com

[ kom, see-oh-em ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

(on the internet) a top-level domain appearing as a suffix on domain names used for commercial establishments.

COM

[ kom ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Trademark. Comedy Central: a cable television channel.
computer output on microfilm.

com-

a prefix meaning “with,” “together,” “in association,” and (with intensive force) “completely,” occurring in loanwords from Latin ( commit ): used in the formation of compound words before b, p, m: combine; compare; commingle.

com.

⁴

abbreviation for

comedy.
comma.
command.
commander.
commerce.
commercial.
commission.
commissioner.
committee.
common.
commonly.
communications.

Com.

⁵

abbreviation for

Commander.
Commission.
Commissioner.
Committee.
Commodore.
Commonwealth.

com-

prefix

together; with; jointly
commingle

COM

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noun

1. a process in which a computer output is converted direct to microfiche or film, esp 35 or 16 millimetre film
2. ( as modifier )
  a COM machine

Com.

abbreviation for

Commander
committee
Commodore

com

⁴

the internet domain name for

a commercial company

.com

Part of the Internet address of many companies and organizations. It indicates that the site is commercial, as opposed to educational or governmental.

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Notes

The phrase dot-com is used to refer generically to almost anything connected to business on the Internet .

The explosive growth of wealth connected to the Internet in the 1990s is often said to have created many “dot-com millionaires.”

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Word History and Origins

Origin of com¹

First recorded in 1980–85; shortening of commercial ( def ) or company ( def )

Origin of com²

< Latin, variant of preposition cum with

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Word History and Origins

Origin of com¹

from Latin com-; related to cum with. In compound words of Latin origin, com- becomes col- and cor- before l and r, co- before gn, h, and most vowels, and con- before consonants other than b, p, and m. Although its sense in compounds of Latin derivation is often obscured, it means: together, with, etc ( combine, compile ) ; similar ( conform ); extremely, completely ( consecrate )

Origin of com²

( C ) omputer ( O ) utput on ( M ) icrofilm

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Example Sentences

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Dear brothers and sisters, let us com-

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“My absolute favorite is Ca Com, the banh mi shop from the Anchovy team. They break down whole pigs in their hatted kitchen next door to make the jungle sausage in my favorite order.”

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It also conflicts with the paper trail, which shows that they incorporated and registered the domain "girlsgonebible.com" a month before the first episode was released.

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Reports from technology companies relating to young men using so-called "com networks" increased six-fold between 2022 and 2024, the agency said.

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James Babbage, the NCA's director general of threats, described 'com' networks as "the online equivalent of urban street gang committing crimes to make money cause fear and harm and gain notoriety".

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