| be going to |
used as an auxiliary verb to express a plan or intention to carry out some action, or to express a prediction of what seems likely to occur based on certain evidence. |
| bet |
to agree to give up (usu. money) to another person if one's prediction of some future result does not occur. [1/7 definitions] |
| bring |
to cause to occur or change by way of persuasion, deliberate force, or natural consequences. [1/3 definitions] |
| chain of events |
a series of related events that occur in a sequence after some particular triggering event. |
| coincide |
to be in the same place or occur at the same time. [1/2 definitions] |
| collocation |
in linguistics, the tendency of certain words to occur together in speech or writing with more frequency than chance would predict, or the particular ways that words tend to combine with each other within a particular language. [1/2 definitions] |
| come |
to begin to occur or exist, esp. through some evolving process. [1/14 definitions] |
| come off |
(informal) of an event or project, to occur as intended, or to be successfully launched or accomplished. [1/6 definitions] |
| come up |
to arise, occur, or appear. [1/6 definitions] |
| co-occur |
combined form of occur. |
| countdown |
the act or procedure of counting in reverse in preparation for some event, such as the firing of a rocket, to occur at "zero". [1/2 definitions] |
| crop up |
to appear or occur unexpectedly. |
| cycle |
the time interval required for such a sequence to occur; periodicity. [1/7 definitions] |
| dawn |
to occur to someone. [1/5 definitions] |
| deathtrap |
a place or situation in which death could readily occur, such as an unsafe building. |
| diachronic |
of or pertaining to changes that occur over time, as in languages. (Cf. synchronic.) |
| dogwatch |
either of two two-hour watches aboard ship that occur between four and eight P.M. |
| doomsday |
the day on which the Last Judgment is supposed to occur, at the end of the world. [1/2 definitions] |
| dream |
a series of images or visions that accompany sleep, or that occur during waking reverie. [1/13 definitions] |
| El Niņo |
an unusually warm Pacific Ocean current that develops near the International Date Line in the center of the ocean and flows east toward Peru and then south along the coast of South America. El Niņo events, which occur every two to seven years approximately, are associated with various negative impacts including damage to the livelihoods of those dependent on fishing and disturbance to regional and global weather patterns, which in turn can increase the incidence of disease and the frequency of destructive weather events. |
| ensue |
to occur just after another event. [2 definitions] |