COME TOGETHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does come together mean? 

• COME TOGETHER (verb)
  The verb COME TOGETHER has 1 sense:

1. come together, as if in an embrace

  Familiarity information: COME TOGETHER used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COME TOGETHER (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Come together, as if in an embrace

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

close; come together

Context example:

Her arms closed around her long lost relative

Hypernyms (to "come together" is one way to...):

move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)

Sentence frame:

Something is ----ing PP

 Context examples 

Understanding how the components of wood come together to make super strong structures is important for understanding both how plants mature, and for new materials design.

(Revealing the nanostructure of wood could help raise height limits for wooden skyscrapers, University of Cambridge)

Phosphine is a molecule made from one phosphorous and three hydrogen atoms, which normally do not prefer to come together.

(Poisonous Earthly Molecule May Be Sign of Extraterrestrial Life, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Two major bile ducts come together into a "trunk"-the common bile duct which empties into the upper part of the small intestine (the part next to the stomach).

(Common bile duct, NCI Thesaurus)

I remember, as soon as ever I saw him, when he first came into Hertfordshire last year, I thought how likely it was that you should come together.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The region that circles the Earth, near the equator, where the trade winds of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres come together.

(Intertropical Convergence Zone, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

An accident resulting from violent impact of a moving object; an brief event in which two or more bodies come together.

(Collision, NCI Thesaurus)

The researchers observed that when calcium levels in the nerve cell increase, such as upon neuronal signalling, the alpha-synuclein binds to synaptic vesicles at multiple points causing the vesicles to come together.

(Calcium May Play A Role in Development of Parkinson's Disease, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A joint is where two or more bones come together, like the knee, hip, elbow, or shoulder.

(Joint Disorders, NIH: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases)

Even before the star is fully formed, those dust grains come together to form pebbles, rocks and ultimately comets, which become transporters of phosphorus monoxide.

(Astronomers Reveal Interstellar Thread of One of Life’s Building Blocks, ESO)

If you do have a disagreement near the eclipse of January 10, let things rest until January 12 before you come together again to talk.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)