What's the difference between come and comet?

Come


Definition:

  • (p. p.) of Come
  • (n.) To move hitherward; to draw near; to approach the speaker, or some place or person indicated; -- opposed to go.
  • (n.) To complete a movement toward a place; to arrive.
  • (n.) To approach or arrive, as if by a journey or from a distance.
  • (n.) To approach or arrive, as the result of a cause, or of the act of another.
  • (n.) To arrive in sight; to be manifest; to appear.
  • (n.) To get to be, as the result of change or progress; -- with a predicate; as, to come untied.
  • (v. t.) To carry through; to succeed in; as, you can't come any tricks here.
  • (n.) Coming.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We examined the karyotype in five individuals of roe-deer (Capreolus capreolus), coming from Southern Moravia.
  • (2) But when he speaks, the crowds who have come together to make a stand against government corruption and soaring fuel prices cheer wildly.
  • (3) Schneiderlin, valued at an improbable £27m, and the currently injured Jay Rodriguez are wanted by their former manager Mauricio Pochettino at Spurs, but the chairman Ralph Krueger has apparently called a halt to any more outgoings, saying: “They are part of the core that we have decided to keep at Southampton.” He added: “Jay Rodriguez and Morgan Schneiderlin are not for sale and they will be a part of our club as we enter the new season.” The new manager Ronald Koeman has begun rebuilding by bringing in Dusan Tadic and Graziano Pellè from the Dutch league and Krueger said: “We will have players coming in, we will make transfers to strengthen the squad.
  • (4) The dramas are part of the BBC2 controller Janice Hadlow's plans for her "unashamedly intelligent" channel over the coming months.
  • (5) It comes in defiant journalism, like the story televised last week of a gardener in Aleppo who was killed by bombs while tending his roses and his son, who helped him, orphaned.
  • (6) We’ve spoken to them on the phone and they’ve all said they just want to come home.” A total of 93 pupils from Saint-Joseph were on the trip.
  • (7) When you have been out for a month you need to prepare properly before you come back.” Pellegrini will make his own assessment of Kompany’s fitness before deciding whether to play him in the Bournemouth game, which he is careful to stress may not be the foregone conclusion the league table might suggest.
  • (8) Photograph: Guardian The research also compiled data covered by a wider definition of tax haven, including onshore jurisdictions such as the US state of Delaware – accused by the Cayman islands of playing "faster and looser" even than offshore jurisdictions – and the Republic of Ireland, which has come under sustained pressure from other EU states to reform its own low-tax, light-tough, regulatory environment.
  • (9) That's why the big dreams have come from the smaller candidates such as the radical left's Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
  • (10) We could do with similar action to cut out botnets and spam, but there aren't any big-money lobbyists coming to Mandelson pleading loss of business through those.
  • (11) Couples in need of help will be "encouraged" to come to a private agreement.
  • (12) But the Franco-British spat sparked by Dave's rejection of Angela and Nicolas's cunning plan to save the euro has been given wings by news the US credit agencies may soon strip France of its triple-A rating and is coming along very nicely, thank you. "
  • (13) It comes as the museum is transforming itself in the wake of major cuts in its government funding and looking more towards private-sector funding, a move that has caused some unease about its future direction.
  • (14) We knew it would be a strange match because they had to come out and play to win to finish third,” Benitez said afterwards.
  • (15) Sheez, I thought, is that what the revolutionary spirit of 1789 and 1968 has come to?
  • (16) The move comes as a poll found that 74% of people want doctors to be allowed to help terminally ill people end their lives.
  • (17) After friends heard that he was on them, Brumfield started observing something strange: “If we had people over to the Super Bowl or a holiday season party, I’d notice that my medicines would come up short, no matter how good friends they were.” Twice people broke into his house to get to the drugs.
  • (18) At the weekend the couple’s daughter, Holly Graham, 29, expressed frustration at the lack of information coming from the Foreign Office and the tour operator that her parents travelled with.
  • (19) In a poll before the debate, 48% predicted that Merkel, who will become Europe's longest serving leader if re-elected on 22 September, would emerge as the winner of the US-style debate, while 26% favoured Steinbruck, a former finance minister who is known for his quick-wit and rhetorical skills, but sometimes comes across as arrogant.
  • (20) Only an extensive knowledge of the various mechanisms and pharmacologic agents that can be used to prevent or treat these adverse reactions will allow the physician to approach the problem scientifically and come to a reasonable solution for the patient.

