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Princeton University - WordNet - a lexical database for the English language Category: General Date & country: 27/01/2008, USA Words: 85192

come on
verb occur or become available; `water or electricity came on again after the earthquake`

come on
turn up verb appear or become visible; make a showing; `She turned up at the funeral`; `I hope the list key is going to surface again`

come out
verb come off; `His hair and teeth fell out`

come out of the closet
verb to state openly and publicly one`s homosexuality; `This actor outed last year`

come round
come around verb change one`s position or opinion; `He came around to our point of view`

come to
verb return to consciousness; `The patient came to quickly`; `She revived after the doctor gave her an injection`

come to grips
get to grips verb deal with (a problem or a subject); `I still have not come to grips with the death of my parents`

come to life
verb be born or come into existence; `All these flowers come to life when the rains come`

come to light
come to hand verb be revealed or disclosed; `The truth finally came to light`

come to mind
spring to mind verb be remembered; `His name comes to mind when you mention the strike`

come to the fore
step forward verb make oneself visible; take action; `Young people should step to the fore and help their peers`

come up
bob up verb originate or come into being; `a question arose`

come up to
verb speak to someone

come-at-able
get-at-able adjective capable of being reached or attained; `a very getatable man`; `both oil and coal are there but not in getatable locations`

comeback
noun return by a celebrity to some previously successful activity

comedian
comic noun a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts

comedienne
noun a female comedian

comedown
noun decline to a lower status or level

comedy
noun light and humorous drama with a happy ending

comedy ballet
noun a ballet that stresses the drama with features of comedy

comeliness
fairness 2 loveliness noun the quality of being good looking and attractive

Comenius
John Amos Comenius noun Czech educational reformer (1592-1670)

comestible
edible noun any substance that can be used as food

comet
noun (astronomy) a relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit

comet-like
adjective resembling a comet

cometary
cometic adjective of or relating to or resembling a comet

comfit
noun candy containing a fruit or nut

comfort
noun a feeling of freedom from worry or disappointment

comfort
console verb give moral or emotional strength to

comfort food
noun food that is simply prepared and gives a sense of wellbeing; typically food with a high sugar or carbohydrate content that is associated with childhood or with home cooking

comfort woman
ianfu noun a woman forced into prostitution for Japanese servicemen during World War II; `she wrote a book about her harsh experiences as a comfort woman`

comfort zone
noun the temperature range (between 28 and 30 degrees Centigrade) at which the naked human body is able to maintain a heat balance without shivering or sweating

comfortable
comfy adjective providing or experiencing physical well-being or relief (`comfy` is informal); `comfortable clothes`; `comfortable suburban houses`; `made himself comfortable in an armchair`; `the antihistamine made her feel more comfortable`; `are you comfortable?`; `feeling comfy now?`

comfortableness
noun a feeling of being at ease in a relationship

comfortably
adverb in mental comfort; without stress; `he works comfortably on three continents`

comforted
adjective made comfortable or more comfortable in a time of distress; `the news make her feel comforted`

comforter
baby`s dummy noun device used for an infant to suck or bite on

comforting
cheering adjective providing freedom from worry

comfortingly
consolingly adverb in a comforting or consoling manner; `one part of a strange world should be given a comfortingly familiar form`

comfortless
adjective without comfort; `a comfortless room`

comforts
creature comforts noun things that make you comfortable and at ease; `all the comforts of home`

comfrey
healing herb noun leaves make a popular tisane; young leaves used in salads or cooked

comic
adjective of or relating to or characteristic of comedy; `comic hero`

comic book
noun a magazine devoted to comic strips

comic opera
opera bouffe noun opera with a happy ending and in which some of the text is spoken

comic strip
cartoon strip noun a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book

comicality
noun the quality of being comical

comically
adverb in a comical manner; `the tone was comically desperate`

coming attraction
noun a movie that is advertised to draw customers

coming back
noun the occurrence of a change in direction back in the opposite direction

