come from
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Verb[edit]
come from (third-person singular simple present comes from, present participle coming from, simple past came from, past participle come from)
- (transitive) To have as one's birthplace or nationality.
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Most tourists in Mallorca come from England. My girlfriend comes from Sweden, but is black because her parents are Swedish.
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- (transitive) To be derived from.
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2013 July-August, Lee S. Langston, “The Adaptable Gas Turbine”, in American Scientist:
- Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.
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