Tra từ happen - Từ điển WordNet v3.1

verb

1. come to pass (Freq. 149)
- What is happening?
- The meeting took place off without an incidence
- Nothing occurred that seemed important
• Syn:
hap, go on, pass off, occur, pass,
fall out, come about, take place
• Derivationally related forms:
hap (for: hap), happening
• Hyponyms:
break, recrudesce, develop, arise, come up,
result, intervene, transpire, give, operate, supervene,
proceed, go, come, fall, anticipate, recur,
repeat, go off, come off, go over, come around, roll around,
materialize, materialise, befall, bechance, betide, concur,
coincide, backfire, backlash, recoil, chance, shine,
strike, turn out, synchronize, synchronise, contemporize, contemporise
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Something is ----ing PP
- It ----s that CLAUSE
2. happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance (Freq. 20)
- It happens that today is my birthday
- "These things befell" (Santayana)
• Syn:
befall, bechance
• Hypernyms:
hap, go on, pass off, occur, pass,
fall out, come about, take place
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
3. chance to be or do something, without intention or causation (Freq. 17)
- I happen to have just what you need!
• Hypernyms:
chance
• Verb Group:
befall, bechance
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE
- It ----s that CLAUSE
4. come into being;
become reality (Freq. 9)
- Her dream really materialized
• Syn:
materialize, materialise
• Ant:
dematerialise (for: materialise), dematerialize (for: materialize)
• Derivationally related forms:
materialisation (for: materialise), materialization (for: materialize)
• Hypernyms:
hap, go on, pass off, occur, pass,
fall out, come about, take place
• Hyponyms:
appear, come out
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
5. come upon, as if by accident;
meet with
- We find this idea in Plato
- I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here
- She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day
• Syn:
find, chance, bump, encounter
• Derivationally related forms:
encounter (for: encounter), find (for: find), finder (for: find)
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something