Happen vs Recur - What's the difference?
happen | recur |
To occur or take place.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
, volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= To occur unexpectedly, by chance or with a low probability.
To encounter by chance.
* 1860 , , The Marble Faun , ch. 30:
(obsolete or dialect) maybe, perhaps.
English catenative verbs
1000 English basic words
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To have recourse (to) someone or something for assistance, support etc.
*1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 43:
*:She only replied with a laugh, and he evidently deemed futile the bid for sympathy on the score of religious or irreligious fellowship, for he recurred to it no more.
To happen again.
(computing) To recurse.
As a noun happen
is morsel.As a verb recur is
to have recourse (to) someone or something for assistance, support etc.happen
English
Verb
(en verb)Our banks are out of control, passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around.}}
- Unexpectedly, in a nook close by the farmhouse, he happened upon a spot where the vintage had actually commenced.
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . SeeDerived terms
* as it happens * happen along * happener * happeningly * it so happensAdverb
(-)recur
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Verb
(recurr)- The theme of the prodigal son recurs later in the third act.