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Come in   /kəm ɪn/   Listen
Come in

verb
1.
To come or go into.  Synonyms: enter, get in, get into, go in, go into, move into.
2.
Be received.  Synonym: come.
3.
Come into fashion; become fashionable.
4.
To insert between other elements.  Synonyms: inject, interject, interpose, put in, throw in.
5.
Take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal.  Synonyms: come out, place.



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"Come in" Quotes from Famous Books



... dislikes down pat," declared Doctor Hugh, rising and shaking hands. "Will you come in, Mrs. Hildreth? My mother will ...
— Rainbow Hill • Josephine Lawrence

... are especially attractive with their gay friezes of wonderful fairy-tale people, Mother Goose, Noah's Ark and happy little children playing among the flowers. Some of the designs come in sets of four panels that can be framed if desired. A Noah's Ark frieze with the animals marching two by two under the watchful eyes of the Noah family, with an ark and stiff little Noah's Ark trees, will give endless pleasure if placed about three feet from the floor ...
— Furnishing the Home of Good Taste • Lucy Abbot Throop

... and man of genius, was sitting in his newspaper office late one dreary winter night. The clerks had all left and he was preparing to go, when a quick rap came to the door. He said "Come in," and, looking towards the entrance, saw a little ragged child all wet with sleet. "Are ye Hugh Miller?" "Yes." "Mary Duff wants ye." "What does she want?" "She's deein." Some misty recollection of the name made him at once set out, and with his well-known plaid and stick, ...
— Spare Hours • John Brown

... popular forum on the one hand, he was meeting daily on the other assaults by a crowd of brilliant opponents in Congress. At the same time he was playing a consummate game of political strategy, struggling against immense odds to recover his hold on Illinois. The crisis would come in 1858 when he would have to go before the Legislature for reelection. He knew well enough who his opponent would be. At every turn there fell across his path the shadow of a cool sinister figure, his relentless ...
— Lincoln • Nathaniel Wright Stephenson

... settled in Iceland, and through whom the most complete exposition of the Odinic faith has come down to us in the Eddas and Sagas, were not definitely converted until the eleventh century,—although they had come in contact with Christians during their viking raids nearly six centuries before,—it is very probable that the Northern scalds gleaned some idea of the Christian doctrines, and that this knowledge influenced them to a certain extent, and coloured their descriptions of the end of the world ...
— Myths of the Norsemen - From the Eddas and Sagas • H. A. Guerber


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