different between arrival vs occurrence
arrival
English
Etymology
arrive +? -al
Pronunciation
- enPR: ?-r?v'?l, IPA(key): /???a?.v?l/
Noun
arrival (countable and uncountable, plural arrivals)
- The act of arriving (reaching a certain place).
- c. 1593, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act IV, Scene 5,[1]
- And wander we to see thy honest son,
- Who will of thy arrival be full joyous.
- 1776, Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, Volume 1, Book 1, Chapter 10, pp. 127-128,[2]
- the unavoidable irregularity in the arrivals of coal ships
- c. 1593, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act IV, Scene 5,[1]
- The fact of reaching a particular point in time.
- c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, Act V, Scene 2,[3]
- O gentlemen, the time of life is short!
- To spend that shortness basely were too long,
- If life did ride upon a dial’s point,
- Still ending at the arrival of an hour.
- 1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, London: Chapman and Hall, Volume 1, Chapter 17, p. 266,[4]
- I now fell into a regular routine of apprenticeship-life, which was varied […] by no more remarkable circumstance than the arrival of my birthday and my paying another visit to Miss Havisham.
- 2000, Zadie Smith, White Teeth, New York: Vintage, Chapter 15, p. 327,[5]
- It was a place […] where to count on the arrival of tomorrow was an indulgence, and every service in the house, from the milkman to the electricity, was paid for on a strictly daily basis so as not to spend money on utilities or goods that would be wasted should God turn up in all his holy vengeance the very next day.
- c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, Act V, Scene 2,[3]
- The fact of beginning to occur; the initial phase of something.
- Synonym: onset
- 1951, William Styron, Lie Down in Darkness, New York: Modern Library, Chapter 6, p. 306,[6]
- a raw scraping in the back of his throat, which announced the arrival of a bad cold
- 1995, Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, Part 11, p. 513,[7]
- Streetlamps started to flicker tentatively—yellow buds, intimating the arrival of the full glow.
- The attainment of an objective, especially as a result of effort.
- Synonyms: advent, introduction
- 1973, Jan Morris, Heaven’s Command, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980, Part 3, Chapter 21, p. 411,[8]
- All the admirals had grown up in sail, and many of them viewed the arrival of steam with undisguised dislike […]
- A person who has arrived; a thing that has arrived.
- Synonyms: arrivant, arriver
- 1823, Lord Byron, Don Juan, London: John Hunt, Canto 11, stanza 68, p. 137,[9]
- Saloon, room, hall o’erflow beyond their brink,
- And long the latest of arrivals halts,
- ’Midst royal dukes and dames condemned to climb,
- And gain an inch of staircase at a time.
- 1889, Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, New York: Charles L. Webster, Chapter 24, p. 306,[10]
- The abbot and his monks were assembled in the great hall, observing with childish wonder and faith the performances of a new magician, a fresh arrival.
- 1970, J. G. Farrell, Troubles, New York: Knopf, 1971, p. 72,[11]
- a raw apple […] that looked so fresh and shining that it might even have been an early arrival of the new season’s crop
- 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, New York: Bloomsbury, Chapter 14, p. 369,[12]
- […] the whole bar was a fierce collective roar, and he edged and smiled politely through it like a sober late arrival at a wild party.
Antonyms
- departure
- non-arrival, nonarrival
Derived terms
Translations
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occurrence
English
Etymology
From Middle French occurrence, from Medieval Latin occurrentia.
Morphologically occur +? -ence.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??k???n(t)s/, /??k????n(t)s/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??k??n(t)s/
- (General New Zealand) IPA(key): /??k???n(t)s/, /??k????n(t)s/
- In accents without the hurry-furry merger, /??/ is nevertheless occasionally heard through influence of occur.
Noun
occurrence (plural occurrences)
- An actual instance when a situation occurs; an event or happening.
- (grammar, semantics) The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that change in or over time.
- Antonym: state
- Hyponyms: accomplishment, achievement, activity
Usage notes
- This word is often misspelled occurence, occurrance or occurance.
Related terms
- recurrence
Translations
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?.ky.???s/
Noun
occurrence f (plural occurrences)
- occurrence
Derived terms
- en l'occurrence
Further reading
- “occurrence” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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