Word Meanings - RECUR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To come back; to return again or repeatedly; to come again to mind. When any word has been used to signify an idea, the old idea will recur in the mind when the word is heard. I. Watts. 2. To occur at a stated interval, or according to some

Additional info about word: RECUR

1. To come back; to return again or repeatedly; to come again to mind. When any word has been used to signify an idea, the old idea will recur in the mind when the word is heard. I. Watts. 2. To occur at a stated interval, or according to some regular rule; as, the fever will recur to-night. 3. To resort; to have recourse; to go for help. If, to avoid succession in eternal existence, they recur to the "punctum stans" of the schools, they will thereby very little help us to a more positive idea of infinite duration. Locke. Recurring decimal , a circulating decimal. See under Decimal. -- Recurring series , an algebraic series in which the coefficients of the several terms can be expressed by means of certain preceding coefficients and constants in one uniform manner.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RECUR)

• Return
• Recur
• revert
• reappear
• come back
• repay
• requite
• recompense
• retaliate
• render
• restore
• yield
• produce
• give back
• Revert
• refer
• accrue
• reaccrue
• recur

Related words: (words related to RECUR)

• RECUR
  1. To come back; to return again or repeatedly; to come again to mind. When any word has been used to signify an idea, the old idea will recur in the mind when the word is heard. I. Watts. 2. To occur at a stated interval, or according to some
• REPAYMENT
  1. The act of repaying; reimbursement. Jer. Taylor. 2. The money or other thing repaid.
• RETALIATE
  To return like for like; specifically, to return evil for evil; as, to retaliate upon an enemy.
• REFER
  1. To carry or send back. Chaucer. 2. Hence: To send or direct away; to send or direct elsewhere, as for treatment, aid, infirmation, decision, etc.; to make over, or pass over, to another; as, to refer a student to an author; to refer a beggar
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• REFERENTIAL
  Containing a reference; pointing to something out of itself; as, notes for referential use. -- Ref`er*en"tial*ly, adv.
• YIELDABLE
  Disposed to yield or comply. -- Yield"a*ble*ness, n. Bp. Hall.
• RECURVE
  To curve in an opposite or unusual direction; to bend back or down.
• RETURNLESS
  Admitting no return. Chapman.
• YIELDANCE
  1. The act of producing; yield; as, the yieldance of the earth. Bp. Hall. 2. The act of yielding; concession. South.
• ACCRUE
  Etym: 1. To increase; to augment. And though power failed, her courage did accrue. Spenser. 2. To come to by way of increase; to arise or spring as a growth or result; to be added as increase, profit, or damage, especially as the produce of money
• RECOMPENSER
  One who recompenses. A thankful recompenser of the benefits received. Foxe.
• REAPPEARANCE
  A second or new appearance; the act or state of appearing again.
• YIELDING
  Inclined to give way, or comply; flexible; compliant; accommodating; as, a yielding temper. Yielding and paying , the initial words of that clause in leases in which the rent to be paid by the lessee is mentioned and reserved. Burrill. Syn. --
• RECURVATE
  Recurved.
• REVERTED
  Turned back; reversed. Specifically: Bent or curved twice, in opposite directions, or in the form of an S.
• RESTORE
  Restoration. Spenser.
• RECURVITY
  Recurvation.
• RECOMPENSEMENT
  Recompense; requital. Fabyan.
• REVERTENT
  A remedy which restores the natural order of the inverted irritative motions in the animal system. E. Darwin.
• REVERT
  To change back. See Revert, v. i. To revert a series , to treat a series, as y = a + bx + cx2 + etc., where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x, so as to find therefrom the second variable x, expressed in a series arranged
• YIELD
  pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be
• PREFERMENT
  1. The act of choosing, or the state of being chosen; preference. Natural preferment of the one . . . before the other. Sir T. Browne. 2. The act of preferring, or advancing in dignity or office; the state of being advanced; promotion. Neither
• PRECURSE
  A forerunning. Shak.
• MISRENDER
  To render wrongly; to translate or recite wrongly. Boyle.
• RECOMPENSE
  recompensare, fr.L. pref. re- re- + compensare to compensate. See 1. To render an equivalent to, for service, loss, etc.; to requite; to remunerate; to compensate. He can not recompense me better. Shak. 2. To return an equivalent for;