HAP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hap mean? 

• HAP (noun)
  The noun HAP has 1 sense:

1. an accidental happening

  Familiarity information: HAP used as a noun is very rare.

• HAP (verb)
  The verb HAP has 1 sense:

1. come to pass

  Familiarity information: HAP used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An accidental happening

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Context example:

he recorded all the little haps and mishaps of his life

Hypernyms ("hap" is a kind of...):

accident; chance event; fortuity; stroke (anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause)

Derivation:

hap (come to pass)

• HAP (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they hap    ... he / she / it haps   
Past simple: happed   
Past participle: happed   
-ing form: happing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Come to pass

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

come about; fall out; go on; hap; happen; occur; pass; pass off; take place

Context example:

Nothing occurred that seemed important

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hap"):

recur; repeat (happen or occur again)

contemporise; contemporize; synchronise; synchronize (happen at the same time)

turn out (prove to be in the result or end)

fall; shine; strike (touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly)

break (happen or take place)

chance (be the case by chance)

backfire; backlash; recoil (come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect)

coincide; concur (happen simultaneously)

bechance; befall; betide (become of; happen to)

bechance; befall; happen (happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance)

happen; materialise; materialize (come into being; become reality)

come around; roll around (happen regularly)

come off; go off; go over (happen in a particular manner)

break; develop; recrudesce (happen)

develop (be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest)

anticipate (be a forerunner of or occur earlier than)

fall (occur at a specified time or place)

come (come to pass; arrive, as in due course)

go; proceed (follow a certain course)

supervene (take place as an additional or unexpected development)

give (occur)

transpire (come about, happen, or occur)

intervene (occur between other event or between certain points of time)

result (come about or follow as a consequence)

arise; come up (result or issue)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
It ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

hap (an accidental happening)

 Context examples 

When I came back Mr. Swales went on:—Who brought him home, I wonder, to hap him here?

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“No, no, Dan'l,” she returned, “I shan't be that. Doen't you mind me. I shall have enough to do to keep a Beein for you” (Mrs. Gummidge meant a home), again you come back—to keep a Beein here for any that may hap to come back, Dan'l.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

To him Aylward narrated the good hap which had befallen them; but the smith, when his eyes lit upon the relics, leaned up against his anvil and laughed, with his hand to his side, until the tears hopped down his sooty cheeks.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He went on: "And you consate that all these steans be aboon folk that be happed here, snod an' snog?" I assented again.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)