recurring
- occurring or appearing again.
Origin of recurring
recur
- to occur again, as an event, experience, etc.
- to return to the mind: The idea kept recurring.
- to come up again for consideration, as a question.
- to have recourse.
Origin of recur
Related Words for recurring
reappear, persist, reiterate, repeat, return, revert, recrudesce, iterateExamples from the Web for recurring
Contemporary Examples of recurring
Her chops landed her several TV gigs, including a recurring role as an NBC page on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.
In 2007, trans actress Candis Cayne became the first out trans actress to have a recurring role on a primetime network TV show.
Mindless bureaucratic cruelty is a recurring theme of observers of the modern state.
Almost every episode of the recurring site feature “Strong Bad Emails” offered users clickable keywords that unlocked something.
Its recurring phrase is now the deadening, argument-stifling “As a mom,” cited frequently by Jenny McCarthy and Sherri Shepherd.
Historical Examples of recurring
One might edge a wall-paper or fringe a robe with a recurring decimal.
Alarms and DiscursionsG. K. Chesterton
This recurring interest in women was a symptom of the 168 disease he had not yet shaken off.
Louisiana LouWilliam West Winter
But he seems to have supposed that the course of events was recurring rather than progressive.
TimaeusPlato
And so on, over and over, with the one recurring burden—what was the captain going to do?
Cy Whittaker's PlaceJoseph C. Lincoln
I can say that not an hour passes without my mind's recurring to my plan.
recur
- to happen again, esp at regular intervals
- (of a thought, idea, etc) to come back to the mind
- (of a problem, etc) to come up again
- maths (of a digit or group of digits) to be repeated an infinite number of times at the end of a decimal fraction
Word Origin for recur
Word Origin and History for recurring
1711, present participle adjective from recur.
recur
late 14c., "recover from illness or suffering;" mid-15c., "to return" (to a place), from Latin recurrere "to return, run back, hasten back," figuratively "revert, recur," from re- "back, again" (see re-) + currere "to run" (see current (adj.)). Originally of persons; application to thoughts, ideas, etc. is recorded from 1620s. Meaning "happen again" is from 1670s. Related: Recurred; recurring.
recur
(rĭ-kûr′)- To happen, come up, or show up again or repeatedly.
- To return to one's attention or memory.