occur
part of speech
verb (occur, occurs, occurred, occurring)
meaning for a pupil
1) (formal) To happen, especially without being planned. tree →
2) To be found or to exist somewhere. tree →
3) occur to someone: to come into someone's mind. tree →
sense in the lessons
Formal exam word for "happen": "how many times does the number 3 occur?" means how many times it appears. In science: earthquakes occur along faults. Phrases: occur to, it occurred to me.
examples
- THU and BHU ; these two words occur in Genesis i. 2, and are translated '' waste and void." (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →
- 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) tree →
- 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)) tree →
- Accidents often occur in the kitchen. tree →
- How many times does the letter e occur in "sheep"? tree →
- Earthquakes occur where plates meet. tree →
- It occurred to me that I had left my bag at school. tree →
- This kind of frog occurs only in the rainforest. tree →
- The storm occurred during the night. tree →
note
Double r in occurred, occurring, and occurrence (also double c). In a maths problem "occurs" usually asks you to count how many times something appears.
In the corpora
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «occur» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.