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recur /rɪˈkəː /verb (recurs, recurring, recurred) [no object]1Occur again periodically or repeatedly: when the symptoms recurred, the doctor diagnosed something different (as adjective recurring) a recurring theme...- In this article I would like to share with readers the themes that recur repeatedly in studies of successful organisations.
- Attacks tend to occur in clusters, and symptoms may recur after an apparent period of remission.
- As the problem recurs, the cycle repeats with expanded control or regulation.
Synonyms happen again, reoccur, occur again, be repeated, repeat (itself); happen repeatedly, come and go; come back (again), return, come round (again); reappear, appear again, flare up rare recrudesce 1.1(Of a thought, image, or memory) come back to one’s mind: Oglethorpe’s words kept recurring to him...- And if many thought that Mitchell's remarks about Bruton were an attempt to position himself for a seemingly inevitable leadership contest at that time, the thought has recently recurred in many of those suspicious minds.
- The image recurs in my fantasies of that girl half-heartedly attempting to stop what was going to happen.
- I don't know what I was thinking writing that but it is an image which recurs in my head.
1.2 ( recur to) Go back to (something) in thought or speech: the book remained a favourite and she constantly recurred to it...- So much has been said and written about the long-continued epidemic of scarlet fever in Kendal that I recur to the subject with great reluctance; but it is inevitable.
- The microscopic study is highly facilitated by the possibility of preparing whole mounts of the fixed and stained transparent membrane without the necessity of recurring to the section method.
- These letters are familiar, occasionally intimate, but on the whole quotidian, recurring to her real estate woes and his ne'er-do-well relations.
Derivativesrecurringly adverb ...- This summer Celtic have been linked with Shaka Hislop, Mark Bosnich and, recurringly, Alex Manninger.
- He dreamed recurringly that he was roaming over a landscape that was strange to him and yet he knew it to be his own territory.
- Behind the achievement was a growing sentiment, expressed recurringly in the Group of 7 summit, that the rules-based trade regime faced the process of collapse.
OriginMiddle English (in the sense 'return to'): from Latin recurrere, from re- 'again, back' + currere 'run'. cursor from Middle English: Nowadays we call the movable indicator on our computer screen the cursor. In medieval English a cursor was a running messenger: it is a borrowing of the Latin word for ‘a runner’, and comes from currere ‘to run’. From the late 16th century cursor became the term for a sliding part of a slide rule or other instrument, marked with a line for pinpointing the position on a scale that you want, the forerunner of the computing sense. Currere is the source of very many English words including course (Middle English) something you run along; concourse (Late Middle English) originally a crowd who had ‘run together’; current (Middle English) originally meaning ‘running, flowing’; discursive (late 16th century) running away from the point; excursion (late 16th century) running out to see things; intercourse (Late Middle English) originally an exchange running between people; and precursor (Late Middle English) one who goes before; as well as supplying the cur part of concur (Late Middle English); incur (Late Middle English); occur (Late Middle English) (from ob- ‘against’); and recur (Middle English).
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