnish

tulisitteko (could you come to, would you like to come to), päästä sopimukseen velkojiensa kanssa (to come to terms with one's creditors, to compound with one's creditors), hieroa kauppaa (bargain, try to come to terms). (various references)

French

transiger avec ses créanciers (to come to terms with one's creditors, to compound with one's creditors). (various references)

German

zur Sache kommen (to come to business, to come to the point, to get down to brass tacks), jemanden in Schutz nehmen (to come to someone's defence), eine Entscheidung fällen (to come to a decision). (various references)

Hungarian

visszanyeri eszméletét (to be brought, to come back), odajön (come to), jön (came, come, to come, to come on, to find one's legs, to inflame, to run high), belemegy (acquiesce, go into, to go in). (various references)

Italian

transigere con i creditori (to come to terms with one's creditors, to compound with one's creditors). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

立ち至る . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たちいたる. (various references)

Pig Latin

otay omecay otay

Portuguese

transigir com os seus credores (to come to terms with one's creditors, to compound with one's creditors). (various references)

Swedish

träffa uppgörelse med sina fordringsägare (to come to terms with one's creditors, to compound with one's creditors). (various references)

devenio, pervenio, prevenire, venire contra. (various references)

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

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: comet, comte, motet, motte, motto, octet, totem.

-4 letters: come, coot, cote, moot, mote, mott, otto, tome, toom, toot, tote.

-5 letters: coo, cot, met, moc, moo, mot, oot, tet, toe, tom, too, tot.

+5 letters: cosmetologist, noncompetitor, onomatopoetic, thoracotomies.

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