coming upon
noun a casual meeting with a person of thing

coming(a)
adjective yet to come; `coming generations`; `a future-day Gibbon of Macaulay`

comity
noun a state or atmosphere of harmony or mutual civility and respect

comity of nations
noun courteous respect by one nation for the laws and institutions of another

comma
comma butterfly noun anglewing butterfly with a comma-shaped mark on the underside of each hind wing

comma bacillus
Vibrio comma noun comma-shaped bacteria that cause Asiatic cholera

command
control 1 mastery noun great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity; `a good command of French`

command
noun (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program

command guidance
noun a method of controlling the flight of a missile by commands originating from the ground or from another missile

command language
query language noun a source language consisting of procedural operators that invoke functions to be executed

command line
noun commands that a user types in order to run an application

command line interface
CLI noun a user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon

command module
noun a space module in which astronauts can live and control the spacecraft and communicate with earth

command post
general headquarters noun military headquarters from which a military commander controls and organizes the forces

command processing overhead time
command processing overhead noun (computer science) the processing time required by a device prior to the execution of a command

command prompt
noun (computer science) a symbol that appears on the computer screen to indicate that the computer is ready to receive a command

commandeer
hijack verb take arbitrarily or by force; `The Cubans commandeered the plane and flew it to Miami`

commander in chief
generalissimo noun the officer who holds the supreme command; `in the U.S. the president is the commander in chief`

commandership
commandery noun the position or office of commander

commanding
dominating adjective used of a height or viewpoint; `a commanding view of the ocean`; `looked up at the castle dominating the countryside`; `the balcony overlooking the ballroom`

commanding officer
commandant noun an officer in command of a military unit

commandment
noun something that is commanded

commando
noun an amphibious military unit trained for raids into enemy territory

commedia dell`arte
noun Italian comedy of the 16th to 18th centuries improvised from standardized situations and stock characters

commelina
noun any plant of the genus Commelina

Commelinaceae
family Commelinaceae noun large widely distributed family of chiefly perennial herbs or climbers: spiderworts

Commelinidae
subclass Commelinidae noun one of four subclasses or superorders of Monocotyledones; comprises about 19,000 species in 25 families of mostly terrestrial herbs especially of moist places including: Cyperaceae; Gramineae; Bromeliaceae; and Zingiberaceae

commemorate
verb call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony; `We remembered the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz`; `Remember the dead of the First World War`

commemorate
memorialise verb be or provide a memorial to a person or an event; `This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps`; `We memorialized the Dead`

commemoration
memorialization noun a ceremony to honor the memory of someone or something

commemorative
commemorating adjective intended as a commemoration; `a commemorative plaque`

commencement
commencement ceremony noun an academic exercise in which diplomas are conferred

commencement day
degree day noun the day on which university degrees are conferred

commencement exercise
commencement ceremony noun an academic exercise in which diplomas are conferred

commend
verb express approval of

commend
verb mention as by way of greeting or to indicate friendship; `Remember me to your wife`

commensal
adjective living in a state of commensalism

commensalism
noun the relation between two different kinds of organisms when one receives benefits from the other without damaging it

commensally
adverb in a commensal manner

commensurable
adjective able to be measured by a common standard; `hours and minutes are commensurable`

commensurate
adjective corresponding in size or degree or extent; `pay should be commensurate with the time worked`

commensurateness
correspondence 1 proportionateness noun the relation of corresponding in degree or size or amount

comment
notice verb make or write a comment on; `he commented the paper of his colleague`

comment
noun a written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material; `he wrote an extended comment on the proposal`

commentary
noun a written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material; `he wrote an extended comment on the proposal`

commentate
verb serve as a commentator, as in sportscasting

commentator
reviewer noun a writer who reports and analyzes events of the day

commerce
commercialism noun transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services)

commercial
adjective of the kind or quality used in commerce; average or inferior; `commercial grade of beef`; `commercial oxalic acid`

commercial art
noun art used for commercial purposes (as in advertising)