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2 VERB When someone comes to do something, they move to the place where someone else is in order to do it, and they do it. In British English, someone can also come and do something and in American English, someone can come do something. However, you always say that someone came and did something. □ [V to-inf] Eleanor had come to visit her. □ [V and v] Come and meet Roger. □ [V inf] I want you to come visit me.

3 VERB When you come to a place, you reach it. □ [V + to ] He came to a door that led into a passageway.

4 VERB If something comes up to a particular point or down to it, it is tall enough, deep enough, or long enough to reach that point. □ [V up prep] The water came up to my chest. □ [V down prep] I wore a large shirt of Jamie's which came down over my hips.

5 VERB If something comes apart or comes to pieces , it breaks into pieces. If something comes off or comes away , it becomes detached from something else. □ [V adv/prep] The pistol came to pieces, easily and quickly. □ [V adv/prep] The door knobs came off in our hands.

6 V‑LINK You use come in expressions such as come to an end or come into operation to indicate that someone or something enters or reaches a particular state or situation. □ [V + to ] The Communists came to power in 1944. □ [V + into ] I came into contact with very bright Harvard and Yale students. □ [V adj] Their worst fears may be coming true.

7 VERB If someone comes to do something, they do it at the end of a long process or period of time. □ [V to-inf] She said it so many times that she came to believe it.

8 VERB You can ask how something came to happen when you want to know what caused it to happen or made it possible. □ [V to-inf] How did you come to meet him?

9 VERB When a particular event or time comes , it arrives or happens. □ [V prep/adv] The announcement came after a meeting at the Home Office. □ [V ] The time has come for us to move on. □ [V ] There will come a time when the crisis will occur. ●  com|ing N‑SING □ [+ of ] Most of my patients welcome the coming of summer.

10 PREP You can use come before a date, time, or event to mean when that date, time, or event arrives. For example, you can say come the spring to mean 'when the spring arrives'. □  Come the election on the 20th of May, we will have to decide.

11 VERB If a thought, idea, or memory comes to you, you suddenly think of it or remember it. □ [V + to ] He was about to shut the door when an idea came to him. □ [V to n that] Then it came to me that perhaps he did understand.

12 VERB If money or property is going to come to you, you are going to inherit or receive it. □ [V + to ] He did have pension money coming to him when the factory shut down.

13 VERB If a case comes before a court or tribunal or comes to court, it is presented there so that the court or tribunal can examine it. □ [V + before ] They were ready to explain their case when it came before the planning committee. □ [V + to ] President Cristiani expected the case to come to court within ninety days.

14 VERB If something comes to a particular number or amount, it adds up to it. □ [V + to ] Lunch came to $80.

15 VERB If someone or something comes from a particular place or thing, that place or thing is their origin, source, or starting point. □ [V + from ] Nearly half the students come from abroad. □ [V + from ] Chocolate comes from the cacao tree. □ [V + from ] The term 'claret', used to describe Bordeaux wines, may come from the French word 'clairet'.