TO COME

Definition: TO COME

TO COME

1. Yet to arrive, future. ``In times to come.'' --Dryden. ``There's pippins and cheese to come.'' --Shak.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Multilingual Slang

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

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.

Destiny

Noun: destiny; (necessity); future existence, post existence; hereafter; future state, next world, world to come, after life; futurity; everlasting life, everlasting death; life beyond the grave, world beyond the grave; prospect; (expectation).

Adjective: impending; Verb: destined; about to be, happen; coming, in store, to come, going to happen, instant, at hand, near; near, close at hand; over hanging, hanging over one's head, imminent; brewing, preparing, forthcoming; int he wind, on the cards, in reserve; that will, is to be; in prospect; (expected); looming in the distance, horizon, future; unborn, in embryo; int he womb of time, futurity; pregnant; (producing).

Futurity

Noun: futurity, futurition; future, hereafter, time to come; approaching time, coming time, subsequent time, after time, approaching age, coming age, subsequent age, after age, approaching days, coming days, subsequent days, after days, approaching hours, coming hours, subsequent hours, after hours, approaching ages, coming ages, subsequent ages, after ages, approaching life, coming life, subsequent life, after life, approaching years, coming years, subsequent years, after years; morrow; millennium, doomsday, day of judgment, crack of doom, remote future.

Adjective: future, to come; coming; (impending); next, near; close at hand; eventual, ulterior; in prospect; (expectation).

Life

Vivification; vital force; vitalization; revivification; Prometheus; life to come. (destiny).

Crosswords: TO COME

If I can guess your name in three tries, you have to come have a drink with me tonight. (Being John Malkovich; writing credit: Charlie Kaufman)

I just wanted to come here. (Mulholland Dr.; writing credit: David Lynch)

Sometimes it would stop raining long enough for the stars to come outand then it was nice. (Forrest Gump; writing credit: Eric Roth)

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)

Mama told me not to come (Mama Told Me (Not to Come); performing artist: Three Dog Night)

She told me to come but I was already there (YOU SHOOK ME ALL NIGHT LONG; performing artist: AC/DC)

Want to come visit me in california (Unsent; performing artist: Alanis Morissette)

She needed to come back down to Earth (Sk8er Boi; performing artist: Avril Lavigne)

They hear a choir sing a song, the music seemed to come from afar. (Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord; performing artist: Boney M)

We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him. (references; author: Mark Twain)

If the people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em. (references; author: Yogi Berra)

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)

If builders built buildings the way programmers write programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization. (references; author: unknown)

Days to Come (1966)

Things to Come (1936)

I'm Afraid to Come Home in the Dark (1930)

Town That Tried to Come Back (1916)

The Fable of the Honeymoon That Tried to Come Back (1914)

Mama Told Me (Not To Come) (performing artist: Three Dog Night)

I Want To Come Over (performing artist: Melissa Etheridge)

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

Books

• The New Amplified Pilgrim's Progress: From This World to That Which Is to Come (reference)

• Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Come Forward As Science (Hpc Classics Series) (reference)

• Extravagant Worship: Holy, Holy, Holy Is the Lord God Almighty Who Was and Is, and Is to Come (reference)

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

• To Our Children's Children: Preserving Family Histories for Generations to Come (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• H.G. Wells - Things to Come (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• End of All Things to Come (Bonus Dvd) [LIMITED EDITION] [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

Egyptian tomb painting from 1450 B.C. showing officer with sounding pole Officer is telling crew to come ahead slow Engineers with cat-o'-nine-tails assuring proper response from engines. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Point Udall Millennium Monument. A sundial was erected here, the easternmost point of United States Territory to commemorate the coming of the new millennium . The marker represents "a continuum between all who have come before and all who are yet to come.". Credit: America's Coastlines.

Sunrise at the Point Udall Millennium Monument. Here the new day begins for the United States in the Western Hemisphere. The marker represents "a continuum between all who have come before and all who are yet to come.". Credit: America's Coastlines.

STAND TALL in the years to come. : Fight osteoporosis, the bone-thinning disease that occurs with age. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Members of the carrier's V-2 Division rigging arresting gear on the flight deck, circa 1962. The caption released with this photo on 24 July 1962 reads: "Speeding toward a record-breaker, V-2 divisionmen aboard the USS Lake Champlain show what it takes to come out on top in barrier rigging. The 'Champ' crew recently broke the Atlantic Fleet record for setting the Davis (S2F) barrier with a time of 59 seconds flat. Having gained momentum, they went on to rig the conventional (AD) barrier in a pace-setting 53 seconds. When the men slowed down enough to look in the record books, they quickly found out that the record they had broken was their own, set in July of '61.". Credit: NAVY.

To soothe Ellis I called Frank to come down from his perch. Credit: Library of Congress.

