recur

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil Of an event, situation, etc.: to appear or happen again, especially repeatedly.

   “The theme of the prodigal son recurs later in the third act.”

2. fiil Of a disease or symptom: to happen again, especially repeatedly or after a remission or an apparent recovery.

   “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.”

3. fiil Of a memory, thought, etc.: to come to the mind again.

   “[…] 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.”

4. fiil To speak, think, or write about something again; to go back or return to a memory, a subject, etc.

   “But firſt I ſhall recurre, and give a touch upon the nature of Gravity.”

5. fiil 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.

   “[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.”

6. fiil Synonym of recurse (“to execute a procedure recursively”).
7. fiil Often in the form recurring following a number: of a numeral or group of numerals in a decimal fraction: to repeat indefinitely.

   “One-third can be written in decimal form as 0.3333 …, or point three-recurring.”

8. fiil Followed by into or to: to go to a place again; to return.

   “[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.”

9. fiil Followed by into or to: To go back to doing an activity, or to using a thing; to return.

   “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.”

10. fiil Followed by to: to go to a place; to resort.

    “[T]he City grevv very populous, many recurring thither from all parts of Attica, for liberty and ſecurity, […]”

11. fiil Followed by from: to move or run back from something; to recede, to withdraw.

    “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.”