Occur
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: /əˈkÉœË/
- US IPA: /əˈkÉ/
- Rhymes: -ÉœË(r)
Origin
Originally "meet, meet in argument", from Middle French occurrer, from Latin occurrÅ ("run to meet, run against, befall, present itself") from prefix ob- ("against") + verb currÅ ("run, hurry, move").
Full definition of occur
Verb
- To happen or take place.The liftoff will occur in exactly twelve seconds.
- 1959, Georgette Heyer, The Unknown Ajax Chapter 1, 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, ...
- (sciences) To be present or found.The chemical monofluoroacetate occurs in all parts of Dichapetalum cymosum, and is responsible for its toxic effects.