William H. Taft gesturing to Woodrow Wilson to come look over a fence at a raging Mexican bandit. Credit: Library of Congress.

Who stole the tarts?] "There's more evidence to come yet ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Child of farmer sitting in automobile waiting for father to come out of general store, Jarreau, Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress.

Picketing. Copper miners on strike waiting for scabs to come out of mines. Ducktown, Tennessee. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

This constrained them to come unto laws, wherein all men might see their duty beforehand, and know the penalties of transgressing them. (Second Treatise of Government)

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.

Then she beckoned Sylvie to come and take his hand, and signed to the children to go back to where the Earl was seated.

If her heart chance to come uppermost, they vanish.

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

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.

My lord, he doth deny to come.

The camp had begun to come to life.

And last the boys and girls would venture to come and play at hide and seek in my hair.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

One hypothesis suggests that the apoE4 protein allows this structure to come undone in some way, leading to the neurofibrillary tangles. (references)

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)

Although they are necessary in their own right, genes basically wait inside the cell's nucleus (control center) for other molecules to come along and read their messages. (references)

Business

To be more competitive, U.S. firms need more ODA to come into Vietnam. (references)

There is a lot of room for growth, but for now U.S. companies will need to come up with ways to bring down prices. (references)

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

Children

Thailand

Many are thought to come from neighboring countries, including Cambodia and Burma. (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

India

There is going be a huge demand for bandwith in years to come. (references)

Laos

This agreement requires congressional action to come into force. (references)

Argentina

Approximately half of the funding was to come from the private sector. (references)

Human Rights

United Kingdom

Witnesses have been reluctant to come forward. (references)

Romania

Often victims are reluctant to come forward, and the Government does not promote transparency in this regard. (references)

Solomon Islands

However, its work was hampered by the reluctance of witnesses to come forward and by ongoing threats of violence. (references)

Indigenous People

Indonesia

Most civil servants in local governments in Papua and other isolated areas continue to come primarily from other parts of the country, rather than from the local indigenous population. (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)

Political Economy

Germany

Accordingly, a high priority continues to be placed on financing eastern development, implying the likelihood of a flow of major project opportunities for years to come. (references)

Ireland

Ireland's unique social "Partnership Programs" provide a forum for business, government, labor, and the farming sector, as well as other "social partners," to come together for discussions and an exchange of views. (references)

SWEDEN

During 1995 and 1996, Sweden pulled out of its worst and longest recession since the 1930s (GDP declined by six percent from 1991 to 1993). Unemployment started to come down in 1998, from average figures as high as 12 to 14 percent in the mid-1990s, now down to around 7.3 percent. (references)

Trade

Indonesia

Letters of credit remain difficult to come by and can face difficulties in gaining acceptance abroad. (references)

Mexico

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

Switzerland

This trend, which is still in its beginning phase, is expected to take on significant dimensions in the years to come. (references)

Travel

Argentina

Ask your business contacts when it is best to come, and plan travel times and clothing accordingly. (references)

Bahrain

Nearly everyone with whom a business traveler is likely to come into contact speaks at least some English, and Bahraini government officials and businessmen are usually fluent in the language. (references)

Greece

Business appointments are impossible to obtain during this period, and even basic business information is difficult if not impossible to come by. No commitments or consideration of business proposals should be expected during this time. (references)

Women

Mexico

Many female victims were reluctant to come forward, and cases were difficult to prove. (references)

Hong Kong

To address the immediate problem of allocating school places in the fall, the Education Department established an interim appeal mechanism to review individual cases of alleged discrimination and agreed to come up with a new system by the end of the year. (references)

Guatemala

Many observers believed that increases did not reflect an increase in the number of rapes committed, but rather an increased willingness on the part of victims to come forward, greater public confidence in the police, and improved record keeping of crime statistics. (references)

Worker Rights

Sweden

The women typically are recruited in their own countries to come and work as cleaners, babysitters, or similar employment. (references)

Uzbekistan

Many victims are unwilling to come forward due to both societal pressure and the fear of retaliation from their traffickers. (references)

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": be still to come ♦ call to come out ♦ for a year to come ♦ i shall be pleased to come ♦ in days to come ♦ in times to come ♦ it's turn to come ♦ life to come ♦ not to come up to one's expectation ♦ nothing loath to come ♦ tell not to come ♦ things to come ♦ time to come ♦ To come about ♦ To come abroad ♦ to come across ♦ To come after ♦ To come again ♦ To come and go ♦ To come at ♦ To come away ♦ To come between ♦ To come by ♦ To come down ♦ To come down upon ♦ To come home ♦ To come honestly by ♦ To come in ♦ To come in at the hawse holes ♦ To come in for ♦ To come into ♦ To come into play ♦ To come it ♦ To come it over ♦ to come near ♦ To come near to ♦ to come nigh ♦ To come of ♦ To come off ♦ To come off by ♦ To come off from ♦ To come off with flying colors ♦ To come on ♦ To come one's way ♦ To come or draw to a head ♦ To come out ♦ To come out with ♦ to come over ♦ To come over to ♦ To come round ♦ To come short ♦ 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 ♦ to come together ♦ To come true ♦ To come under ♦ To come up ♦ To come up the capstan ♦ To come up the tackle fall ♦ To come up to ♦ To come up with ♦ To come upon ♦ wait for smb. to come. Additional references.

