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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
occurring en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /əˈkɝɪŋ/ (General-American)
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- /əˈkɜːɹɪŋ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Meanings
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(in-compounds, not-comparable) That occurs in a specified manner.
naturally occurring macromolecules
Deriveds
unoccurring · non-occurring
occurring en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /əˈkɝɪŋ/ (General-American)
- (US) audio
- /əˈkɜːɹɪŋ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Meanings
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An instance of something occurring; an event or happening.
While it was noted above that the interaffecting of the present by the occurrings and implyings of the past provides a means of generating a sense of a personal past through the accumulation of bodily-relevant occurrings and implyings, […]
2016, Janet Banfield, Geography Meets Gendlin:The perceived and known fact on which this discussion is based, is not the difference between the occurring and the non-occurring of an act (for non-occurring does not say impossibility), nor the difference between possibility and impossibility of the act (for the possibility cannot be perceived), but the difference between the occurring and the impossibility.
1976, J. R. T. M. Peters, God’s Created Speech: A Study in the Speculative Theology of the Muʿtazilî Qâḍîl-Quḍât Abû L-Ḥasan ʿAbd Al-Jabbâr Bn Aḥmad Al-Hamaḏânî, Leiden: E. J. Brill, →ISBN, page 197:
Forms
Deriveds
non-occurring
Synonyms
occurrence
occurring en · VERB
Pronunciation
- /əˈkɝɪŋ/ (General-American)
- (US) audio
- /əˈkɜːɹɪŋ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Meanings
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(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of occur
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(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of occurre (obsolete form of occur)