concur
/kənˈkəː
/- The opinion concurred in a judgment striking down New Jersey's partial birth abortion statute.
- The Grievance Committee and the two hearing panels apparently concurred in this opinion.
- Justice O'Connor delivered a separate opinion, in which she concurred in the outcome of the case, but not with the majority's reasoning.
Synonyms
- Senior Judge Williams concurred with most of the opinion.
- Eight of Mr. Daly's eleven colleagues concurred with his opinion.
- Mr Connolly concurred with the opinion of several taxi drivers that there are safety issues regarding drivers leaving the taxi to knock at the front door.
- The fact that multiple causes may have effectuated the loss does not negate any single cause; the fact that multiple acts concurred in infliction of injury does not nullify any single contributory act.
- Both actus reus and mens rea must concur at the same time!
Synonyms
Origin
Late Middle English (also in the senses 'collide' and 'act in combination'): from Latin concurrere 'run together, assemble in crowds', from con- 'together with' + currere 'to run'.
cursor from Middle English:
Nowadays we call the movable indicator on our computer screen the cursor. In medieval English a cursor was a running messenger: it is a borrowing of the Latin word for ‘a runner’, and comes from currere ‘to run’. From the late 16th century cursor became the term for a sliding part of a slide rule or other instrument, marked with a line for pinpointing the position on a scale that you want, the forerunner of the computing sense. Currere is the source of very many English words including course (Middle English) something you run along; concourse (Late Middle English) originally a crowd who had ‘run together’; current (Middle English) originally meaning ‘running, flowing’; discursive (late 16th century) running away from the point; excursion (late 16th century) running out to see things; intercourse (Late Middle English) originally an exchange running between people; and precursor (Late Middle English) one who goes before; as well as supplying the cur part of concur (Late Middle English); incur (Late Middle English); occur (Late Middle English) (from ob- ‘against’); and recur (Middle English).
Rhymes
- peri-peri
- peripetalous
- peripeteia
- peripety
- peripharyngeal
- peripherad
- peripheral
- peripheral edema
- peripheralisation
- peripheralise
- peripheralism
- peripheralist
- peripherality
- peripheralization
- peripheralize
- peripherally
- peripheral nerve
- peripheral nervous system
- in the middle of
- in the name of
- in the nature of
- in the nature of things
- in the neighbourhood of
- in the nick of time
- in the nip