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Come on

verb

Appear or become visible; make a showing. Synonyms: come out, show up, surface, turn up. "I hope the list key is going to surface again"

Move towards. Synonyms: approach, come near, draw close, draw near, go up, near. "They are drawing near" , "The enemy army came nearer and nearer"

Develop in a positive way. Synonyms: advance, come along, get along, get on, progress, shape up. "My plants are coming along" , "Plans are shaping up"

Start running, functioning, or operating. Synonyms: come up, go on. "The computer came up"

Occur or become available.

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"Come on" Quotes from Famous Books

... 'Come on then,' cried the sailors, 'or we'll take you too on board, and run you up and down the main-mast a few times. Nothing like life aboard ship ...

— Sylvia's Lovers -- Complete • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

... a very dry season followed. The other summers, occurring between 1807 and 1819, seem to show, "that in a majority of our summers, a showery period which, with some latitude as to time and local circumstances, may be admitted to constitute daily rain for forty days, does come on about the time indicated by the tradition ...

— The Rain Cloud - or, An Account of the Nature, Properties, Dangers and Uses of Rain • Anonymous

... is just what I needed to shame me into common sense. What a company of idiots we are! Marion, what would you think of a day-scholar who would stand shivering outside your doors for this length of time? Now come on, all of you;" and ...

— The Chautauqua Girls At Home • Pansy, AKA Isabella M. Alden

... the village it was night and very dark. A storm had come on and as the rain was coming down in torrents he went straight to the Fairy's house, resolved ...

— Pinocchio - The Tale of a Puppet • C. Collodi

... A shout from Pierre first aroused them from this trance, and recalled them to a sense of the real state of things. He was standing on a knoll, already separated from the party by some fifty yards, white with snow, and gesticulating violently for the travellers to come on. ...

— The Headsman - The Abbaye des Vignerons • James Fenimore Cooper

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