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Webster 1913 Edition
Occur
Oc-cur′
,Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Occurred
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Occurring
.] 1.
To meet; to clash.
[Obs.]
The resistance of the bodies they
occur
with. Bentley.
2.
To go in order to meet; to make reply.
[Obs.]
I must
occur
to one specious objection. Bentley.
3.
To meet one’s eye; to be found or met with; to present itself; to appear.
In Scripture, though the word heir
occur
, yet there is no such thing as “heir” in our author's sense. Locke.
4.
To happen; to take place;
as, I will write if opportunity
. occurs
There doth not
occur
to me any use of this experiment for profit. Bacon.
Webster 1828 Edition
Occur
OCCUR'
,Verb.
I.
1.
Primarily, to meet; to strike against; to clash; and so used by Bentley, but this application is obsolete.2.
To meet or come to the mind; to be presented to the mind, imagination or memory. We say, no better plan occurs to me or to my mind; it does not occur to my recollection; the thought did not occur to me.There doth not occur to me any use of this experiment for profit.
3.
To appear; to meet the eye; to be found here and there. This word occurs in twenty places in the Scriptures; the other word does not occur in a single place; it does not occur in the sense suggested.4.
To oppose; to obviate. [Not used.]Definition 2024
occur
occur
English
Verb
occur (third-person singular simple present occurs, present participle occurring, simple past and past participle occurred)
- To happen or take place.
- The liftoff will occur in exactly twelve seconds.
- 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:
- And no use for anyone to tell Charles that this was because the Family was in mourning for Mr Granville Darracott […]: Charles might only have been second footman at Darracott Place for a couple of months when that disaster occurred, but no one could gammon him into thinking that my lord cared a spangle for his heir.
- To present or offer (itself).
- I will write if the opportunity occurs.
- (impersonal) To come or be presented to the mind; to suggest (itself).
- 1995, Theodore Kaczynski, Industrial Society and Its Future,
- Apparently it never occurs to them that you can't make rapid, drastic changes in the technology and the economy of a society without causing rapid changes in all other aspects of the society as well, [...]
- 1995, Theodore Kaczynski, Industrial Society and Its Future,
- (sciences) To be present or found.
- The chemical monofluoroacetate occurs in all parts of Dichapetalum cymosum, and is responsible for its toxic effects.
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Translations
take place
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present itself
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meet or come to the mind
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be present or found