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oc⋅cur

  [uh-kur]
Use occur in a Sentence
–verb (used without object), -curred, -cur⋅ring.
1. to happen; take place; come to pass: When did the accident occur?
2. to be met with or found; present itself; appear.
3. to suggest itself in thought; come to mind (usually fol. by to): An idea occurred to me.
Origin:
1520–30; < L occurrere to run to meet, arrive, meet, equiv. to oc- oc- + currere to run

Synonyms:
1. befall. See happen. 2. arise, offer.
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oc·cur   (ə-kûr')   
intr.v.   oc·curred, oc·cur·ring, oc·curs
  1. To take place; come about. See Synonyms at happen.
  2. To be found to exist or appear: Copper deposits occur in the region.
  3. To come to mind: The idea never occurred to me.

[Latin occurrere : ob-, toward; see ob- + currere, to run; see kers- in Indo-European roots.]
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Occur

Oc*cur"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Occurred; p. pr. & vb. n. Occurring.] [L. occurrere, occursum; ob (see Ob-) + currere to run. See Course.]

1. To meet; to clash. [Obs.]

The resistance of the bodies they occur with. --Bentley.

2. To go in order to meet; to make reply. [Obs.]

I must occur to one specious objection. --Bentley.

3. To meet one's eye; to be found or met with; to present itself; to offer; to appear; to happen; to take place; as, I will write if opportunity occurs.

In Scripture, though the word heir occur, yet there is no such thing as "heir" in our author's sense. --Locke.

4. To meet or come to the mind; to suggest itself; to be presented to the imagination or memory.

There doth not occur to me any use of this experiment for profit. --Bacon.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : occur
Spanish: ocurrir, suceder, tener lugar,
German: sich ereignen,
Japanese: 起こる
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occur 
1527, "meet, meet in argument," from M.Fr. occurrer, from L. occurrere "run to meet, run against, befall, present itself," from ob "against, toward" + currere "to run" (see current). Sense development is from "meet" to "present itself" to "appear" to "happen" ("present itself in the course of events"). Meaning "to come into one's mind" is from 1626.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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