Word definition: event

Etimology


From Middle French event, from Latin ēventus (“an event, occurrence”), from ēveniō (“to happen, to fall out, to come out”), from ē (“out of, from”), short form of ex + veniō (“come”); related to venture, advent, convent, invent, convene, evene, etc.

noun


event (plural events)

An occurrence; something that happens.

A prearranged social activity (function, etc.)

One of several contests that combine to make up a competition.

An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases).

(figurative, uncommon, dated) A remarkable person.

(physics) A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate.

(computing) A possible action that the user can perform that is monitored by an application or the operating system (event listener). When an event occurs an event handler is called which performs a specific task.

(probability theory) A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample space.

(obsolete) An affair in hand; business; enterprise.

(medicine) An episode of severe health conditions.

Examples


the events of his early years

Experience in Australia indicates that after a devastating weather event, up to one-fifth of people suffer the debilitating effects of extreme stress, emotional injury, and despair.

I went to an event in San Francisco last week.

Where will the event be held?

hard beginnings have many times prosperous events […].

Of my ill boding Dream / Behold the dire Event.

dark doubts between the promise and event

In the event, he turned out to have what I needed anyway.

Synonym: sensation

Miss Burton, you are an event! Sleepy, old Lymston's going to love you! Bye-bye. Bye.

If X {\displaystyle X} is a random variable representing the toss of a six-sided die, then its sample space could be denoted as {1,2,3,4,5,6}. Examples of events could be: X = 1 {\displaystyle X=1} , X = 2 {\displaystyle X=2} , X ≥ 5 , X ≠ 4 , {\displaystyle X\geq 5,X\not =4,} and X ∈ { 1 , 3 , 5 } {\displaystyle X\in \{1,3,5\}} .

Leave we him to his events.

Related words


hyponyms

blessed event

credit event

current events

doomsday event

episodic events

K-T extinction event

media event

quick time event

risk event

sentinel event

social event

speciation event

related terms

event horizon

in the event

wise after the event

verb


event (third-person singular simple present events, present participle eventing, simple past and past participle evented)

(obsolete) To occur, take place.

Examples


[…] I will first rehearse you an English Historie acted and evented in my Countrey of England […]

Etimology


From French éventer.

verb


event (third-person singular simple present events, present participle eventing, simple past and past participle evented)

(obsolete, intransitive) To be emitted or breathed out; to evaporate.

(obsolete, transitive) To expose to the air, ventilate.

Examples


ô that thou sawst my heart, or didst behold

The place from whence that scalding sigh evented.

This is the reason why this water hath no such force when it is carried, as it hath at the spring it self: because the vertue of it consisteth in a spiritual and occulte qualitie, which eventeth and vanisheth by the carriage.

For as I would my gorget have undon

To event the heat that had mee nigh undone,

An headles arrow strake mee through the throte,

Where through my soule forsooke his fylthy cote.

[…] as Phœbus throws

His beams abroad, though he in clouds be clos’d,

Still glancing by them till he find oppos’d

A loose and rorid vapour that is fit

T’ event his searching beams, and useth it

To form a tender twenty-colour’d eye,

Cast in a circle round about the sky […]

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