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Event

//ᵻˈvɛnt// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An occurrence; something that happens.

    "In the event of strong wind…"

  2. 2
    something that happens at a given place and time wordnet
  3. 3
    A prearranged social activity (function, etc.)

    "I went to an event in San Francisco last week."

  4. 4
    a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon wordnet
  5. 5
    One of several contests that combine to make up a competition.
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  1. 6
    a phenomenon located at a single point in space-time; the fundamental observational entity in relativity theory wordnet
  2. 7
    An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases).

    "hard beginnings have many times prosperous events […]."

  3. 8
    a special set of circumstances wordnet
  4. 9
    A remarkable person. dated, figuratively, uncommon

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

  5. 10
    A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate.
  6. 11
    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.
  7. 12
    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."

  8. 13
    An affair in hand; business; enterprise. obsolete

    "Leave we him to his events."

  9. 14
    An episode of severe health conditions.
Verb
  1. 1
    To occur, take place. obsolete

    "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 […]"

  2. 2
    To be emitted or breathed out; to evaporate. intransitive, obsolete

    "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."

  3. 3
    To expose to the air, ventilate. obsolete, transitive

    "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 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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

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.

Etymology 3

From French éventer.

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