Event

English

Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

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Noun

1. An occurrence; something that happens.
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2. A prearranged social activity (function, etc.)

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3. One of several contests that combine to make up a competition.
4. An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases).
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     Of my ill boding Dream / Behold the dire Event.

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

5. Template:Lb A remarkable person.

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6. Template:Lb A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate.
7. Template:Lb 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.
8. Template:Lb 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: $X=1$, $X=2$, $X\ge 5,X=4,$ and $X\in \{1,3,5\}$.

9. Template:Lb An affair in hand; business; enterprise.
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10. Template:Lb An episode of severe health conditions.

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Further reading

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Verb

1. Template:Lb 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,^[1]

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Etymology 2

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Verb

1. Template:Lb To be emitted or breathed out; to evaporate.
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     ô that thou sawst my heart, or didst behold

     The place from whence that scalding sigh evented.

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2. Template:Lb To expose to the air, ventilate.
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     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.

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

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     A loose and rorid vapour that is fit

     T’ event his searching beams, and useth it

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Danish

Etymology

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Noun

1. An Template:L, a prearranged social activity (function, etc.).

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Polish

Etymology

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Noun

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Swedish

Etymology

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Noun

1. An Template:L, a prearranged social activity (function, etc.).

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