When a person or thing comes to a particular place, especially to a place where you are, they move there.

When someone comes to do something, they move to the place where someone else is in order to do it, and they do it. In British English, someone can also come and do something and in American English, someone can come do something. However, you always say that someone came and did something.

When you come to a place, you reach it.

If something comes up to a particular point or down to it, it is tall enough, deep enough, or long enough to reach that point.

If something comes apart or comes to pieces, it breaks into pieces. If something comes off or comes away, it becomes detached from something else.

You use come in expressions such as come to an end or come into operation to indicate that someone or something enters or reaches a particular state or situation.

If someone comes to do something, they do it at the end of a long process or period of time.

You can ask how something came to happen when you want to know what caused it to happen or made it possible.

When a particular event or time comes, it arrives or happens.

You can use come before a date, time, or event to mean when that date, time, or event arrives. For example, you can say come the spring to mean 'when the spring arrives'.

If a thought, idea, or memory comes to you, you suddenly think of it or remember it.

If money or property is going to come to you, you are going to inherit or receive it.

If a case comes before a court or tribunal or comes to court, it is presented there so that the court or tribunal can examine it.

If something comes to a particular number or amount, it adds up to it.

If someone or something comes from a particular place or thing, that place or thing is their origin, source, or starting point.

Something that comes from something else or comes of it is the result of it.

If someone comes of a particular family or type of family, they are descended from them.

If someone or something comes first, next, or last, they are first, next, or last in a series, list, or competition.

If a type of thing comes in a particular range of colours, forms, styles, or sizes, it can have any of those colours, forms, styles, or sizes.

You use come in expressions such as it came as a surprise when indicating a person's reaction to something that happens.

The next subject in a discussion that you come to is the one that you talk about next.

People say 'Come' to encourage or comfort someone.

To come means to have an orgasm.

Some people say 'Come again?' when they want you to repeat what you have just said.

If you say that someone is, for example, as good as they come, or as stupid as they come, you are emphasizing that they are extremely good or extremely stupid.

People say 'Come, come' to indicate that they disapprove of or disagree with what someone has just said or done.

You can use the expression when it comes down to it or when you come down to it for emphasis, when you are giving a general statement or conclusion.

If you say that someone has it coming to them, you mean that they deserve everything bad that is going to happen to them, because they have done something wrong or are a bad person. If you say that someone got what was coming to them, you mean that they deserved the punishment or bad experience that they have had.

You use the expression come to think of it to indicate that you have suddenly realized something, often something obvious.

When you refer to a time or an event to come or one that is still to come, you are referring to a future time or event.

You can use the expression when it comes to or when it comes down to in order to introduce a new topic or a new aspect of a topic that you are talking about.

You can use expressions like I know where you're coming from or you can see where she's coming from to say that you understand someone's attitude or point of view.