come about
End up happening
To come about is for something to happen or occur, often suggesting a process rather than a sudden event: How did this situation come about?
The phrase implies curiosity about causes or circumstances.
In sailing, to come about is to change course by turning the bow through the wind.
Come into being
- transpireHappen or become known
- unfoldSpread open from closed
- emergeCome out into view
- ariseCome into being
ensue · materialize · develop · result · take place · befall · originate · proceed
Sharp-headed fastener
- jibeAgree or correspond
- helmVessel's steering mechanism
- windwardFacing the wind
- leewardSheltered from wind
heading · bearing · starboard · port · rudder · sailing · maneuver · wind shift
Thorough change in form
- shiftMovement or work period
- transitionChange from one state
- evolutionSpecies changing over generations
- alterationAct of modifying
turnaround · reversal · modification · conversion · adjustment · reform · restructuring · renewal
occur
Come into being
arise · ensue · materialize · develop · result · take place · befall · originate · proceed · surface
tack
Sharp-headed fastener
leeward · heading · bearing · starboard · port · rudder · sailing · maneuver · wind shift · reach
transformation
Thorough change in form
- shiftMovement or work period
- transitionChange from one state
- evolutionSpecies changing over generations
alteration · turnaround · reversal · modification · conversion · adjustment · reform · restructuring · renewal · realignment
- sailingsailboat, sailing, sails, sailboats, catamaran
- Nautical Idiomsbatten down the hatches, all hands on deck, smooth sailing, three sheets to the wind, in the same boat
- tackingclose-hauled, zigzagging, basting, stitching, pinning
- nautical termsahoy, afloat, aye aye, aye-aye, becalmed
- linking verbsbe, am, is, are, was
come aboutfall through
Fail to materialize
come to nothing · fizzle out · stall · peter out · collapse
about, come, become, coming, income, overcome, becoming, outcome, came