(n.) One who comes, or who has come; one who has arrived, and is present.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is the scrubber that Comer paid for, Lackner conceived and Wright built.
(2) His greatest passion on the trek up, apart from finding a 3G signal and playing rap music from a speaker on the back of his pack, was playing Tigers and Goats, a local version of chess, taking on all-comers – climbers, Sherpas, trekkers, random elderly porters passing through the lodges.
(3) Reservations are necessary during high season: they welcome everyone, but late comers can end up sleeping on the floor.
(4) Aortic intimal rhythmic structures were significantly more frequently detected in the aborigines than in those born in the North and new comers.
(5) Late comers were more likely to report a number of delaying factors or to have financial worries.
(6) When another corner, at the other end, was curled in by Mónica Ocampo it eluded all-comers before grazing the bar.
(7) Broecker then introduced the pair to his great friend, the late mail-order clothing tycoon Gary Comer.
(8) Thursday’s game between USA and Germany, for example, will be a clash of a legitimate soccer dynasty versus a legitimate up-and-comer.
(9) Even though it spent millions designing Android, Google made the software available to all comers at no charge.
(10) In the office, wedged between the two main studios, I sit down with three of Oguns' up and comers.
(11) In those untreated "new-comers" therapeutical effect comes earlier than in cases of premedication.
(12) So did Attlee.” Blunkett did the rounds: the combative former education and employment secretary, the take-on-all-comers home secretary, says he has done his time.
(13) We can talk about the fact that a ban in the US or UK wouldn’t stop the “bad guys” from getting perfect crypto from one of the nations that would be able to profit (while US and UK business suffered) by selling these useful tools to all comers.
(14) Retrospective and prospective studies of a total sample of 232 attenders at groups of Gamblers Anonymous suggest that total abstinence from gambling was maintained by 8% of all comers at one year from first attendance and by 7% at two years.
(15) The contest, which is open to all comers, takes place in one of the flooded quarries every September.
(16) Don’t take all the huff and puff of the new comer in the US seriously,” Khamenei said, according to the transcript of his speech on his official website.
(17) Leicester did save some face with their second-half performance, featuring a splendid goal from the substitute Demarai Gray, but they barely looked recognisable from the side that were taking on all-comers not so long ago and it was a jarring reflection of their deterioration that Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez, the two players who shared last season’s individual awards, were substituted at half-time.
(18) As Amartya Sen points out in his book The Argumentative Indian, there is a long, deep tradition in the country's discourse, of encouraging argument from all comers.
(19) Among the gladiators is charismatic up'n'comer Grado, star of a recent Vice documentary about the UK wrestling scene.
(20) Oddly, the deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg , so effective every week in taking on all comers in his LBC phone-in programme Call Clegg, took two questions from supporters and only one from the irritated lobby correspondents .
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.