Meaning of HAP
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- [n] an accidental happening; "he recorded all the little haps and mishaps of his life"
- [v] come to pass; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important"
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| | Synonyms: | | come about, go on, happen, occur, pass, pass off, take place |
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| | See Also: | | accident, anticipate, arise, bechance, befall, betide, break, chance, chance event, coincide, come, come around, come off, come up, concur, contemporise, contemporize, develop, fall, fortuity, give, go, go off, go over, materialise, materialize, operate, proceed, recrudesce, recur, repeat, roll around, shine, strike, supervene, synchronise, synchronize, transpire, turn out | |
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\Hap\, v. t. [OE. happen.]
To clothe; to wrap.
The surgeon happed her up carefully. --Dr. J.
Brown.
\Hap\, n. [Cf. {Hap} to clothe.]
A cloak or plaid. [O. Eng. & Scot.]
\Hap\, n. [Icel. happ unexpected good luck. [root]39.]
That which happens or comes suddenly or unexpectedly; also,
the manner of occurrence or taking place; chance; fortune;
accident; casual event; fate; luck; lot. --Chaucer.
Whether art it was or heedless hap. --Spenser.
Cursed be good haps, and cursed be they that build
Their hopes on haps. --Sir P.
Sidney.
Loving goes by haps: Some Cupid kills with arrows, some
with traps. --Shak.
\Hap\, v. i. [OE. happen. See {Hap} chance, and cf.
{Happen}.]
To happen; to befall; to chance. --Chaucer.
Sends word of all that haps in Tyre. --Shak.
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| | Related Terms: | | accident, accidentality, actuarial calculation, adventitiousness, adventure, be found, be met with, be realized, bechance, befall, betide, break, bundle up, casualness, casualty, chance, chance hit, circumstance, come, come about, come along, come down, come off, come to pass, come true, contingency, contingent, destiny, develop, episode, event, eventuate, experience, fact, fall, fate, fluke, flukiness, fortuitousness, fortuity, fortune, freak accident, gamble, go, go off, good fortune, good luck, happen, happen along, happen by chance, happening, happenstance, happy chance, hazard, heedless hap, how they fall, incident, indeterminacy, indeterminateness, law of averages, long odds, long shot, lot, luck, lucky shot, matter of fact, moira, muffle, occasion, occur, occurrence, opportunity, particular, pass, pass off, phenomenon, pop up, portion, principle of indeterminacy, probability, problematicness, random sample, reality, risk, run of luck, serendipity, statistical probability, take place, the breaks, theory of probability, transpire, turn of events, turn up, uncertainty, uncertainty principle, whatever comes, wrap up |
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