Comet


Definition:

  • (n.) A member of the solar system which usually moves in an elongated orbit, approaching very near to the sun in its perihelion, and receding to a very great distance from it at its aphelion. A comet commonly consists of three parts: the nucleus, the envelope, or coma, and the tail; but one or more of these parts is frequently wanting. See Illustration in Appendix.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Comet Hale-Bopp graced the night skies in 1997 and was easily visible to the naked eye for months.
  • (2) Walden said the comparison with Comet was “ridiculous”.
  • (3) Its investments have included the airline Monarch, which has returned to profit after nearly collapsing a year ago, Morrisons convenience stores , and the now defunct Comet electrical goods chain.
  • (4) The lawyers have passed on the details of a tribunal judgment, published this month, which states that Chris Farrington, one of three Deloitte administrators, signed a letter to the secretary of state, Vince Cable, in November 2012 stating that there were "no proposed redundancies at present" at Comet .
  • (5) Estimates of what we will be able to see will improve over the next few days as astronomers track the comet's progress.
  • (6) Comet, the electricals retailer that has collapsed into administration, is the latest high street casualty, emblematic of thousands of shuttered shops up and down the land.
  • (7) 1933 Comet Battery store is founded by George Hollingbery in Hull, Yorkshire, employing two people who charge batteries for customers' wireless sets.
  • (8) We have used video image analysis to define appropriate "features" of the comet as a measure of DNA damage, and have quantified damage and repair by ionizing radiation.
  • (9) The authors' contribution to the problem is the observation of special thrombocyte aggregates surrounding neutrophils resembling comet tails, as well as the fact that the authors observed the formation of aggregates surrounding also lymphocytes and eosinophil cells.
  • (10) The pathognomonic sign is the "comet tail" that results from the crowding of vessels and bronchi as they enter the atelectatic region.
  • (11) Diallo was able to get the plate number off the women’s car but when he gave it to police he said he was told: “It’s a civil matter, there’s nothing we can do.” DC police spokeswoman Margarita Mikhaylova said they had “not received reports of specific threats” from businesses neighboring Comet Ping Pong.
  • (12) Following the revelations, it has emerged that Tims, who was news editor of the Surrey Comet between 1980 and 1988, was interviewed by an officer working for Operation Fernbridge, the criminal investigation examining claims of sexual abuse and grooming of children by prominent men, including senior MPs, top police officers and people with links to the royal household.
  • (13) Certain phenomena such as "centrifugal effect" and "comet effect" are examples of new problems generated by the advent of TBM.
  • (14) 2011 Kesa shareholders vote for the sale of loss-making Comet to private investment firm OpCapita for just £2 .
  • (15) This followed a string of closures in 2012 including Comet, JJB Sports, Game, Peacocks and Blacks Leisure.
  • (16) Comet is to close a further 125 stores – with the loss of 2,500 jobs – over the next few weeks, and it may shut down its entire business before the end of the year unless a buyer can be found, the administrator, Deloitte , has warned.
  • (17) Previous probes have included Lunar Prospector, which studied the moon's geology; Stardust, which returned a sample of material scooped from a comet's tail; and Mars Pathfinder, which deployed a tiny motorised robot vehicle on the Red Planet in 1997.
  • (18) We have studied incision-break formation in unstimulated and stimulated populations of human T-lymphocytes using the comet (single-cell microgel electrophoresis) assay.
  • (19) I just wanted to do some good and went about it the wrong way,” Edgar Welch, 28, told a reporter from the New York Times , adding: “I regret how I handled the situation.” Welch was arrested on Sunday at the Comet Ping Pong pizzeria, which became the subject of lurid conspiracy theories after it was mentioned in the personal emails of John Podesta , Hillary Clinton’s campaign chief, published by WikiLeaks.
  • (20) DNA containing breaks extends in the direction of the anode forming an image resembling the tail of a comet.

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