recur
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin recurrō (“to hurry or run back; to return, revert”), from re- (prefix meaning ‘back, backwards’) + currō (“to hasten, hurry; to move, travel; to run”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run”)).
cognates
* Anglo-Norman recurre, recorre (“to have recourse to”)
* Catalan recórrer
* Italian ricorrer
* Old French recourir (Middle French recourir; modern French recourir (“to have recourse to; to run again; to run back”))
* Old Occitan recorre
* Portuguese recorrer
* Spanish recorrer
Inflected forms:
form: recurs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: recurring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: recurred
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: recurred
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: recur
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: recur
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: recurred
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: recur
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: recurrest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: recurred
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: recurredst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: recurs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: recurreth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: recurred
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: recur
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: recurred
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: recur
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: recurred
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: recur
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: recurring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: recurred
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: Of an event, situation, etc.: to appear or happen again, especially repeatedly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The theme of the prodigal son recurs later in the third act.
For it is manifeſt, that all the Arguments that are brought Chap. 2, Sect. 3. vvill recur vvith full force in this place.
But ſtill, the Queſtion recurs, vvhether Man be Free?
All this pressed on his mind; yet the original statement recurred with the same irresistible force.
But the knot of causes recurreth in which I am twined. It will create me again! I myself belong unto the causes of eternal recurrence.
Finally the question recurred, but flung now like a challenging gauntlet in the lists: Why not order today?
Would she ever wake out of her dark, warm coma? She shuddered, and hoped not. Mrs Tuke would say atavism. Atavism! The word recurred curiously.
Indeed, in our poetry and folk songs intoxication occupies a recurring role as a facilitator of love and spiritual enlightenment. What? Is it not a sin? Yes, it certainly is—and so, for that matter, is coveting thy neighbor's wife. I see you smile; we understand one another, then.
gloss: Of an event, situation, etc.: to appear or happen again, especially repeatedly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The bullet had grazed the optic nerve. […] The oculist had warned him that the trouble might recur, that he ought to have remained under observation. Well, it had recurred about four months ago.
gloss: Of a memory, thought, etc.: to come to the mind again.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The Saturday at night before he ſuffered, he dream'd his chaine vvas brought to the Counter gate, that the next day being Sunday, he ſhould be had to Nevvgate and burned at Smithfield the Munday enſuing, vvhich after many frightfull avvakings, ſtill recurring to his troubled fancy, he aroſe, and communicating vvhat he had dreamed to his Chamber-fellovv, fell to his old exerciſe of reading and praying.
[…] Men that are of a talkative and melancholy temper see any kind of visions. And this, especially because they have so deep a resentment [i.e., impression] of the most affecting objects, whose images therefore recur to the fancy when they are asleep, in most distinct and lively figures.
[T]he Idea I have once had vvill be unchangeably the ſame as long as it recurs the ſame in my Memory; but vvhen another different from that comes into my Mind, it vvill not be that.
Zan[ga]. Carry you Goodneſs then to ſuch Extreme, / So blinded to the Faults of him you love, / That you perceive not he is jealous? / Leon[ora]. Heav'ns! / And yet a Thouſand Things recur that ſvvear it.
Though Jones had never ſeen Mrs. Fitzpatrick, yet he had heard that a Couſin of Sophia vvas married to a Gentleman of that Name. This, hovvever, in the present Tumult of his Mind, never once recurred to his Memory: […]
[H]e may therefore be juſtly numbered among the benefactors of mankind, vvho contracts the great rules of life into ſhort ſentences, vvhich may be eaſily impreſſed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to recur habitually to the mind, vvhenever occaſion calls them into uſe.
[E]very idea of the impropriety of her being found there, recurring to her mind, the few minutes in which they continued together, were some of the most uncomfortable of her life.
