📖 O — The English dictionary · page 4

occasionally — Everyday, meaning 1: Occasionally means sometimes, but not often or regularly.↗ Example: We occasionally go to the cinema on Saturdays.↗ · It occasionally snows in London.↗ · I occasionally forget my PE kit.↗ · The volcano still erupts occasionally.↗ · Grandad visits us occasionally from Scotland.↗ · Only very occasionally does the teacher shout.↗ · Bears occasionally come into the campsite, so lock the bins.↗ · The bear permitted them to amuse themselves in this way, only occasionally calling out, when it went a little too far, "Children, spare me an inch of life."↗

occasions — Everyday, meaning 1: Times when something happens: «on three occasions» means three times.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Special events or celebrations, like weddings or birthdays.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (formal) Reasons or causes: «There is no occasion to worry.».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (formal verb) To occasion something is to cause it.↗ Example: We only use the best plates on special occasions.↗ · She has been late on three occasions this term.↗ · Birthdays and weddings are happy occasions.↗ · On occasion, we eat dinner in front of the TV.↗ · He rose to the occasion and scored the winning goal.↗ · On how many occasions did Tom visit the zoo?↗ · The youngest was called Dummerly, and was on all occasions scorned and ill-treated by the whole family.↗ · Behold, He findeth occasions against me, He counteth me for His enemy; (Writings JOB.33.10, JPS 1917)↗

occident — Everyday, meaning 1: The Occident is the Western part of the world, meaning Europe and the countries settled from it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old use) The Occident is the West, as opposed to the East.↗ Example: «Orient and Occident» meet in this book of old tales.↗ · Stories travelled from the Orient to the Occident.↗ · Our teacher explained the difference between the Occident and the Orient.↗

occlusion — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal, medicine) A blocking or closing of a tube, pipe or blood vessel.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (dentistry) The way your top and bottom teeth fit together when you bite.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (weather) An occluded front, where a cold front catches up with a warm front.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (science, astronomy) One object hiding another from view, as when the Moon passes in front of a star.↗ Example: The doctor found an occlusion in the blood vessel.↗ · The dentist checked my occlusion to see how my teeth meet.↗ · Braces can fix a bad occlusion.↗ · The weather map showed an occlusion bringing rain.↗ · An eclipse is a kind of occlusion of the Sun.↗ · In video games, occlusion means hiding objects behind others.↗

occult — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Hidden, secret, or magical, and known only to a few.↗ Example: The Seven Heavens and the Seven Earths are printed with errors, and I believe intentional mistakes, in many occult ancient books.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · The Seventh Path is the Occult Intelligence, because it is the Refulgent Splendor of all the Intellectual virtues which are perceived by the eyes of intellect, and by the contemplation of faith.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · The Seventh Path is the Occult Intelligence, because it is the Refulgent Splendour of all the Intellectual virtues which are perceived by the eyes of intellect, and by the contemplation of faith.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

occultism — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Belief in or study of hidden or magical powers.↗

occultist — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A person who studies or practices hidden or magical arts.↗ Example: Eliphas Lévi, the famous French Occultist, thus wrote of the "Sepher Yetzirah," in his "Histoire de la Magie," P. 54: "The Zoharis a Genesis of illumination, the Sepher Jezirah is a ladder formed of truths.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

occupant — Everyday, meaning 1: An occupant is a person who lives in a house or flat, or who is in a room, seat or car at a certain time.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An occupant is a person or animal using a place.↗ Example: The house has a new occupant.↗ · All occupants must leave during the fire alarm.↗ · The lift holds a maximum of 8 occupants.↗ · Each car had 3 occupants.↗ · The bird box's occupant was a blue tit.↗ · (formal) The letter was addressed «To the occupant».↗ · Yonder in the canal lay the ships frozen up, and deserted by their whole crews, with a screaming crow for the sole occupant.↗