Arabic 

قَدِمَ (to reach), جا (to arrive), أَتَى (bring). (various references)

Aymara

jutaña. (various references)

Chinese 

來到 (to arrive), 來 , � . (various references)

Czech

pøijít. (various references)

Danish

tandes (to come on, to light up), specifik anflyvningstid (actual approaching time, actual time to leave the field and to come back), rive sig loes (to come home), laegge an til landing (to berth a vessel(alongside quay), to come alongside), faktisk anflyvningstid (actual approaching time, actual time to leave the field and to come back), begynde at lyse (to come on, to light up). (various references)

Dutch

trekken (attract, bend, design, drag, draw, haul, limp, make a draft, make a stroke, migrate, pull, roam, tow, tug, wander, wander about), werkelijke naderingstijd (actual approaching time, actual time to leave the field and to come back), van boorgereedschap (to come out, to go in, to lower, to pull out, to run in), uitrijden (leaving a traffic stream, to come out, to pull out), slippen (skid, slip), schrapping (case designed to come up for judgment shortly, suspension, suspension of staff), oplichten (clear), ophalen (inhale, lever, lift, meet, pick up, raise, take up), langzijde komen (to berth a vessel(alongside quay), to come alongside), in de plaats van zijn rechtsvoorganger treden (to come into the place of his legal predecessor), in aanslag komen (to come into abutment, to stop on), een schikking treffen met zijn schuldeisers (to come to terms with one's creditors, to compound with one's creditors), doorhaling (case designed to come up for judgment shortly), doorgaan (continue, cover, go on, go through, pass on, pass through, proceed with). (various references)

Finnish

tulla edellisen oikeudenomistajan tilalle (to come into the place of his legal predecessor), tulisitteko (could you come to, would you like to come to), tulevat sukupolvet (generations to come), tuleva elämä (the life to come), teit oikein kun tulit (you did right to come), on luultavaa, että hän tulee (he is likely to come), en ehdi tulla (I can't manage to come), hän tulee varmasti (he is sure to come), hänen piti tulla jo eilen (he was to come yesterday), hieroa kauppaa (bargain, try to come to terms), jälkeentulevat sukupolvet (generations to come), asian poistaminen juttulistalta käsittelyn alkamisen vuoksi (case designed to come up for judgment shortly), minut käskettiin sisälle (I was told to come in), valitettavasti en voi tulla (I regret being unable to come), päästä sopimukseen velkojiensa kanssa (to come to terms with one's creditors, to compound with one's creditors), kutsuin hänet luokseni (I asked him to come and see me, I invited him to my house). (various references)

French

venir. (various references)

German

kommen (arise, arrive, be on, belong, come, come along, come on, come out, come over, coming, comme, get, go, happen, move in, occur, oncoming, reach, start, to acquire, to come (came, to cum). (various references)

Greek 

έπονται κι΄άλλα (there's more to come), σύρομαι (be dragged, crawl, creep, drag, trail), να τερματίσει (to come into abutment, to stop on), μελλούμενα (things to come), πραγματικός χρόνος προσέγγισης (actual approaching time, actual time to leave the field and to come back), πλευρίζω (accost, alongside come, dock), εξαγωγή (eduction, elicitation, export, exportation, extraction), εξαναγκάστηκε να βγεί πάνω (he was forced to come up), ανεβαίνω (ascend, climb, climb up, come in, come up, get on, go up, mount, rise), ανάβει (to come on, to light up), τροφοδοτείται (to come on, to light up), διπλαρώνω (accost, duplicate, overlap, waylay). (various references)

Hungarian

történik (befall, came, come, come about, happen, it's all fair and square, occur, take place, to betide, to come to pass, to hap, to supervene, to take place, to transpire), válik vmilyenné (came, come, got, to get), származik (accrue, arisen, arose, came, come, derive, originate, to arise, to descend from sy, to issue, to spawn), megérkezik (arrive, came, check in, come, come in, roll up, to arrive, to come to hand, to rive, to roll up), lesz (become, came, come, come about, get, grow, happen, made, to liberalize, to make, to rise from the ranks, will be), jön (came, come, to come on, to come to, to find one's legs, to inflame, to run high), eljön (came, come, come away, he'll come I'll be bound, to come along, to come away). (various references)

Inuktitut

qaivuq. (various references)

