Coming Back

Definition: Coming Back

Coming Back

Noun

1. The occurrence of a change in direction back in the opposite direction.

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

Synonym: Coming Back

Crosswords: Coming Back

You are coming back with me to Seattle where I will demand a full pardon, a parade, and a little pink poodle (Double Jeopardy; writing credit: David Weisberg; Douglas Cook)

The Humvees ain't coming back for us, dude (Black Hawk Down; writing credit: Ken Nolan)

No, it isn't coming back, God damn it (The Bourne Identity; writing credit: Tony Gilroy)

It's kind of karmic the way it keeps circling around and coming back to you. (Vengeance Unlimited; writing credit: Andrew Davies; William Makepeace Thackeray)

Tell me about it, I'm trying to find myself don't bother coming back to the digiworld, Tai. You'll just corrupt the universe (Digimon: Digital Monsters; writing credit: Dayna Barron)

That it's all coming back to me (It's all coming back to me now; performing artist: Celine Dion)

I don't know why I keep coming back to you (Keep Coming Back; performing artist: Richard Marx)

Are you ever coming back in my life (Back Here; performing artist: BBMak)

I know you're coming back so why am I dying inside (Standing At The Edge Of The Earth; performing artist: Blessid Union Of Souls)

Foreman says these jobs are going boys and they ain't coming back to (MY HOMETOWN; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen)

Coming Back (1926)

Keep Coming Back (performing artist: Richard Marx)

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Books

• Bedroom Games: Stripteases, Seductions, and Other Surprises to Keep Your Partner Coming Back for More (reference)

• Coming Back Alive (reference)

• Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World (reference)

• Customer Satisfaction Is Worthless, Customer Loyalty Is Priceless : How to Make Customers Love You, Keep Them Coming Back and Tell Everyone They Know (reference)

• E-Loyalty: How to Keep Customers Coming Back to Your Website (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Diorama by Norman Bel Geddes, depicting the explosion of depth charges from USS Hammann (DD-412) as she sank alongside USS Yorktown (CV-5) during the afternoon of 6 June 1942. Both ships were torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-168 while Hammann was assisting with the salvage of Yorktown. USS Vireo (AT-144) is shown at left, coming back to pick up survivors, as destroyers head off to search for the submarine. Credit: NAVY.

Reading in their railway car, while coming back from a visit to Scapa Flow in September 1943. Credit: NAVY.

It's the same man. Starting out -- and coming back / Herbert Johnson. Credit: Library of Congress.

It's our boy coming back to save the old home! Oh boy!. Credit: Library of Congress.

The Yellow Kid Gee dat must be my conscience coming back / / R.F. Outcault. Credit: Library of Congress.

Kautz's Cavalry coming back to camp in Gen Butlers lines after their raid. Credit: Library of Congress.

Rehabilitation client coming back from town with fertilizer, Guilford County, North Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress.

Resettlement Administration workers coming back to Rimrock Camp after work. Madras, Oregon. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Pa, coming back along the road, found her there, and he squatted near her.

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Health

Ear, sinus, and other infections may not improve with treatment as expected, but keep coming back or occurring with less common but severe infections, such as recurrent pneumonia. (references)

In the future, scientists may develop a vaccine that can prevent UTIs from coming back. Researchers in different studies have found that children and women who tend to get UTIs repeatedly are likely to lack proteins called immunoglobulins, which fight infection. (references)

This and related procedures, such as thalamic stimulation, are coming back into favor for patients who have severe tremor or have the disease only on one side of the body. Investigators have also revived interest in a surgical procedure called pallidotomy in which a portion of the brain called the globus pallidus is lesioned. (references)

Economic History

Nigeria

There are 3,500 kilometers (2,180 mi.) of railroad track, which fell into near total disuse but are now slowly coming back into service after extensive renovation by a Chinese company. (references)

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Expression using "coming back": it's all coming back to me. Additional references.

Czech

teï si na všechno vzpomínám (it's all coming back to me). (various references)

German

zurückkommend. (various references)

Greek 

γυρισμόσ (going, way back). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

来復 (return), 帰り (return). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かえり (return), らいふく (return). (various references)

Pig Latin

omingcay ackbay.(various references)

Turkish

geri gelme (rebound, return). (various references)

Xhosa

uzobuya. (various references)

reduces, reduci, reducis. (various references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: comaking.

-3 letters: backing, coaming, cocking, combing, mocking.

-4 letters: agonic, akimbo, anomic, bagnio, baking, boccia, bonaci, caking, camion, cocain, cognac, coking, coming, gabion, gnomic, macing, making, manioc.

-5 letters: acing, acmic, acock, amigo, amino, amnic, amnio, among, bacon, banco, bingo, bocci, bogan, boing, cabin, cobia, coign, comic, conga, conic, gamic, gamin, goban, gonia, imago, incog, kiang.