Come In

Definition: Come In

Come In

Verb

1. To come or go into: "the boat entered an area of shallow marshes".

2. Be received, as of news on the radio or television; "News came in of the massacre in Rwanda".

3. Come into fashion; become fashionable.

4. To insert between other elements: "She interjected clever remarks.".

5. Take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal; "Jerry came in third in the Marathon".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Come In

Acquisition

Come by, come in for; receive; inherit; step into a fortune, step into the shoes of; succeed to.

Apportionment

Come in for one's share; (participate).

Arrival

Light, alight, dismount; land, go ashore; debark, disembark; put in, put into; visit, cast anchor, pitch one's tent; sit down; (be located); get to one's journey's end; make the land; be in at the death; come back, get back, come home, get home; return; come in; (ingress); make one's appearance; (appear); drop in; detrain, deplane; outspan; de-orbit.

Come to hand; come at, come across; hit; come upon, light upon, pop upon, bounce upon, plump upon, burst upon, pitch upon; meet; encounter, rencounter; come in contact.

Contiguity

Verb: be contiguous; Adjective: join, adjoin, abut on, march with; graze, touch, meet, osculate, come in contact, coincide; coexist; adhere.

Disclosure

Be disclosed; transpire, come to light; come in sight; (be visible); become known, escape the lips; come out, ooze out, creep out, leak out, peep out, crop-out; show its face, show its colors; discover; itself; break through the clouds, flash on the mind.

Inattention

Escape notice, escape attention; come in at one ear and go out at the other; forget; (have no remembrance).

Ingress

Verb: have the entree; enter; go into, go in, come into, come in, pour into, pour in, flow into, flow in, creep into, creep in, slip into, slip in, pop into, pop in, break into, break in, burst into, burst in; set foot on; ingress; burst in upon, break in upon; invade, intrude; insinuate itself; interpenetrate, penetrate; infiltrate; find one's way into, wriggle into, worm oneself into.

Oblivion

Forget one's own name, have on the tip of one's tongue, come in one ear and go out the other.

Opposition

Contradict, contravene; belie; go against, run against, beat against, militate against; come in conflict with.

Participation

Verb: participate, partake; share, share in; come in for a share; go shares, go snacks, go halves; share and share alike.

Possession

Inherit; come to, come in for.

Property

Verb: possess; be the possessor; of; own; have for one's own, have for one's very own; come in for, inherit.

Receiving

Be received; come in, come to hand; pass into one's hand, fall into one's hand; go into one's pocket; fall to one's lot, fall to one's share; come to one, fall to one; accrue; have given; to one.

Regularity of recurrence Periodicity

Verb: recur in regular order, recur in regular succession; return, revolve; come again, come in its turn; come round, come round again; beat, pulsate; alternate; intermit.

Crosswords: Come In

They come in all sizes, honey, just like shoes. (My Girl; writing credit: Laurice Elehwany. Starring Dan Aykroyd as Harry Sultenfuss, Jamie Lee Curtis as Shelly DeVoto, Macaulay Culkin as Thomas J. Sennett, and Anna Chlumsky as Vada Sultenfuss.)

I was quit when I come in here, Bryant, I'm twice as quit now. (Blade Runner; writing credit: Philip K. Dick; Hampton Fancher)

I come in here, and right away I'm catching the sight lines and looking for an exit. (The Bourne Identity; writing credit: Tony Gilroy)

But George, you said our ship has come in. (The Jetsons; writing credit: Aarne Tarkas)

In a tight jam, a nuclear missile just might come in handy. (Radioactive Dreams; writing credit: Albert Pyun)

When I start rappin' the girlies wanna come in (Get Ready For This; performing artist: 2 Unlimited)

I'll come, I'll come in a hurry! (I Care 4 U; performing artist: Aaliyah)

You come in to look for a King ("Dancing Queen"; performing artist: Abba)

I knew that this moment would come in time (Standing At The Edge Of The Earth; performing artist: Blessid Union Of Souls)

Won't come in from the rain. (Maria; performing artist: Blondie)

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

Why do croutons come in airtight packages? Aren't they just stale bread to begin with? (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)

The only thing I like about the stones that come in my way is, once I pass across them, they automatically become my milestones! (references; author: unknown)

I Come in Peace (1990)

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)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• I Come in Peace (reference)

• Joni Mitchell: Come in from the Cold (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Cactuses Come in Flocks (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

Jellyfish come in many forms, many too fragile to capture in nets. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Macroalgae come in many shapes and sizes, from microscopic to tens of meters. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Field workers whose bare hands come in contact with the water of infected streams are required to rinse ... with alcohol immediately. / [WHO photo]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Washington cook (to mistress in the hall)--"Shure, ye can't come in. We've gone into executive session, and we're cookin up something to surprise ye". Credit: Library of Congress.

