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Themes recur again and again in my work.
Eve Arnold

Meaning of "recur" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD RECUR

From Latin recurrere, from re- + currere to run.
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PRONUNCIATION OF RECUR

recur  [rɪˈkɜː] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF RECUR

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Recur is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb recur in English.

WHAT DOES RECUR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of recur in the English dictionary

The first definition of recur in the dictionary is to happen again, esp at regular intervals. Other definition of recur is to come back to the mind. Recur is also to come up again.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO RECUR

PRESENT

Present
I recur
you recur
he/she/it recurs
we recur
you recur
they recur
Present continuous
I am recurring
you are recurring
he/she/it is recurring
we are recurring
you are recurring
they are recurring
Present perfect
I have recurred
you have recurred
he/she/it has recurred
we have recurred
you have recurred
they have recurred
Present perfect continuous
I have been recurring
you have been recurring
he/she/it has been recurring
we have been recurring
you have been recurring
they have been recurring
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I recurred
you recurred
he/she/it recurred
we recurred
you recurred
they recurred
Past continuous
I was recurring
you were recurring
he/she/it was recurring
we were recurring
you were recurring
they were recurring
Past perfect
I had recurred
you had recurred
he/she/it had recurred
we had recurred
you had recurred
they had recurred
Past perfect continuous
I had been recurring
you had been recurring
he/she/it had been recurring
we had been recurring
you had been recurring
they had been recurring
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will recur
you will recur
he/she/it will recur
we will recur
you will recur
they will recur
Future continuous
I will be recurring
you will be recurring
he/she/it will be recurring
we will be recurring
you will be recurring
they will be recurring
Future perfect
I will have recurred
you will have recurred
he/she/it will have recurred
we will have recurred
you will have recurred
they will have recurred
Future perfect continuous
I will have been recurring
you will have been recurring
he/she/it will have been recurring
we will have been recurring
you will have been recurring
they will have been recurring
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would recur
you would recur
he/she/it would recur
we would recur
you would recur
they would recur
Conditional continuous
I would be recurring
you would be recurring
he/she/it would be recurring
we would be recurring
you would be recurring
they would be recurring
Conditional perfect
I would have recur
you would have recur
he/she/it would have recur
we would have recur
you would have recur
they would have recur
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been recurring
you would have been recurring
he/she/it would have been recurring
we would have been recurring
you would have been recurring
they would have been recurring
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you recur
we let´s recur
you recur
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to recur
Past participle
recurred
Present Participle
recurring
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH RECUR


claqueur
klæˈkɜː
co-occur
ˌkəʊəˈkɜː
Coeur
kɜː
concur
kənˈkɜː
cur
kɜː
curr
kɜː
incur
ɪnˈkɜː
Kerr
kɜː
kir
kɜː
nonconcur
ˌnɒnkənˈkɜː
occur
əˈkɜː
reincur
ˌriːɪnˈkɜː
reoccur
ˌriːəˈkɜː
scur
skɜː
skirr
skɜː

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE RECUR

recuperatory
recure
recureless
recurred
recurrence
recurrency
recurrent
recurrent expenditure
recurrent fever
recurrently
recurring
recurring decimal
recurringly
recursion
recursion clause
recursion formula
recursive
recursive function
recursive subroutine
recursively

WORDS THAT END LIKE RECUR

amateur
amour
Arthur
auteur
colour
four
fur
glamour
honour
hour
humour
Kultur
our
pour
retour
sense of humour
Sur
Timur
tour
your

Synonyms and antonyms of recur in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «RECUR»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «recur» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of recur

Translation of «recur» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF RECUR

Find out the translation of recur to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of recur from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «recur» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

屡次发生
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

repetirse
570 millions of speakers

English

recur
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पुनरावृत्ति होना
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تتكرر
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

повторяются
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

recorrer
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

আবৃত্তি করা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

revenir
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Berulang
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

sich wiederholen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

再発する
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

반복되다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Mundur
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hiện lại
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இப்பிரச்சினை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पुन्हा करा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yinelemek
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ricorrere
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

powtarzać
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

повторюються
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

reapar
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

επαναληφθεί
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

herhaal
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

återkomma
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

gjenta seg
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of recur

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «RECUR»

The term «recur» is quite widely used and occupies the 41.391 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «RECUR» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about recur

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3 QUOTES WITH «RECUR»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word recur.
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Eve Arnold
Themes recur again and again in my work.
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Stefano Gabbana
Fashion takes its inspiration from society and everyday life, which is the same for everyone, and this is perhaps the reason why certain elements recur.
3
Graham Nelson
I like to employ a form of repetition, in which the same elements recur but in different and unexpected ways. rather than being discarded as soon as they are understood or passed over.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RECUR»

