event
IPA: ɪvˈɛnt
noun
- 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.
verb
- (obsolete) To occur, take place.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To be emitted or breathed out; to evaporate.
- (obsolete, transitive) To expose to the air, ventilate.
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Examples of "event" in Sentences
- This is a national event.
- The event was not precedential.
- These are the subsequent events.
- The guest hosts at the event are the players competing in the event.
- The events in the comics parallel events in the lives of the characters.
- The solution is to assign the mitigation plan to an event or event chain.
- It was both the concept of the conceptual art event, and the event itself.
- In this case the information on the event could be given in Joe the Plumber.
- However, the act of observing this event determines the outcome of the event.
- But the later events of the eventful year went uniformly against the Russians.
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