Dottie and Lottie]. Come in out of the wet, kid : there's room enough for two in here! ; I'll bet that's him no. Credit: Library of Congress.

"What's this about your letting the common people come in here and read books?". Credit: Library of Congress.

They like to "see the cars come in," Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress.

New York draft workers busy as numbers come in. Credit: Library of Congress.

Cot house in the oil town of Hobbs, New Mexico. Hobbs is now experiencing a boom and the cot houses are necessary for the swarms of workers who come in. This is typical of all oil boom towns. Credit: Library of Congress.

Typical scene in pool and beer hall. Spencer, Iowa. Farmers come in from country on Saturday and the pool halls are usually crowded. Women are rarely seen in these halls. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

If any mischief come in such cases, it is not to be charged upon him who defends his own right, but on him that invades his neighbours. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

They would hardly come in their chaise, I think, at that season of the year.

You can always come in and go out by the front door.

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.

New guys come in, and guys go out.

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

One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the Spring come in.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

They come in the form of eyedrops and pills. (references)

These transporter molecules come in several forms. (references)

Genes come in pairs, with one copy inherited from each parent. (references)

Business

In the residential subsector, U.S. manufacturers come in second place after Italian brands with a 20 percent market share. (references)

Japanese manufacturers come in second place with a three percent share and companies from the United Arab Emirates UAE hold a two percent market share. (references)

The German Law for Foodstuffs and Commodities (LMBG - Lebensmittel und Bedarfsgegenstaendegesetz) regulates foodstuffs and all commodities, which may come in contact with the human, body "not only for a short time." With very few exceptions, textiles pertain to these statutes. (references)

Economic History

Sri Lanka

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

Japan

The most extensive changes, and much of the recent FDI flows, have come in the financial services and telecommunications sectors. (references)

Uzbekistan

Much of the foreign investment that has come in to Uzbekistan since independence has been focused on natural resource extraction and processing. (references)

Trade

Uzbekistan

Banks are required to convert all earnings as they come in each quarter until the government-determined quota is met. (references)

Travel

Mexico

Rains, often torrential, usually come in the late afternoon and can tie up traffic. (references)

Cote D'ivoire

Taxes come in the form of payroll, unemployment, income, and pension contributions (always 1.2 percent of personal income). (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 "come in": be sure and come in time! ♦ come in at one ear and go out at the other ♦ come in between ♦ come in conflict with ♦ come in contact ♦ come in for ♦ come in for a share of ♦ come in for one's share ♦ come in for praise ♦ come in force ♦ come in handy ♦ come in multitude ♦ come in nothing ♦ come in on ♦ come in one ear and go out the other ♦ come in one's way ♦ come in possession ♦ come in question ♦ come in sight ♦ come in suddenly ♦ come in swarms ♦ come in time ♦ come in to land ♦ come in useful ♦ come in view ♦ it will come in handy ♦ To come in ♦ To come in at the hawse holes ♦ To come in for. Additional references.

Albanian

hyj në përdorim, hyj (come, enter, get in, go, go in, penetrate, perform, shrink, soak, turn in). (various references)

Arabic 

‏إرتفع (advance, arise, ascend, aspire, climb, flow, hike, lift, lift off, mount, snowball, soar, spring, tower, uplift), ‏أدخل (allow, bill, heel, inject, insert, introduce, let in, press, put in, send in, show in, slot, squeeze, take in, yield), ‏دخل (enter, extract, get in, go in, income, march, move in, proceeds, revenue, roll, run, sink, step inside, take, taking, turn in, yield). (various references)

Bulgarian 

влизам (bob in, enter, get in, get into, go, go in, hive, incur, inure, pass in, pass into, pull in, put in, step in, turn in, walk in), започвам (begin, commence, enter, enter on, fall to, get under way, handsel, initiate, institute, jump off, kick off, lead, lead off, open, preface, premise, roll, set in, set out on, set up, settle in, start off, start up, take off, tee off, teethe, trigger), идвам на мода (take on). (various references)

Chinese 

進來 . (various references)

Czech

zdìdit (inherit), vstoupit (enter, get in, go in, go into, walk in, walk into), vplout (enter, swim in), vjet (enter), umístit se, ujmout se moci, přiletìt, přijít (arrive, come, come up), nastat (arrive, close in, set in, supervene, turn up). (various references)

Danish

spiralformede vaegtroer kaldes ogsaa letslippende vaegtroer og findes i to profiler (and come in two configurations, spiral drill collars are also called anti-stick collars). (various references)

