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HAP

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An accidental happening

Example:

he recorded all the little haps and mishaps of his life

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("hap" is a kind of...):

accident; chance event; fortuity; stroke (anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause)

Derivation:

hap (come to pass)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Come to pass

Example:

Nothing occurred that seemed important

Synonyms:

come about; fall out; go on; hap; happen; occur; pass; pass off; take place

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hap"):

contemporise; contemporize; synchronise; synchronize (happen at the same time)

turn out (prove to be in the result or end)

fall; shine; strike (touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly)

break (happen or take place)

chance (be the case by chance)

backfire; backlash; recoil (come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect)

coincide; concur (happen simultaneously)

bechance; befall; betide (become of; happen to)

bechance; befall; happen (happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance)

happen; materialise; materialize (come into being; become reality)

come around; roll around (happen regularly)

come off; go off; go over (happen in a particular manner)

recur; repeat (happen or occur again)

develop (be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest)

anticipate (be a forerunner of or occur earlier than)

fall (occur at a specified time or place)

come (come to pass; arrive, as in due course)

go; proceed (follow a certain course)

supervene (take place as an additional or unexpected development)

give (occur)

transpire (come about, happen, or occur)

intervene (occur between other event or between certain points of time)

result (come about or follow as a consequence)

arise; come up (result or issue)

break; develop; recrudesce (happen)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
It ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

hap (an accidental happening)

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