occupation — Everyday, meaning 1: An occupation is a job or the kind of work a person does.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An occupation is something you spend your time doing, like a hobby.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Occupation is when an army takes control of a country or place and stays there.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Occupation is living in or using a building.↗ Example: What is your dad's occupation?↗ · Her occupation is nurse.↗ · My uncle is a carpenter by occupation.↗ · Reading is my favourite occupation on rainy days.↗ · The town was under enemy occupation during the war.↗ · The house is ready for occupation next month.↗ · Write your parent's occupation on the form.↗ · Farming was the main occupation in the village long ago.↗ · It took some time, and was not a comfortable occupation.↗ · And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say: What is your occupation?↗ (Torah GEN.46.33, JPS 1917)↗ · And Pharaoh said unto his brethren: 'What is your occupation?'↗ And they said unto Pharaoh: 'Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and our fathers.'↗ (Torah GEN.47.3, JPS 1917)↗ · For all his days are pains, and his occupation vexation; yea, even in the night his heart taketh not rest.↗ (Writings ECC.2.23, JPS 1917)↗ · Then said they unto him: 'Tell us, we pray thee, for whose cause this evil is upon us: what is thine occupation? and whence comest thou? what is thy country? and of what people art thou?'↗ (Prophets JON.1.8, JPS 1917)↗

occupational — Everyday, meaning 1: To do with a person's job or work.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Caused by or happening because of someone's work, as in "occupational injury".↗ Example: Sunburn is an occupational hazard for lifeguards.↗ · An occupational therapist helped my brother hold his pencil better.↗ · Builders wear hard hats for occupational safety.↗ · Getting paint on your clothes is an occupational hazard for artists.↗ · The company has an occupational health nurse.↗ · Back pain can be an occupational injury for nurses.↗

occupied — Everyday, meaning 1: (adjective) Being used by someone, not free (the toilet is occupied, an occupied seat).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (adjective) Busy, or having your mind or time filled with something.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Lived in (an occupied house).↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Taken and controlled by an army or a group.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Filled a space or an amount of time.↗ Example: The toilet is occupied, please wait.↗ · 45 of the 60 seats are occupied.↗ · The puzzle kept the kids occupied for an hour.↗ · She is occupied with her homework.↗ · The house has been occupied by the same family for a long time.↗ · The town was occupied by soldiers in the war.↗ · Toys occupied every shelf in his room.↗ · However, he stayed there and occupied himself as best he could.↗ · These were the potters, and those that dwelt among plantations and hedges; there they dwelt occupied in the king's work.↗ (Writings 1CH.4.23, JPS 1917)↗ · Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to be occupied in deeds of wickedness with men that work iniquity; and let me not eat of their dainties.↗ (Writings PSA.141.4, JPS 1917)↗

occupy — Everyday, meaning 1: To live in or use a building, room or space.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To fill time or keep someone busy.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To take control of a place by force, such as an army.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To have a job or position.↗ Example: The family occupies the flat on the top floor.↗ · The toilet is occupied: please wait.↗ · Reading occupies me on long journeys.↗ · The soldiers occupied the castle.↗ · The table occupies a lot of space.↗ · She occupies an important job at the council.↗ · Keep the toddler occupied with toys.↗ · I am glad to find that I still occupy a corner in your mind.↗ · J{ecause the zero in the number ten occupies the space. of a digit, onlv nine strokes, not ten, are used: and, therefore, we (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · On the other hand, the n occurs at the end of words as silent, indicating that it occupies the place of a vowel letter.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · As zero is not a digit itself, but only occupies the place of a digit, so the silent n is not a vowel itself, but merely occupies the place of a vowel.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · Support Thou me, and I shall be saved; and I will occupy myself with Thy statutes continually.↗ (Writings PSA.119.117, JPS 1917)↗

occur — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) To happen, especially without being planned.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To be found or to exist somewhere.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: occur to someone: to come into someone's mind.↗ Example: Accidents often occur in the kitchen.↗ · How many times does the letter e occur in "sheep"?↗ · Earthquakes occur where plates meet.↗ · It occurred to me that I had left my bag at school.↗ · This kind of frog occurs only in the rainforest.↗ · The storm occurred during the night.↗ · THU and BHU ; these two words occur in Genesis i. 2, and are translated '' waste and void."↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · The Samaritans still to this day preserve a tradition allowing Resh to occur in both single and double forms, bearing a distinction comparable to the difference between the Spanish single r of pero and double rr of perro.]↗ Taw-Thaw.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · The quoted title was given to the treatise apparently because of the following passage occurring therein: (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

