• occurre(obsolete)

Originally "meet (in argument)", borrowed fromMiddle Frenchoccurrer, fromLatinoccurrō(“run to meet, run against, befall, present itself”) from prefixob-(“against”) + verbcurrō(“run, hurry, move”).

• (Received Pronunciation,General Australian)IPA^(key):/əˈkɜː/

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• (US)IPA^(key):/əˈkɝ/

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• (Scotland)IPA^(key):/əˈkʌr/
• (New Zealand)IPA^(key):/əˈkøː/
• (Liverpool,fair–fur merger)IPA^(key):/əˈkeː/
• (Humberside,Teesside,fair–fur merger)IPA^(key):/əˈkɛː/
• (Lancashire,fair–fur merger)IPA^(key):/əˈkɜː(ɹ)/
• Rhymes:-ɜː(ɹ)

occur (third-person singular simple presentoccurs,present participleoccurring,simple past and past participleoccurred)

1. (intransitive) Tohappen ortake place.

   The liftoff willoccur in exactly twelve seconds.

   • 1959,Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, inThe 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 disasteroccurred, but no one could gammon him into thinking that my lord cared a spangle for his heir.

2. (intransitive) Topresent oroffer itself.

   I will write if the opportunityoccurs.

3. (impersonal) To come or bepresented to themind; tosuggest itself.

   One little incident of my school daysoccurs to me as amusing.

   Itoccurred to him to tell me of the problem.

   • 1995,Theodore Kaczynski,Industrial Society and Its Future:

     Apparently it neveroccurs 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,[…]

4. (intransitive,sciences) To bepresent orfound.

   The chemical monofluoroacetateoccurs in all parts ofDichapetalum cymosum, and is responsible for its toxic effects.

• (happen):belimp(obsolete),betide(obsolete),betime(obsolete),come to pass,happen,take place; See alsoThesaurus:happen
• (present itself):appear,arise,come up
• (meet or come to the mind):
• (be present or found):

• occurrent
• occurrence