When thou, departed vision! dear and bright, / Recurrest to mine eyes—and with old lays, / Such as thou sangs't me in our innocent days, / Bringest, in vivid power, the moments past; […]
Till this moment, I had been so intent on watching them, […] I had half-forgotten my own wretched position: now it recurred to me.
But ill for him who, bettering not with time, / Corrupts the strength of heaven-descended Will, / And ever weaker grows thro' acted crime, / or seeming-genial venial fault, / Recurring and suggesting still!
The song of the Jubjub recurred to their minds, / And cemented their friendship for ever!
The position struck me as hopeless, and poor Brierly's saying recurred to me, 'Let him creep twenty feet underground and stay there.'
Just after Edward [Brittain]'s return to France, I had the first of those dreams which were to recur, in slightly different variations, at frequent intervals for nearly ten years.
An image from the dream recurred to him. […] Almost all had been undistorted memories of his childhood, memories never once recalled before.
gloss: To speak, think, or write about something again; to go back or return to a memory, a subject, etc.
pos: verb
tags: dated
intransitive
examples: But firſt I ſhall recurre, and give a touch upon the nature of Gravity.
But before vve proceed to vvhat paſſed on his Arrival in the Kitchin, it vvill be neceſſary to recur to vvhat had there happened ſince Partridge had firſt left it on his Maſter's Summons.
Again am I recurring to a ſubject I vviſh to quit. But ſince I cannot, I vvill give my pen its courſe—Pen, take thy courſe.
He was in high spirits; as ready to talk and laugh as ever, and seemed delighted to speak of his former visit, and recur to old stories: and he was not without agitation.
I returned home, not disappointed, for I have said that I had long considered those authors useless whom the professor reprobated; but I returned, not at all the more inclined to recur to these studies in any shape.
I'm sorry to say any ill of your friends, and the thing was a long time ago; besides which there was nothing to make me recur to it.
And Mrs Durrani? Lata said the two words aloud, appraising them. What of her? And of Kabir's brother and the sister he had 'until last year'? Over the last few days her mind had time and again recurred to these elusive beings and those few elusive comments.
gloss: Followed by to, or (Scotland, obsolete) on or upon: to have recourse to someone or something for assistance, support, etc.; to appeal, to resort, to turn to.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
intransitive
examples: [I]f his Grace vvere minded, or vvould intend to do a thing inique or injuſt, there vvere no need to recurr unto the Pope's Holineſe for doing thereof.
And surely here I admire the goodnes of God towards our Nation, that he would Saint Austin [Augustine of Hippo] should enquire such small matters of S. Gregory, and that his questions should remaine to our dayes, both to shew vs by our first Apostle what account we should make of the resolution of the Sea Apostolick, and […] in all difficulties recur to her, […]
Others have been ſo blind in deducing the originall of things, or delivering their ovvne beginnings, that vvhen it hath fallen into controverſie they have not recurred unto Chronologie or the records of time, but betaken themſelves unto probabilities, and the conjecturalities of Philoſophy.
If to avoid Succeſſion in eternal Exiſtence, they recur to the Punctum Stans [standing point] of the Schools, I ſuppoſe they vvill thereby very little mend the matter, or help us to a more clear and poſitive Idea of infinite Duration, there being nothing more inconceivable to me, than Duration vvithout Succeſſion.
The barbarian […] acts from affections unacquainted vvith forms; and vvhen provoked, or vvhen engaged in diſputes, he recurs to the ſvvord, as the ultimate means of deciſion, in all queſtions of right.
RECOURSE; is the right competent to an assignee or disponee, under the warrandice of the transaction, to recur on the vendor or cedent for relief, in case of eviction or of defects inferring warrandice.
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.
[He] had found the place, even in company, such a refuge from the obsession of his problem that, with renewed pressure from that source, he had not unnaturally recurred to a remedy that seemed so, for the moment, to meet his case.
gloss: Synonym of recurse (“to execute a procedure recursively”).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: Often in the form recurring following a number: of a numeral or group of numerals in a decimal fraction: to repeat indefinitely.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: One-third can be written in decimal form as 0.3333 …, or point three-recurring.
