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[ verb ] come to pass
Synonyms Examples "What is happening?" "The meeting took place off without an incidence" "Nothing occurred that seemed important" Used in print (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 . |
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[ verb ] come to one's mind; suggest itself
Synonyms Examples "It occurred to me that we should hire another secretary" "A great idea then came to her" Used in print (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 . Related terms |
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[ verb ] happen, occur, take place
Synonyms 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" Used in print (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 ) . |
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[ verb ] be a forerunner of or occur earlier than, as in
Synonyms happen take_place go_on pass come_about anticipate pass_off hap fall_out Examples : "This composition anticipates Impressionism" |
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