Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To take place; come about. synonym: happen.
- intransitive verb To be found to exist or appear.
- intransitive verb To come to mind.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To run to, as for the purpose of assisting.
- To run together; meet; clash.
- To strike the senses; be found; be met with: as, silver often occurs native; the statement occurs repeatedly.
- To emerge as an event into the actual world; happen; take place; come to pass; befall: as, what has occurred?
- To strike the mind: with to.
- Eccles., to coincide in time, so as to interfere each with the celebration of the other: as, two holy days occur.
- To refer: with to.
- Synonyms To come to pass, come about, fall out.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb obsolete To meet; to clash.
- intransitive verb obsolete To go in order to meet; to make reply.
- intransitive verb To meet one's eye; to be found or met with; to present itself; to appear.
- intransitive verb To happen; to take place.
- intransitive verb To come to the mind; to arise in the mind; to suggest itself; to be presented to the imagination or memory; -- of an idea or thought.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
happen or take place. - verb To
present oroffer itself. - verb To come or be
presented to themind ; tosuggest itself. - verb sciences To be
present orfound .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb come to one's mind; suggest itself
- verb come to pass
- verb to be found to exist
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Richard’s first charter to the City (23 April, 1194) (166) granted a few weeks after his return from abroad makes no mention of a mayor, nor does the title occur in any royal charter affecting the City until the year
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Levantones occur is two vastly different ways, though.
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Levantones occur is two vastly different ways, though.
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Levantones occur is two vastly different ways, though.
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Global warming can occur from a variety of causes, both natural and human induced.
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Levantones occur is two vastly different ways, though.
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Levantones occur is two vastly different ways, though.
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Levantones occur is two vastly different ways, though.
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Levantones occur is two vastly different ways, though.
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Toxic algae appear to be increasing worldwide as coastal pollution increases. 4 Many fish poisoning are likely to occur from the result of ingesting fish toxic with Harmful Algal Blooms (HAB).
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