Discover the use of recur in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to recur and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Lessons from Disaster: How Organizations Have No Memory and ...
Looking at accidents that have occurred previously, this title discusses the apparent inability of organizations to learn and retain the lessons long term.
Trevor A. Kletz, 1993
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JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts
It returns a recur function that manages the memo store and that calls the formula function as needed. We pass the recur function and the function's parameters to the formula function: var memoizer = function (memo, formula) { var recur ...
Douglas Crockford, 2008
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The Advanced TEXbook
A little thinking shows that a macro should only expand itself conditionally. The recursive expansion should always be located inside a conditional. A simple example is \def \recur{\the\ctst\ \advance\ctst-l \ifnum\ctst>0 \recur\fi} When invoked by ...
David Salomon, 1995
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Chapel Hill Ergodic Theory Workshops
It follows that RECUR(f) is dense by the BCT. We call the system (X,f) product central if (Xn,fxn) is central for n — 1,2,... Let A be a compact subset of X. We call A a uniformly rigid subset if some subsequence of {/fc|A} converges uniformly to the ...
Idris Assani, 2004
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Clojure Programming
Clojure provides a number of useful imperative looping constructs, including doseq and dotimes, all of which are built upon recur. recur transfers control to the local-most loop head without consuming stack space, which is defined either by ...
Chas Emerick, Brian Carper, Christophe Grand, 2012
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Practical Gastroenterology and Hepatology: Esophagus and Stomach
... + TV + P [9] 15–20% recur 2% recur [1] Highest mortality rate 15–20% recur Almost disappeared [1] 2% recur [1] 15–20% recur 15–20% recur 15–20% recur 15–20% recur 15–20% recur 5% recur 5% recur Recurrent bleed → mortality 30 % ...
‎2010
7
Evaluating the Role of VDR Polymorphisms and Beta-catenin ...
No Multiple Proximal Distal OR multiple recur OR proximal recur OR distal recur rs number recur recur recur recur (95% CI)* (95% CI) (95% CI)* SNP1 AA 359 146 236 163 1.00§ 1.00* 1.00 AG 379 143 207 166 0.97 (0.74- 1.26) 0.80 (0.63 ...
Jan Bailey Egan, 2009
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Wittgenstein's Lectures on the Foundations of Mathematics, ...
If he said, "The continuation of it is S^~~*\ , ", isn't this like making a decision? Similarly with "believe that they will recur". Offhand we might say, "It means nothing at all just to say we believe they will recur." You might believe two totally different ...
Ludwig Wittgenstein, R. G. Bosanquet, Cora Diamond, 1989
9
Dispute Settlement Reports 2004
Siderca advanced an argument regarding the application of the de minimis standard but nothing to address the issue as to whether dumping was likely to continue or recur. 8 See First Written Submission of the United States, paras. 238 -248.
World Trade Organization, 2006
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ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY
Curv-us, a. crooked, bent: as, recur' ve, cur'vated, a. curva'tion, n. cur'vature, n. curve', a. n. & v. curvilm'esir, a. cur'vity, n. mcur'v&te, v. incur va'tion, n. incur'vity, n . recurve', v. recourse' fill, a. recur', v. recwrVence, n. recur'rency, n. recur'rent, ...
JOHN OSWALD, 1868

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RECUR»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term recur is used in the context of the following news items.
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'The Originals': 'The Pacific' and 'Pretty Little Liars' Vets to Recur
Andrew Lees (The Pacific, Your Family or Mine) and Rebecca Breeds (Pretty Little Liars, We Are Men) have joined The CW drama in a recurring capacity, The ... «Hollywood Reporter, Jul 15»
2
Ed Sheeran to Recur on Kurt Sutter's 'The Bastard Executioner …
Ed Sheeran to Recur on Kurt Sutter's 'The Bastard Executioner' (Exclusive). He'll play an ambitious and deadly protégé of a high-ranking church elder ... «Hollywood Reporter, Jul 15»
3
The 100 Adds Black Sails' Zach McGowan and Two More Actors to …
As first reported by The Wrap, Black Sails' Zach McGowan will recur in The 100 Season 3 as a new character named Roan, “a rogue Grounder warrior who will ... «TVOvermind, Jul 15»
4
Anaphylactic reaction in kids could recur hours later, study finds
A new study by Ontario researchers suggests about 15 per cent of children who have a severe allergic reaction that involves anaphylaxis can actually have a ... «CBC.ca, Jun 15»
5
You're the Worst Season 2: Collette Wolfe to Recur
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Cougar Town alum Collette Wolfe is set to recur on the upcoming second season of You're the Worst. She'll be playing ... «ScreenFad, Jun 15»
6
Parks and Recreation alum Retta to recur on Girlfriends' Guide to …
The Parks and Recreation vet has landed a recurring role on the second season of the Bravo dramedy that stars Lisa Edelstein as Abby, a newly single self-help ... «Entertainment Weekly, Jun 15»
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'Empire' Season 2: Adam Rodriguez to Recur — and Woo Cookie?
Adam Rodriguez (The Night Shift, CSI: Miami) has joined Season 2 of Empire in a recurring role, and from the sounds of it, his character may be mixing up a ... «Yahoo News, Jun 15»
8
Bradley Cooper to Recur on Upcoming CBS 'Limitless' Series
According to Deadline, the 40-year-old movie star will have a recurring role on the upcoming TV show adaptation of his movie Limitless, which he is also ... «Just Jared, May 15»
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Most LA residents believe riots unlikely to recur, poll finds
To Rodney King's now-famous question, "Can we all get along?" Los Angeles residents increasingly answer something like: "Probably. Sort of." According to ... «Los Angeles Times, May 15»
10
Breast cancer less likely to recur in women with history of …
Breastfeeding is associated with a 30% overall decreased risk of breast cancer recurrence among women who have previously had one subtype of the disease, ... «Medical News Today, Apr 15»

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