Definition of "come to"

come to

/kʌm ˈtu/

verb
third-person singular simple present comes to, present participle coming to, simple past came to, past participle come to
1. (intransitive, idiomatic) To recover consciousness after fainting etc.
2. (intransitive, idiomatic, nautical) To stop a sailing vessel, especially by turning into the wind. See also come about.
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  The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come to and wait for the turn of the tide.
  1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], part I
3. (transitive) To total; to amount to.
4. (transitive) To reach; to arrive at.
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  Dotcom mania was slow in coming to higher education, but now it has the venerable industry firmly in its grip. Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations.
  2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
5. (transitive) To seek help from.
6. (transitive) To devote attention to in due course; to come around to.
7. (transitive) To befall; to happen to; to come upon.
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  My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.
  1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 3, in Mr. Pratt's Patients
8. (transitive, usually in present tense) To regard or specifically pertain to.
9. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come,‎ to.

Definition of "come to"

come to

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