Dutch

de spiraalvormige zwaarstangen worden ook antikleef-zwaarstangen genoemd;deze bestaan met twee profielen (and come in two configurations, spiral drill collars are also called anti-stick collars). (various references)

Finnish

astukaa sisälle (please), astukaa sisään (please). (various references)

French

se monter, entrer dans, entrer. (various references)

German

hereinkommen (come into, enter, flow, get in, pop in, to come inside, to step in, walk in, walk into), herein (in), eintreten (advocacy, come, enlist, enter, enter upon, espousal, espouse, eventuate, eventuation, fall, go in, join, kick down, kick in, occur, perform, set in, step in, to eventuate, to tread in, to tread into, tread in, wear in), einsetzen (appoint, begin, bring into action, bring into play, come on, constitute, deploy, employ, enter, enthrone, exert, fit in, gamble, implant, inaugurate, insert, inset, install, invest, lay on, let, let in, move in, play, ply, put away, put in, put on, reinsert, risk, send in, send on, set, set in, set up, stake, start, stow, to constitute, to enthrone, to insert, to instate, to patch, to reinsert, to set in, use), einlaufen (arrive, be received, enter, finish, pull in, run in, shrink, shrinkage, wear in), einkommen (competence, earnings, income, return, revenue, revenues), eingehen (arrive, be adopted, be catchy, be received, contract, enter, enter into, fold, go under, incur, leave its mark, pine away, shrink, shrinkage, sink in, take up, undertake), einfallen (be incident, become sunken, break in, cave in, chime in, collapse, fall, invade, join in, occur, set in), einfahren (bed in, break in, bring in, draw in, knock down, pull in, retract, run in). (various references)

Greek 

εισέρχομαι (enter, entrain, get in, go in, go into). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"כ� ס (enter, get in, go in, step in). (various references)

Hungarian

megérkezik (arrive, came, check in, come, roll up, to arrive, to come, to come to hand, to rive, to roll up), bejön (to come in, to enter). (various references)

Indonesian

menggulung (come in rolls, convolve, defeat, scroll, waves, wreathe), antuk (come in contact with, touch). (various references)

Italian

entrare (enter, entry, espousal, eventuate, eventuation, get in, go, go in, go out, join, occur, perform, soak in, step in, to enter, walk in). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

現れる (to appear, to become visible, to come in sight). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ではじめる (to begin to appear, to begin to come in), せっする (to attend, to be moderate of, to come in contact with, to connect, to curtail, to receive, to save), いる (to be, to boil down, to broil, to cast, to coin, to come in, 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), あらわれる (to appear, to become visible, to come in sight, to come out, to embody, to express oneself, to materialize). (various references)

Manx

cheet stiagh (check in, enter, income, influx, revenue). (various references)

Pig Latin

omecay inay

Portuguese

tomar posse, entrar (come, enter, get in, go in, penetrate, perform, receive, run in, step into, to enter). (various references)

Romanian

sosi (arrive, be in, come, come down, end up, get, go in, land), se maturiza (mature, season), se dovedi (approve oneself), se coace (cook, maturate, mature, parch, ripen), pãtrunde (filter, interpenetrate, penetrate, perceive, percolate, perforate, permeate, pervade, see into, sink, touch, understand), juca un rol, intrã (walk inside), intra (enter, get in, get into, go, go in, look in, perform, step in, wind oneself), începe sã fie folosit. (various references)

Russian 

входить (bob in, bob into, come into, enter, get in, get into, go in, penetrate, perform, step in, step into). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ući (drive in, enter, get in, get into, go into), prodirati (infiltrate, penetrate). (various references)

Spanish

crecer (accrue, come on, grow, grow up, increase, luxuriate, make, polish, rise, shoot, shoot up, steepen, swell, wax), tomar parte (go in for, inform, intervene, join, join in, partake, tackle, take part), subir por (hike), ponerse de moda (take on), pase (entrance card, go by, go past, pass, permit, you may pass, you pass), pasar (blow over, bypass, come, come about, come by, come down, come off, cross, dilute, draw, elapse, enact, ensue, expend, function, gait, get, get across, get by, get over, get through, give, go, go by, go off, go on, go over, go past, go through, goffer, hand, hand down, hand on, hand over, happen, kick around, knot, lapse, last, light out, line, live, live through, move, occupy, occur, outdo, overstep, overtake, pass, pass across, pass away, pass by, pass off, pass on, pass round, passing, pop in, post, proceed, put across, put down, reach, relay, render, ride by, roll by, run, shift, skip, smuggle, spend, strain, suffer, swallow, take away, throw out, tick away, tick by, to pass, to spend, touch, tough, turn, turn about, turn around, turn over, wear off, wear on, while), pasa (is happening, pass, raisin), participar (attend, enter into, go in for, inform, intervene, join, join in, partake, participate, tackle, take part), llegar (arrive, blow in, break through, bring up, catch, come, come across, come of, come over, come round, come through, dock, draw in, end up, get, get around, get in, immigrate, infiltrate, invade, jockey, land, last out, pass, pull in, reach, ride up, roll along, roll in, roll up, spend, throw out, to arrive, top off, touch down, travel, turn up, vaporize), imponerse (assert oneself, grow up, impose oneself), entrar (access, approach, attack, bob in, bring in, call in, capture, draw in, enter, fit, get at, get in, go in, go up, input, introduce, invade, march in, pass in, perform, pull in, put in, rise, sail in, show in, step in, tackle, to enter, wade in, walk in), adelante (ahead, foreward, forth, forward, forwards, frontwards, go ahead, go to it, on, onward, onwards, straight ahead, upstair, upstairs, yeah, yes), acceder al poder. (various references)