occurrence — Everyday, meaning 1: Something that happens; an event.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The fact of something happening or how often it happens (the occurrence of storms).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (formal) Being found or existing somewhere (the occurrence of gold in rocks).↗ Example: Snow in our town is a rare occurrence.↗ · Fights at break are a common occurrence.↗ · Tally the occurrence of each colour of car.↗ · The occurrence of earthquakes is high in Japan.↗ · Rainbows are a beautiful occurrence.↗ · Count the occurrences of the letter "e" in the sentence.↗ · Every flower that opened heard of this occurrence.↗ · Although the number 32 is not ruminated upon any further after SY 1:1, subsequent commentaries have associated it with the 32 occurrences of the name אֱלֹהִים Elohim in [Genesis 1].↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · The three occurrences of the root SPR that follow, “with ספר SPR and ספר SPR and ספור SPWR”, are here interpreted respectively as סָפַר safar ‘to count’, representing counting/mahetmatics; סֵפר sefer ‘scroll, book’, representing writing; and סִפּוּר sippur, representing speech.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · But now the LORD my God hath given me rest on every side; there is neither adversary, nor evil occurrence.↗ (Prophets 1KI.5.18, JPS 1917)↗

ocean — Everyday, meaning 1: The huge body of salt water that covers most of the Earth.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: One of its five big named parts: the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern and Arctic Oceans.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A very large amount (informal: oceans of time).↗ Example: The Pacific Ocean is the largest ocean.↗ · Oceans cover most of our planet.↗ · Ocean water is too salty to drink.↗ · Whales live in the ocean.↗ · Plastic bags can hurt animals in the ocean.↗ · We sailed across the Atlantic Ocean.↗ · The ocean floor is dark and cold.↗ · In the US people say «the ocean» where people in the UK often say «the sea».↗

oceanic — Everyday, meaning 1: To do with the ocean or living in the ocean.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Like an ocean: very big and wide.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (geography) To do with Oceania, the region of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific islands.↗ Example: Whales and albatrosses are oceanic animals.↗ · The oceanic crust is thinner than the continental crust.↗ · Hawaii is a group of oceanic islands made by volcanoes.↗ · The Mariana Trench is the deepest oceanic trench.↗ · New Zealand has an oceanic climate.↗ · Oceanic winds carried the boat far from land.↗

ocelot — Everyday, meaning 1: An ocelot is a wild cat about twice the size of a pet cat, with spotted and striped fur, living in the forests of Central and South America.↗ Example: The ocelot has beautiful spotted fur.↗ · Ocelots live in South American rainforests.↗ · An ocelot hunts small animals at night.↗ · Ocelots are good at climbing and swimming.↗ · People once hunted ocelots for their fur.↗ · The ocelot is about twice as big as a house cat.↗

oct — Everyday, meaning 1: Oct. — short for October, the tenth month.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Short for octave in music, or octal (base 8) in computing and maths.↗ Example: The school trip is on 14 Oct.↗ · Write the date as 3 Oct or 3 October.↗ · Half-term starts at the end of Oct.↗ · The calendar showed Sep, Oct, Nov.↗ · Oct- means eight, as in octagon.↗ · The piano piece jumps up an oct here.↗

october — Everyday, meaning 1: October is the tenth month of the year.↗ It has 31 days and comes after September and before November.↗ Example: In October she read 12 books.↗ · He saved 5 dollars every day in October.↗ · The fair is in October.↗ · October has 31 days.↗ · Halloween is at the end of October.↗ · In October the leaves turn red and gold in Canada.↗ · In Australia, October is in spring.↗ · October comes after September.↗

octopod — Everyday, meaning 1: (science) An animal with eight arms or legs, especially an octopus.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (science) A member of the group of sea animals that includes octopuses.↗ Example: An octopus is an octopod with eight arms.↗ · Squid are not octopods because they have ten limbs.↗ · The deep-sea dumbo octopus is a cute octopod.↗ · Scientists study how octopods change colour.↗ · The robot octopod walked on eight legs.↗ · Octopods are very clever and can open jars.↗