Sekirov Dictionary

event

/ɪˈvɛnt/

noun 10
verb 3
forms 3
phrases 3

noun10

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a thing that happens at a certain time and place
- In the event of strong wind…
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.
An episode of severe health conditions.
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A prearranged social activity (function, etc.)
- I went to an event in San Francisco last week.
- Where will the event be held?
One of several contests that combine to make up a competition.
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An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases).
- In the event, he turned out to have what I needed anyway.
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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.
A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate.
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(figurative, old-fashioned) A remarkable person.
- Miss Burton, you are an event! Sleepy, old Lymston's going to love you! Bye-bye. Bye. — 1985
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(no longer used) An affair in hand; business; enterprise.
- Leave we him to his events. — 1603

verb3

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(no longer used) To occur, take place.
- […] I will first rehearse you an English Historie acted and evented in my Countrey of England […] — 1590
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(no longer used) To be emitted or breathed out; to evaporate.
- o that thou sawst my heart, or didst behold The place from whence that scalding sigh evented. — 1597
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(no longer used) To expose to the air, ventilate.
- 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. — 1559

forms

evented · eventing · events

Phrases with event

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