come on

Từ điển tiếng Anh - Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary

▪ I. come on phrasal verb [ came on comes on coming on ]
 
START

1. <I > to start to happen or work
• The heating comes on at six in the morning.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Starting and beginning ↑Starting again
2. If you have got an illness coming on, it is starting gradually
• I think I've got a cold coming on.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Starting and beginning ↑Starting again
3. UK informal If a woman comes on, her period (= the blood coming from the womb that happens every month) starts.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Processes and stages connected with sexual reproduction
 
• What time does the heating come on?
• I've set the oven to come on at ten.
• All the lights came on.
• The streetlights come on automatically at dusk.
 
HURRY
4. <I > said to encourage someone to do something, especially to hurry or try harder, or to tell you something
• Come on - we're going to be late if you don't hurry!
• Come on, Annabelle, you can tell me. I won't tell anyone.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Expressions telling people to hurry up
 
SEXUAL INTEREST
5. informal to make your sexual interest known to someone
• Then his wife left the room and he started coming on to me.
• She was coming on strong and I, naturally, responded.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Sexual attraction ↑Attractive
 
APPEAR
6. to be seen on stage in a play, or in a scene in a film or television programme, or to be heard in a radio programme
• There was great applause when the Russian ballerina came on.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Acting, rehearsing and performing
 
NOT BELIEVE
7. informal used to tell someone that you do not believe them or that you disagree with them, or to show that you are angry with them
• Oh come on, Ian, you made the same excuse last week!
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Interjections ↑Sounds used as interjections
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▪ II. come on/along phrasal verb [ came on/along comes on/along coming on/along ]
to make progress
• Your piano playing has really come on since I last heard you play.
• How's your English coming on?
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Making progress and advancing ↑Becoming better
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