What's the difference between beget and happen?

Beget


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To procreate, as a father or sire; to generate; -- commonly said of the father.
  • (v. t.) To get (with child.)
  • (v. t.) To produce as an effect; to cause to exist.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Another example is the death in 1817 of Princess Charlotte, in childbirth, which led to the scramble of George III's aging sons to marry and beget an heir to the throne.
  • (2) I believe in due process of law; I know violence begets violence.
  • (3) The temporal progression of CHF from a mild to a severe state need not be a sign of progressive pathology of heart muscle, but rather a result of feedback circuits where failure begets failure and leads to progressive cardiac enlargement, progressive hypervolemia, and peripheral edema.
  • (4) Alexander said she thinks piracy is necessary because of country content restrictions, and that while the wealth piracy begets for the pirates isn’t right, the freedom of access to content is.
  • (5) As long as universities favour privately educated applicants, money will beget money.
  • (6) This reluctance flows from not only from our humanitarian ideals but from our experience that violence usually begets violence.
  • (7) It is proposed that this test should be made generally available in Southeast Asia and Southern China, in order to identify couples who are at risk of begetting fetuses afflicted with homozygous alpha-thalassemia.
  • (8) Knowledge begets increased output and liberates resources for further investment.
  • (9) Solomon Mercado (@M3rcMyWords) But yeah Max Kellerman better never plan a visit to the Philippines.... May 3, 2015 Leizl de los Reyes (@leizlgd) @MaxKellerman_ Respect begets respect.
  • (10) This begets responsibility – and no country is more aware of this than the Federal Republic.
  • (11) However, the only alternative is the terrible dystopia unfolding before our eyes as the EU disintegrates; David Cameron celebrates the potential exclusion of some eastern Europeans from social security benefits; ambition is renationalised; xenophobia surges; and newer and taller fences are built begetting insecurity in the name of … security.
  • (12) The middle class, of course: in the feedback loop of the bourgeoisie, their behaviour (breastfeeding, long maternity leave and well-planned paternity leave) begets better bonding, leads them to care more, which leads to even better behaviour.
  • (13) A male and female left to their own devices for one year – the average lifespan of a city rat – can beget 15,000 descendants.
  • (14) And God, the all-powerful creator, capable of moving mountains and of begetting a universe with all the laws of physics, couldn't find a better way to lift the burden of sin than a blood sacrifice.
  • (15) Social media, including Facebook, has been shown to have contagious effects on mood and behaviour, with negative comments begetting negative feelings and further comments even if they are not directed towards the reader.
  • (16) It was concluded that involuntary sterilization of mentally incompetent persons can be deemed legally acceptable if the person is incapable of valid consent; has a big possibility of begetting genetically defective offspring; and is permanently incapable of being a competent parent.
  • (17) The Hebrew word for "know" (yada') means both to know and to beget.
  • (18) The experience of Iraq and Afghanistan illustrates, although in different circumstances, how the overthrow of a tyrant can beget a long-running insurgency or civil war.
  • (19) As well as huge insecurity, disorganised capitalism begets disorganised politics: as Labour and the Tories find their respective support bases pushed down, so a Great Beyond opens, where seemingly anything can happen, from the shortlived rise of the BNP to the even briefer high summer of Cleggmania .
  • (20) They knew that violence mostly escalates and begets more violence.

Happen


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To come by chance; to come without previous expectation; to fall out.
  • (v. i.) To take place; to occur.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He is also the foremost theorist of the Tijuana-San Diego border in terms of what happens when the urban culture of the developing world collides with that of the developed world.
  • (2) Would people feel differently about it if, for instance, it happened on Boxing Day or Christmas Eve?
  • (3) "At the same time, however, we cannot allow one man's untrue version of what happened to stand unchallenged," he said.
  • (4) I think part of it is you can either go places where that's bound to happen.
  • (5) These results do not support the view that in the rat pheromones from adult males enhance puberty in females, contrary to what is known to happen in the mouse.
  • (6) The only way we can change it, is if we get people to look in and understand what is happening.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Dean, Clare and their baby son.
  • (7) That is what needs to happen for this company, which started out as a rebellious presence in the business, determined to get credit for its creative visionaries.
  • (8) "David Cameron has lost control of what's happening in the NHS.
  • (9) The small print revealed that Osborne claimed a fall in borrowing largely by factoring in the proceeds of a 4G telecomms auction that has not yet happened.
  • (10) She was clearly elected on a pledge not to cut school funding and that’s exactly what is happening,” Corbyn said.
  • (11) Urban hives boom could be 'bad for bees' What happened: Two professors from a University of Sussex laboratory are urging wannabe-urban beekeepers to consider planting more flowers instead of taking up the increasingly popular hobby.
  • (12) It happens to anyone and everyone and this has been an 11-year battle.” Emergency services were called to the oval about 6.30pm to treat Luke for head injuries, but were unable to revive him.
  • (13) One might expect that a similar news spike and rebounding of support for stricter gun control can happen, given President Obama's new push.
  • (14) At present, fewer than 20% do so, with more than half of all deaths happening in hospital and the rest in hospices or care homes.
  • (15) It mostly happens to strong men whose biceps muscle are contracted and overstretched unexpectedly.
  • (16) However, I’m behaving as if it’s all going to happen as planned.” It has certainly been a long road to production.
  • (17) There is no evidence to support the move to seven-day services, there is no evidence of what is going to happen if we divert our resources away from the week to weekends.
  • (18) Some factors of resistance (such as side benefits) happen in reactive and neurotic depressions and are independent of the pharmacological action.
  • (19) It is important for this commission to get to the truth of what happened and it's able to carry on without interference and disruption.
  • (20) And would all Labour cabinet ministers be as willing to work closely with Lib Dem ministers of state, as happens now, though with some spiky exceptions?