Concur
[kən'kɜː] or [kən'kɝ]
Definition
(v. i.) To run together; to meet.
(v. i.) To meet in the same point; to combine or conjoin; to contribute or help toward a common object or effect.
(v. i.) To unite or agree (in action or opinion); to join; to act jointly; to agree; to coincide; to correspond.
(v. i.) To assent; to consent.
Checker: Sophia
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. [1]. Be conjoined, be combined.[2]. Agree, coincide, harmonize.[3]. Co-operate, help, combine, conspire, contribute jointly.
Editor: Melinda
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Approve, acquiesce, assent, coincide, meet, converge, concentrate, agree
ANT:Diverge, radiate, disagree, dissent, part, differ
Editor: Quentin
Definition
v.i. to run together: to meet in one point: to coincide: to act together: to agree: to assent to:—pr.p. concur′ring; pa.p. concurred′.—ns. Concur′rence the meeting of lines: union: joint action: assent; Concur′rency.—adj. Concur′rent of lines meeting in the same point: coming acting or existing together: united: accompanying.—n. one that concurs: a competitor: one who accompanies a sheriff's officer as witness.—adv. Concur′rently.—adj. Concur′ring agreeing.
Typed by Hector
Examples
- What reason, it may be asked, is there for supposing in these cases that two individuals ever concur in reproduction? Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Apart from that, what Uriah says I quite concur in! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The two impulses concur with each other, and render the whole transition more smooth and easy. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- This is the manner, in which past experiments concur, when they are transfered to any future event. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- What he says, I quite concur in. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- All these principles may concur in producing the present phaenomenon. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- In the four trades above mentioned, both those circumstances concur. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- For New York, to Mrs. Archer's mind, never changed without changing for the worse; and in this view Miss Sophy Jackson heartily concurred. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- They concurred in the view held by all the most prominent workers in this subject, namely, that radioactivity is an atomic phenomenon. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- All the ladies concurred in this opinion; so Mr. Raddle was pushed out of the room, and requested to give himself an airing in the back yard. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The two physicians, for a wonder, turned out to be unanimous, or rather, though of different minds, they concurred in action. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Thomson, and concurred in by the other eminent judges from America, Germany, France, Austria and Switzerland. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Afterwards a sentiment of morals concurs with interest, and becomes a new obligation upon mankind. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
Typist: Robbie