COME IN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does come in mean? 

• COME IN (verb)
  The verb COME IN has 5 senses:

1. to come or go into

2. be received

3. come into fashion; become fashionable

4. to insert between other elements

5. take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal

  Familiarity information: COME IN used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COME IN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To come or go into

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

come in; enter; get in; get into; go in; go into; move into

Context example:

the boat entered an area of shallow marshes

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "come in"):

take the field (go on the playing field, of a football team)

penetrate; perforate (pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance)

re-enter (enter again)

file in (enter by marching in a file)

pop in (enter briefly)

walk in (enter by walking)

call at; out in (enter a harbor)

take water (enter the water)

turn in (make an entrance by turning from a road)

board; get on (get on board of (trains, buses, ships, aircraft, etc.))

intrude; irrupt (enter uninvited)

encroach upon; intrude on; invade; obtrude upon (to intrude upon, infringe, encroach on, violate)

dock (come into dock)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Be received

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

come; come in

Context example:

News came in of the massacre in Rwanda

Hypernyms (to "come in" is one way to...):

arrive; come; get (reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 3

Meaning:

Come into fashion; become fashionable

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "come in" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Domain category:

fashion (the latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behavior)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Antonym:

go out (go out of fashion; become unfashionable)

Sense 4

Meaning:

To insert between other elements

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

come in; inject; interject; interpose; put in; throw in

Context example:

She interjected clever remarks

Hypernyms (to "come in" is one way to...):

break up; cut off; disrupt; interrupt (make a break in)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Sense 5

Meaning:

Take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

come in; come out; place

Context example:

Jerry came in third in the Marathon

Hypernyms (to "come in" is one way to...):

rank (take or have a position relative to others)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s Adjective/Noun
Somebody ----s Adjective

 Context examples 

But who should come in but the wolf!

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

A bundle of extra "fancy starch" had come in.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“There is a post come in from India, I observe,” he said, after a short silence.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The study said the overwhelming majority of pollution-related deaths come in developing countries where the authors say leaders are more concerned about building their economies and infrastructure than environmental regulations.

(Pollution is the World’s No. 1 Killer, VOA)

His was the gait of the wolf, smooth, tireless and effortless, and at the end of fifty miles he would come in jauntily ahead of the horse.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Come in, and make one of us.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

But first, they must become activated, which occurs when they come in contact with the protein that they are pre-programmed to recognize.

(In uveitis, bacteria in gut may instruct immune cells to attack the eye, NIH)

I hope, gentlemen, that you will come in and have some refreshment.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Most bidis are made in India, and they come in different flavors.

(Bidi, NCI Dictionary)

As stars rotate, their starspots come in and out of Kepler's view, offering a way to determine spin rate.

(Kepler Watches Stellar Dancers in the Pleiades Cluster, NASA)