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# occur

«occur» in Mova's school dictionary: **To happen, especially without being planned** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (occur, occurs, occurred, occurring)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (formal) To happen, especially without being planned. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/occur/#m1)

2) To be found or to exist somewhere. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/occur/#m2)

3) occur to someone: to come into someone's mind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/occur/#m3)

### 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

- Accidents often occur in the kitchen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/occur/#x1)
- How many times does the letter e occur in "sheep"? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/occur/#x2)
- Earthquakes occur where plates meet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/occur/#x3)
- It occurred to me that I had left my bag at school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/occur/#x4)
- This kind of frog occurs only in the rainforest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/occur/#x5)
- The storm occurred during the night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/occur/#x6)

### 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

- [Selling the horse had not occurred to Toad before.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg/28/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «occur» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/occur/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.