单词 | incoming |
释义 | incomingin‧com‧ing /ˈɪnkʌmɪŋ/ adjective [only before noun] Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatora plane, ship, train, bus etc arrives► arrive Collocations · What time does his flight arrive?· The train isn't due to arrive until 4.30.arrive at/in/from · Our flight arrived in Osaka two hours ahead of schedule.· Supply ships have started arriving at ports along the East coast. ► get in to arrive -- use this when you are talking about the time when a train, ship, or plane arrives: · What time does your flight get in?· Hopefully the bus will get in by 8 o'clock.get in to: · The ferry gets in to Harwich around noon. ► land if a plane lands , it arrives at an airport: · Despite severe weather conditions, the Boeing 727 landed as scheduled.land at: · When the plane landed at JFK, it was three hours late.land in: · Before landing in Algiers, we circled the airport several times.come in to land (=go down towards the ground at an airport): · There's a plane coming in to land now. ► come in if a plane, ship, or train comes in , it arrives in the place where you are waiting: · Has the Air India flight come in yet?· Crowds had gathered at the harbour to watch the ship come in. ► dock if a ship docks , it arrives at a port: dock at/in: · When the ship docked at Southampton its cargo was immediately inspected.· We finally docked in Portland, Maine, happy to be on dry land again. ► pull in if a train, car, or bus pulls in , it arrives at the station or the place where you are waiting: · Finally the bus pulled in, forty minutes late.· Just as the train was pulling in, there was a shout and someone fell onto the track. ► be in if you say that a plane, train or ship is in , it has arrived at the airport, station etc where you are waiting: · Their plane's in, but it'll take them a little while to get through customs.· As her train wasn't in yet, she went to the bookstall and flipped through the magazines. ► incoming: incoming plane/flight/train etc a place, train etc that is arriving somewhere rather than leaving: · All incoming flights are being delayed by fog.· The crash occurred when a freight train collided with an incoming passenger train. COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► incoming/outgoing calls 1arriving at or coming to a place OPP outgoing: incoming flights Incoming calls were monitored. the incoming tide2an incoming president, government etc has just been elected or chosen OPP outgoing: the incoming administration (=coming into or going out of a place)· You have to dial 9 first to make an outgoing call. ► the incoming tide· The box was carried upstream on the incoming tide. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► call· It wasn't permitted to take incoming calls on the pay phone in the hallway of the hotel.· Just how many incoming calls will be blocked?· As some one who hates being pestered by incoming calls, I no longer see the point of a cellular phone.· She took only incoming calls from Sheila.· If you leave the fax software running, waiting to answer incoming calls, you can't use the data modem as well.· Odyssey also comes with host mode which means you can set your computer to wait for incoming calls. ► government· So, how many policies were reversed by the incoming government, and which policies and areas of policy were left untouched?· In 1979, he said, the incoming government had felt the unemployment figures were too high.· The incoming government should give them their marching orders.· Its credibility suffered: incoming governments often changed its Director-General - it had six in 10 years.· And not until mid-1993 will any incoming government get a chance to tinker with the existing composition of the Board of Governors.· And an incoming government must encourage industry to use reclaimed materials - and back its drive with financial incentives if necessary. ► mail· Mail for guests in residence Any incoming mail for guests should be sorted and placed in the letter rack.· Each neuron is a node where thousands of wires converge, where incoming mail is digested and sometimes turned into outgoing mail.· Most programs can filter incoming mail into designated mailboxes, either as it arrives or afterwards.· I would only trash incoming mail from obvious opponents and obvious loonies. ► missile· Their armour provides excellent protection from incoming missile fire. ► president· The incoming president begins to distance himself from a person he recently described as a moral and intellectual giant.· Mr Bush is unlikely to restore it, unless Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the incoming president, embarks on reform. ► student· When the program began, Brown recalled, 700 incoming students had opted for a major in engineering.· These figures would rise over the next eight years until all incoming students would be expected to have completed 16 academic credits. ► tide· The noise of the incoming tide had interrupted their games on the sand further out in the estuary.· They write themselves, the way an incoming tide seeks its own level.· But once she was alone with her knitting depression crept up on Leonora like an incoming tide.· It was swamped by the incoming tide and sank at about 5am yesterday.· She guessed they'd come about twenty yards inland; she could still hear the sigh and fall of the incoming tide.· The striking of the half hour alerted me to the incoming tide of darkness.· When the track splits at a sign warning of incoming tides, take the left fork towards the shore. |
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