CIRCULATING Decimals, or Recurring Decimals, are those that consist of a repetition of a small number of digits, as 646464, &c. 4127127127, &c.; in fact, every decimal that is not finite, is a circulating decimal, or is such, that if continued far enough, the same figures will again recur; but it is only those, of which the periods of circulation consist of a few figures, that receive generally the definition of circulating decimals.
gloss: Followed by into or to: to go to a place again; to return.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: [H]er conſtancy beganne to ſtagger, and her honeſty had enough to doe, recurring to her eyes to containe them, leſt they ſhould giue any demonſtration of the amorous compaſsion vvhich Lotharios vvordes and teares had ſtirred in her breaſt.
Cycle of the Sun is the revolution of 28 years, Cycle of the Moon the revolution of 19 years, in which time both of their motions recur to the ſame point.
For as in the body natural the amputation and dock of one member forces the bloud and ſpirits that therein reſide vvhen fixed, to recur to the heart, and there to ſuccour it in the abſence of that part, ſo is the body politique, in this ſenſe Intentio ſupplere debet defectum [the intention must supply the deficiency], […]
[H]ovvever vve toil, or vvhereſoever vve vvander, our fatigued vviſhes ſtill recur to home for tranquillity, vve long to die in that ſpot vvhich gave us birth, and in that pleaſing expectation opiate every calamity.
gloss: Followed by into or to: To go back to doing an activity, or to using a thing; to return.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: I contrived for ſome time to carry on ſomething like a converſation vvith this vvoman, but vvas ſoon glad to put an end to it by recurring to my bottle.
After throwing out this pregnant hint, Mr Poyser recurred to his pipe and his silence, looking at Hetty to see if she did not give some sign of having renounced her ill-advised wish.
Mrs Farebrother recurred to her knitting with a dignified satisfaction in her neat little effort at oratory, […]
gloss: Followed by to: to go to a place; to resort.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
rare
examples: [T]he City grevv very populous, many recurring thither from all parts of Attica, for liberty and ſecurity, […]
gloss: Followed by from: to move or run back from something; to recede, to withdraw.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
rare
examples: If half the latitude of the firſt vvave be an aliquant part of the ſtring, after the motion has been propagated to the fartheſt extremity, there vvill be a nevv ſeries of leſs vvaves, recurring in a contrary direction.
Antonyms: digress
Derived words: curiously recurring template pattern
non-recurring
recurrable
recurred
recurrence
recurrent
recurrer
recurring
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: повтарям се
roman: povtarjam se
lang: Czech
word: opakovat se
lang: Czech
word: vracet se
lang: Czech
word: znovu se objevovat
lang: Dutch
word: recidiveren
lang: Esperanto
word: reokazi
lang: Finnish
word: toistua
lang: Finnish
word: uusiutua
lang: French
word: réapparaître
lang: French
word: resurvenir
lang: French
word: revenir
lang: Galician
word: repetir
lang: Georgian
word: ხელახლა ხდება
roman: xelaxla xdeba
lang: Greek
word: επαναλαμβάνομαι
roman: epanalamvánomai
lang: Hungarian
word: megismétlődik
lang: Hungarian
word: újból megtörténik
lang: Hungarian
word: újra megtörténik
lang: Irish
word: athfhill
lang: Irish
word: fill
lang: Japanese
word: ぶり返す
roman: burikaesu
lang: Japanese
word: 再発する
roman: saihatsu suru
lang: Manx
word: aahaghyr
lang: Māori
word: kakai
lang: Old English
word: aġēnġeċyrran
lang: Portuguese
word: reocorrer
lang: Spanish
word: repetirse
lang: Spanish
word: volver a acontecer
lang: Spanish
word: acaecer de nuevo
lang: Walloon
word: rissorvini
lang: Walloon
word: rivni