Definition of Becomes

1. Verb. (third-person singular of become) ¹

2. Verb. (computing) The two-character symbol sequence ":=" used in some programming languages to mean ''is assigned the value of''. Used to distinguish between assignment of value and comparison for equality. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Becomes

1. become [v] - See also: become

Lexicographical Neighbors of Becomes

beclouds
beclout
beclown
beclowned
beclowning
beclowns
beclumpse
becollared
become
become flat
become of
becomed
becomeness
becomer
becomers
becomes (current term)
becometh
becoming
becomingly
becomingness
becomings
becomse
becover
becoward
becowarded
becowarding
becowards
becquerel
becquerelite
becquerels

Literary usage of Becomes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"of the activities ; and it is the special merit of this classification that it is based on and in turn becomes an index to what the peoples habitually do, ..."

2. Around the world in eighty days, tr. by G.M. Towle by Jules Verne (1874)
"... NOSE becomes OUTRAGEOUSLY LONG. THE next morning poor, jaded, famished Passepartout said to himself that he must get something to eat at all hazards, ..."

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