Swedish

komma till makten, komma på modet, komma in (come through), komma i mål (finish), inflyta, falla in (fall in, strike in). (various references)

Turkish

yaygın olmak (come up, go about, go around, prevail), tutulmak (attack, attaint, be at a premium, be enamored of, be enamoured of, be held, be in a request, be smitten with, be stuck, be stuck on, be taken, be taken with, catch on, come up, drop, go into, have a crush on smb., incur, indulge, make a hit, smite, stiffen), sağlamak (accommodate, accommodate smb. with, arm, assure, carry, cater, cater for, derive, enlist, ensure, extract, fend for, find, fix, fix up, furnish, get out of, implement, keep, lay in, lay on, maintain, make, obtain, procure, provide, provide with, provision, purvey, secure, suck, supply, yield), içeriye girmek (enter, get in, step in, walk in), içeri girmek (drive in, enter, get in, pass into, step in, walk in), girmek (be enroled, be enrolled, come into, draw into, enter, enter into, enter on, enter upon, gain admission, get in, go, go in, go into, incur, insert, key, key in, keyboard, pull, sail in, sink into, slide into, slip into, step, step in, strike in, type into, walk in, walk into), girin, buyrun (go ahead, help yourself, here you are, please come in, you are welcome), almak (accept, accomplish, achieve, acquire, admit, assume, attain, borrow, buy, capture, collect, conquer, divest smb. of, draw, enter on, enter upon, enucleate, excise, extract, fetch, gain, garner, get, govern, have, help oneself to, hold, induct, lay hold of, let in, obtain, occupy, pick up, pull off, purchase, put on, receive, seat, seize, sweep off, take, take from, take in, take on, take over, take up, to buy, withdraw, wreak). (various references)

Ukrainian

вступати у (come into), входьте, входити (enter, get in, go in, go into, log on, move in, step in, walk in), приходити (arrive, come, roll in). (various references)

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

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

Misspellings

"Come In" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Comelin. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: income.

-1 letter: mince, monie.

-2 letters: cine, cion, coin, come, cone, coni, emic, icon, meno, mice, mien, mine, nice, nome, omen, once.

-3 letters: con, eon, ice, ion, men, moc, mon, nim, nom, one.

-4 letters: em, en, in, me, mi, mo, ne, no, oe, om, on.

+1 letter: centimo, combine, demonic, encomia, genomic, incomer, incomes, mesonic, tonemic.

+2 letters: anoxemic, becoming, cameoing, centimos, coinmate, combined, combiner, combines, comedian, comingle, compline, daemonic, demoniac, economic, encomium, eponymic, incomers, intercom, meconium, mnemonic, monecian, monicker, myogenic, neomycin, noncrime, pentomic, phonemic, sermonic.

+3 letters: aeronomic, becomings, bemocking, campesino, centesimo, coempting, coinmates, columbine, combiners, comedians, comingled, comingles, commingle, comminute, communise, communize, companied, companies, compendia, compering, competing, complines, condiment, confirmed, conominee, cremation, crimsoned, cuneiform, demoniacs, demonical, dominance, economics, economies, economise, economist, economize, egomaniac, embryonic, encomiast, encomiums, encrimson, ergonomic, geomantic, gynoecium, hegemonic, ichneumon, impotence, impotency, incommode, indecorum, intercoms, macedoine, manticore, meconiums, melanotic, merocrine, metonymic, micronize, microtone, miscoined, misreckon, mitogenic, mnemonics, monecious, monickers, monocline, monoecies, monoecism, monogenic, monomeric, neomycins, noncrimes, nonmetric, phonemics, pneumonic, policeman, policemen, princedom, recombine, recombing, reconfirm, semicolon, semitonic, tectonism, welcoming.