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Definition: RECURRED |
RECURREDImperative & past participle1. Of Recur |
Date "RECURRED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I can assure you it has not recurred, Mandrake. (Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb; writing credit: Peter George; Stanley Kubrick) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | But I could no longer sit and look into the fire, and the pertinent words of a poet recurred to me with new force. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Two major themes about secondary damage recurred throughout the workshop. (references) | |
The symptoms must have persisted or recurred during six or more consecutive months of illness and must not have predated the fatigue. (references) | ||
These symptoms must have persisted or recurred during 6 or more consecutive months of illness and must not have predated the fatigue. (references) | ||
Economic History | Egypt | Such attacks have not recurred and the Egyptian Government has reiterated its interest in foreign investment and its opposition to any boycott of western investors. (references) |
Worker Rights | Nicaragua | The Ministry of Labor issued the company a warning and threatened heavy fines and possible closure if the problem recurred. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Franklin Pierce | 1853-1857 | My own position upon this subject was clear and unequivocal, upon the record of my words and my acts, and it is only recurred to at this time because silence might perhaps be misconstrued. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "RECURRED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 63.89% of the time. "RECURRED" is used about 36 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 63.89% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 36.11% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Total | 100.00% | 36 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
recurred | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "RECURRED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 复发 (recur, Recurring, relapse, Relapsed, relapsing). (various references) | ||||||||||
Finnish | tauti uusiutui (disease recurred, the patient had a relapse). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | reparut, reparus, reparurent, reparue, reparu. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | wiederkehrte. (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 재발하" (recurrent). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ecurredray возвращаться (come back, cycle back, drive back, go back, recur, rejoin, retrace, revert back). (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"RECURRED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: reccared, reccured, reccurred, recore, recorked, recreed, recurder, recurled, recurve, reocurred, Trecarrel. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "RECURRED" (pronounced rēker"d) |
| 3 | -k er" d | concurred, curd, incurred, occurred. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-r-r-r-u" | |
-1 letter: reducer. | |
-2 letters: cruder, curred, reduce. | |
-3 letters: ceder, cered, creed, crude, cured, curer, deuce, educe, erred, recur, ruder. | |
-4 letters: cede, cere, crud, cued, curd, cure, curr, deer, dere, dree, duce, dure, durr, ecru, rede, reed, rude, rued, ruer. | |
-5 letters: cee, cud, cue, cur, dee, due, ecu, ere, err, rec, red, ree, rue, urd. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-r-r-r-u" | |
+2 letters: reincurred, reoccurred, reproducer. | |
+3 letters: reproducers, resurrected. | |
+4 letters: counterorder, restructured, undercurrent. | |
+5 letters: counterorders, hyperproducer, prestructured, undercarriage, undercurrents. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 45 43 55 52 52 45 44 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . -.-. ..- .-. .-. . -.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01000101 01000011 01010101 01010010 01010010 01000101 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R E C U R R E D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0045 0043 0055 0052 0052 0045 0044 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5239375552523938 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Quotations: Fiction 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Quotations: Speeches 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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