come in
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Definition
- Verb:
- To enter a place: To move from an outside area into an inside or enclosed space.
- To be received or become available: To arrive or be delivered, often referring to information, news, or items.
- To take a position in a competition or ranking: To finish a race or contest in a particular place.
- To become fashionable or seasonally appropriate: To start being in style or to begin being relevant for a particular time of year.
- To play a role or function: To have a part or purpose in a situation.
Usage Examples
- Verb:
- Please knock before you come in. (To enter a place.)
- The first reports from the disaster zone are starting to come in. (To be received.)
- My horse came in first in the last race! (To take a position in a competition.)
- Long skirts are expected to come in again this fall. (To become fashionable.)
- This is where your expertise comes in; we need your advice. (To play a role.)
Advanced Usage
- "to come in for criticism/praise": To receive criticism or praise.
- The government's policy has come in for severe criticism.
- "to come in handy/useful": To prove to be useful or convenient.
- Keep that tool; it might come in handy one day.
- "to come in from the cold": To gain acceptance or shelter after being excluded or in a difficult situation.
- After years of isolation, the nation finally came in from the cold.
Variants and Related Words
- Income (n): Money received, especially on a regular basis, for work or investments.
- Incoming (adj): Arriving or coming in.
- Incoming mail.
- Newcomer (n): A person who has recently arrived in a place or started an activity.
Synonyms
- Enter: To go or come into a place.
- Arrive: To reach a destination.
- Finish: To end a race or contest in a particular position.
Related Phrasal Verbs
- Come in on: To become involved in something, such as a plan or discussion.
- Would you like to come in on this project with us?
- Come into: To inherit something (e.g., money, property) or to begin to be in a particular state.
- She came into a large fortune.
- The new law will come into effect next month.
Related Idioms
- Come in out of the rain: To seek shelter; to act sensibly to avoid trouble or discomfort.
- He finally decided to come in out of the rain and accept the reasonable offer.
- Have it coming (to you): To deserve something bad that happens.
- After all his lies, he had his punishment coming.
Verb
- take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal
- Jerry came in third in the Marathon
- to insert between other elements
- She interjected clever remarks
- come into fashion; become fashionable
- be received
- News came in of the massacre in Rwanda
- to come or go into
- the boat entered an area of shallow marshes