com

¹

[kom, see-oh-em]

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

com-

²

1. 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.

³

abbreviation

1. comedy.

2. comma.

3. command.

4. commander.

5. commerce.

6. commercial.

7. commission.

8. commissioner.

9. committee.

10. common.

11. commonly.

12. communications.

Com.

⁴

abbreviation

1. Commander.

2. Commission.

3. Commissioner.

4. Committee.

5. Commodore.

6. Commonwealth.

COM

⁵

[kom]

noun

1. Trademark.,  Comedy Central: a cable television channel.

2. computer output on microfilm.

com-

¹

prefix

1. together; with; jointly

   commingle

COM

²

/ kɒm /

noun

1. 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

³

abbreviation

1. a commercial company

Com.

⁴

abbreviation

1. Commander

2. committee

3. Commodore

.com

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

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.”

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

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

Example Sentences

The statue is the first to celebrate a rom com on Leicester Square's Scenes in the Square trail.

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"We currently only have one source in the Large Magellanic Cloud and only four sources with detection of these complex organic molecules in ices in the Milky Way. We need larger samples from both to confirm our initial results that indicate differences in COM abundances between these two galaxies," Sewilo said.

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Kirsty Tullett-Jones, director of marketing and communications for Discover Leicester Square, said it was "about time we added a rom com statue to the line-up".

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I suppose some die-hards might actually have thought that adding “.com” to a company name justified an average 74% rise in the stock over the next week and a half or that it really made sense to value companies by measuring their price per online click.

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Leon Gross, an analyst with S3 Partners, noted in a report this week that the big gain for the Global X Artificial Intelligence & Technology ETF, which is up about 30% this year, “echoes the dot-com era, when companies added ‘.com’ or ‘.net’ to their names to attract capital—a textbook case of thematic investing fueled by perception over substance.”

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