Definition of occure
1. occur [ v ] come to pass
Examples:
"What is happening?"
"The meeting took place off without an incidence"
"Nothing occurred that seemed important"
(The Times-Picayune, [New Orleans]...)
The latter is likely to occur when the thyroid is removed .
(Tristram P. Coffin, "Folklore in the American Twentieth...)
What actually occurred in the past is seldom as important as what a given generation feels must have occurred .
What actually occurred in the past is seldom as important as what a given generation feels must have occurred .
(Frank Oppenheimer, "Science and Fear-- A Discussion...)
We , in our country , think_of war as an external threat which , if it occurs , will not be primarily of our own doing .
How and why this process occurs would provide an interesting separate subject for study .
Synonyms happen occur take_place go_on pass come_about pass_off hap Related Terms come anticipate happen work turn_out proceed happen arise recur concur develop befall fall fall chance go_off synchronize break give supervene come_around transpire break2. occur [ v ] come to one's mind; suggest itself
Examples:
"It occurred to me that we should hire another secretary"
"A great idea then came to her"
(Edward Austin Walton, "On Education for the Interior...)
It will occur to anyone that the teacher must have adequate education , a depth and breadth of knowledge far beyond the immediate necessities of his course plus complete dedication to his subject and to his students .
(Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)
Emerson , in his lecture , refers to the `` startling experience which almost every person confesses in daylight , that particular passages of conversation and action have occurred to him in the same order before , whether dreaming or waking , a suspicion that they have been with precisely these persons in precisely this room , and heard precisely this dialogue , at some former hour , they know not when '' .
At that moment Kipling was overwhelmed with awed amazement , suddenly recalling that these identical details of scene , action and word had occurred to him in a dream six weeks earlier .
(Tristram Coffin, Not to the Swift....)
It just did n't occur to Trig that anything serious would happen to him .
(W. E. B. DuBois, Worlds of Color....)
After looking about a_bit , Wilson discovered beyond Black_Bottom , across the river and far removed from the white city , a considerable tract of land , and it occurred to him that the church and the better Negro homes might gradually be moved to this plot .
Synonyms occur come Related Terms become3. occur [ v ] happen, occur, take place
Examples:
"I lost my wallet
this was during the visit to my parents'
house"
"There were two hundred people at his funeral"
"There was a lot of noise in the kitchen"
(Jaroslav Pelikan, The Shape of Death: life, death and...)
This idea , which occurs in both Tatian and Cyprian , fits especially well into the scheme of Irenaeus ' theology ; for it prepares the way for the passage from life through death to life that is achieved in Christ .
(Howard Nemerov, "Themes and Methods: The Early...)
And this occurs now , at the refrain of Jacoby 's song - at the point , in_fact , of the name `` Lizzy '' - ; a modulation described as `` almost a stroke of genius '' .
(Raymond C. Binder et al., editors, Proceedings...)
As it turned_out , a very hot region occurred on the plug .
(Richard F. McLaughlin, et al., "A study of the...)
Such a dual derivation was strikingly demonstrated during the injection process where initial filling would be noted to occur in several isolated pleural vessels at_once .
Also , interlobular air drifts may be all_but nonexistent in the cow ; probably occur in the horse much_as in the human_being ; and , in contrast are present to a relatively immense degree on a segmental basis in the dog where lobules are absent ( Van_Allen and Lindskog , ' 31 ) .
Synonyms be occur Related Terms lie fall run abound_in interlude4. occur [ v ] to be found to exist
Examples:
"sexism occurs in many workplaces"
"precious stones occur in a large area in Brazil"
5. occur [ v ] be a forerunner of or occur earlier than, as in
Examples: : "This composition anticipates Impressionism"
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