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event¹
- /ɪˈvɛnt/ UK
- /ɪˈvɛnt/ Canada, US
- /i-/ Canada, US
- /ə-/ Canada, US
- /əˈvent/ Australia, New Zealand
- /ɪˈʋɛɳʈ/ India, North
- /iːˈʋɛɳʈ/ India, North
- /ˈiː.ʋɛɳʈ/ India, South
Rhymes with -ɛnt
Where it comes from
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 events
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An occurrence; something that happens.
In the event of strong wind…
Similar: circumstance
- A prearranged social activity (function, etc.) I went to an event in San Francisco last week.
- One of several contests that combine to make up a competition.
- An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases). hard beginnings have many times prosperous events […].
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A remarkable person.
Miss Burton, you are an event! Sleepy, old Lymston's going to love you! Bye-bye. Bye.
Similar: sensation
- A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate.
- 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.
- A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample space. If 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, X=2, X>5,X̸=4, and X isin 1,3,5.
- An affair in hand; business; enterprise. Leave we him to his events.
- An episode of severe health conditions.
verb events · eventing · evented
- To occur, take place. 1590, Robert Greene, Greene’s Never Too Late, in The Life and Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Robert Greene, Volume 8, Huff Library, 1881, p. 33, […] I will first rehearse you an English Historie acted and evented in my Countrey of England […]
event²
verb events · eventing · evented
- To be emitted or breathed out; to evaporate. c. 1597, Ben Jonson, The Case is Altered, Act V, Scene 8, in C. H. Herford and Percy Simpson (editors), Ben Jonson, Volume 3, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1927, p. 178, ô that thou sawst my heart, or didst behold The place from whence that scalding sigh evented.
- To expose to the air, ventilate. 1559, attributed to William Baldwin, “How the Lorde Clyfford for his straunge and abhominable cruelty came to as straunge and sodayne a death” in The Mirror for Magistrates, Part III, edited by Joseph Haslewood, London: Lackington, Allen & Co., 1815, Volume 2, p. 198, For as I would my gorget have u
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: case, incidence, incident, occurrence, circumstance, occasion, outcome, situation, opportunity, activity, cause, contingency, applicable, action, hindsight, initiative
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noun occurrence
| Español | evento, suceso, acontecimiento, efeméride, efemérides |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 행사 haengsa, 이벤트 ibenteu, 사건 sageon |
| 日本語 | イベント ibento, 出来事 dekigoto, 事件 jiken |
| 中文 | 事件 shìjiàn, 活動 /活动 huódòng |
| हिन्दी | घटना ghaṭnā |
| Kiswahili | kisa, tukio |
| Português | evento |
| Français | événement, évènement |
| Deutsch | Ereignis, Geschehnis, Vorgang |
| Italiano | evento, fatto, accadimento |
| Ελληνικά | γεγονός gegonós, συμβάν symván |
| Română | eveniment |
| Русский | собы́тие sobýtije, происше́ствие proisšéstvije, слу́чай slúčaj |
| Tiếng Việt | sự kiện, sự việc |
| العربية | وَاقِعَة wāqiʕa, حَادِثَة ḥādiṯa |
| עברית | אירוע \ אֵרוּעַ erúa |
noun prearranged social activity
| हिन्दी | प्रसंग prasaṅg |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | Veranstaltung |
noun physics: point in spacetime
| Español | evento |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 사건 sageon |
| 日本語 | 事件 jiken |
| 中文 | 事件 shìjiàn |
| हिन्दी | घटना ghaṭnā |
| Kiswahili | tukio |
| Português | evento |
| Français | événement, évènement |
| Italiano | evento |
| Ελληνικά | γεγονός gegonós |
| Русский | собы́тие sobýtije |
noun computing: action which triggers an event handler
| Español | evento |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | イベント ibento |
| 中文 | 事件 shìjiàn |
| Kiswahili | kisa, tukio |
| Português | evento |
| Français | événement, évènement |
| Deutsch | Ereignis |
| Italiano | evento |
| Ελληνικά | συμβαν symvan |
| Русский | собы́тие sobýtije |
| עברית | אירוע |
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