Italian

venire (arrive, be, be due, be owed, become, come, come out, come to, cost, derive, descend from, get, have got, occur, send, step, venire). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

来る (to approach, to arrive, to be caused by, to be due, to be due to, to be forthcoming, to be next, to become, to call on, to come from, to come on, to come to hand, to derive from, to get, to grow, to set in). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きたる (to arrive, to be due to, to be forthcoming, to be next), くる (hunchback, rickets, to approach, to arrive, to be caused by, to be due, to become, to bore, to call on, to come from, to come on, to come to hand, to derive from, to excavate, to get, to gouge, to grow, to hollow out, to reel, to scoop out, to set in, to wind), まいらせる (to beat, to bringto his knees, to floor), まいる (to be annoyed, to be defeated, to be madly in love, to be nonplussed, to call, to collapse, to die, to go, to visit), いたる (to arrive, to attain), いらっしゃる (to be, to go), いく (to orgasm), らっしゃる (to be, to go). (various references)

Luganda

okujja. (various references)

Manx

dy heet. (various references)

Norwegian

komme (arrival, come). (various references)

Pidgin English

com (came). (various references)

Pig Latin

otay omecay

Portuguese

transigir com os seus credores (to come to terms with one's creditors, to compound with one's creditors), tornar (render, return, to come back), tempo efectivo de aproximação (actual approaching time, actual time to leave the field and to come back), tabela dos processos prontos para julgamento (case designed to come up for judgment shortly), subingressar na titularidade das relações jurídicas do seu predecessor (to come into the place of his legal predecessor), sair (back off, depart, draw out, exit, flit, get off, get out, go out, issue, leave, move away, move out, pull out, take off, to come out, to get out, to go out, tumble), ligar (band, bind, binding, bond, call, catenate, colligate, connect, connect up, couple, gear, incorporate, indenture, inosculate, interlink, interlock, interweave, join, joint, knit, ligature, link, mingle, plug, plug in, set, splice, switch, switch on, tie, tie up, turn on, unite, wed, yoke), chocar contra (to come into abutment, to stop on). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

tornar (to come back). (various references)

Romanian

voi veni cu plãcere (I shall be pleased to come), vino neapãrat (be sure and come, don't fail to come, you must needs come), strãduieşte-te sã vii (do try and come, do try to come), nu justifica speranţele (fall short of one's expectation, not to come up to one's expectation), gata sã vinã (nothing loath to come), anul viitor (for a year to come, next year, the coming year), în viitor (in days to come, in the sequel). (various references)

Romany

av� v. (various references)

Russian 

в ближайшие годы (in the years ahead, in years to come). (various references)

Shona

-uya. (various references)

Sicilian

veniri. (various references)

Spanish

tiempo efectivo del vuelo de aproximación (actual approaching time, actual time to leave the field and to come back), chocar contra (bump, foul, knock, knock against, knock into, prang, ram), atracar (berth, come alongside, dock, hold up, land, moor, Rob, tie up). (various references)

Swazi

kú-ta. (various references)

Swedish

träffa uppgörelse med sina fordringsägare (to come to terms with one's creditors, to compound with one's creditors), träda i sin fångesmans ställe (to come into the place of his legal predecessor), mål uppsatt för avgörande (case designed to come up for judgment shortly). (various references)

Turkish

sırası gelmek (be at the bat, be time for, it's turn to come), gelecekte (hereafter, hereinafter, in future, in the future, in times to come, some day, some time), birinin gelmesini beklemek (wait for smb. to come). (various references)

du. (various references)

advenio, advenire, venire. (various references)

aêiti, avâiti, ayãn, jam, jas, jimat, sadayeiti, vîs-1. (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

-1 letter: comet, comte.

-2 letters: come, coot, cote, moot, mote, tome, toom.

-3 letters: coo, cot, met, moc, moo, mot, oot, toe, tom, too.

-4 letters: em, et, me, mo, oe, om, to.

+1 letter: compote, outcome.

+2 letters: comatose, compotes, homeotic, locomote, monocyte, outcomes.

+3 letters: coelomata, coelomate, comforted, comforter, commonest, component, comported, composite, composted, contemnor, economist, ectomorph, lobectomy, locomoted, locomotes, microtome, microtone, monocytes, motorcade.

+4 letters: acoelomate, amoebocyte, bolometric, centrosome, coelomates, colotomies, comforters, competitor, completion, complotted, components, composited, composites, contemnors, copromoter, coulometer, coulometry, cyclostome, cytochrome, dictyosome, economists, ecotourism, ectomorphs, homoerotic, locomotive, metronomic, microtomes, microtones, monostelic, motorcaded, motorcades, motorcycle, mycetozoan, mythopoeic, nomothetic, optometric, osmometric, outcompete, overcommit, schoolmate, schooltime, sociometry, teleonomic.