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Exist vs Happen - What's the difference?

exist | happen |

As a verb exist

is to be; have existence; have being or reality.

As a noun happen is

morsel.

exist

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • to be; have existence; have being or reality
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  • Various relationships may exist between character and glyph:
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  • , regardless of whether those characters also existed in other character encoding standards.
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  • , which will be treated either as an update of the existing character encoding or as a completely new character encoding.

    Synonyms

    * be

    Derived terms

    * existence * existent * existential * existentialist * existentialism * existentially

    Anagrams

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    happen

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To occur or take place.
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  • , volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around.}}
  • To occur unexpectedly, by chance or with a low probability.
  • To encounter by chance.
  • * 1860 , , The Marble Faun , ch. 30:
  • Unexpectedly, in a nook close by the farmhouse, he happened upon a spot where the vintage had actually commenced.

    Usage notes

    * This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . See

    Derived terms

    * as it happens * happen along * happener * happeningly * it so happens

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (obsolete or dialect) maybe, perhaps.
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