Word Finder - event

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An occurrence; something that happens.

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A prearranged social activity (function, etc.)

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I went to an event in San Francisco last week.

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One of several contests that combine to make up a competition.

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An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases).

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

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A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate.

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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.

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A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample space.

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An affair in hand; business; enterprise.

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An episode of severe health conditions.

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To occur, take place.

This is the fourth event in the past few days.

The next important event in my life was my visit to Boston, in May, 1888.

It is the most likely event to occur.

It would fast become the social event of the year.

Julia and Rachel were looking forward to the event, and each had a boyfriend to drag along.

The conquest of Kazan was an epoch-making event in the history of eastern Europe.

I wouldn't have spent years grooming you for this type of event if I didn't believe in you.

He took no part in preparing that event.

All were mellowing on two bottles of cognac Paul Dawkins provided, in smiling celebration of some event known only to him and Paulette.

The farther back in history the object of our observation lies, the more doubtful does the free will of those concerned in the event become and the more manifest the law of inevitability.

The blond deity with multi-hued eyes and a quick smile was dressed for a dressage event, complete with helmet and crop.

In any event, they remained as they always had been, the very best of friends.

That event was the climax of a long series of horrors.

This event happened previous to the expulsion of the tyrant Christiern the Second from Sweden.

With this, the expectation of such an event at last separates itself from any connexion with historical fact, and becomes purely ideal.

The latter had, about the time of the recognition of Ferdinand as king of the Romans, and partly in consequence of that event, formed at Schmalkalden a league, of which John Frederick, elector of Saxony, and Philip, landgrave of Hesse, were the leaders.

Finally these two councillors, together with Fabricius, secretary of the royal council, were thrown from the windows of the Hradcany into the moat below - an event known in history as the Defenestration of Prague.

This event by no means disconcerted the believers, who saw in it only another manifestation of Pigott's divinity, and proclaimed it as "an earnest of the total redemption of man."

It is very common, in fact quite normal, for people to experience emotional aftershocks when they have passed through a horrible event.

Unlike the others dressed for a white tie event, he was dressed in leather pants with a tight black Pearl Jam T-shirt, his hair braided, a chain from his spiked belt to his wallet, and heavy black boots.

His action, however, in the event, diminished rather than increased his chances of success, owing to the distrust of his intentions which it inspired.

The salient event of Bela's reign was the terrible Tatar invasion which reduced three-quarters of Hungary to ashes.

By this instrument it was agreed that in the event of her proposals for the reform of the federal constitution being rejected by the German princes, Prussia should declare war in order to give effect to her proposals, and that, in that case, Italy would also declare allianc..

The publicity given to this event renewed the scandal, and in November an attempt to "tar and feather" Mr Pigott resulted in two men being sent to prison.

Tikhon knew that neither the son's arrival nor any other unusual event must be allowed to disturb the appointed order of the day.

But not to speak of the intrinsic quality of histories of this kind (which may possibly even be of use to someone for something) the histories of culture, to which all general histories tend more and more to approximate, are significant from the fact that after seriously and minutely examining various religious, philosophic, and political doctrines as causes of events, as soon as they have to describe an actual historic event such as the campaign of 1812 for instance, they involuntarily describe it as resulting from an exercise of power--and say plainly that that was the result of Napoleon's will.

Men went from the west to the east killing their fellow men, and the event was accompanied by phrases about the glory of France, the baseness of England, and so on.

Was this break in and shooting a coincidental event or might someone else have been as clever as I at tracking down this nefarious tipster?

Article 7 provided that the decision should be made within three months from the close of the argument, and gave power to the arbitrators to award a sum in gross in the event of Great Britain being adjudged to be in the wrong.

Its description of the conquest of Canaan comes from an age when the event was a shadow of the past.

As a result of popular clamour, however, a survey for a railway was begun in 1907, an event of great importance for the prosperity of Sparta and of the whole Eurotas Plain.

This event is described in the previous article, which focuses on rapid-onset catatonia.

It took one week for a localized event to escalate to world war.

I know that the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.

I may be affected by a theatrical exhibition; on the other hand, I may not be affected by an actual event which appears to concern me much more.

The company is the exclusive or preferred caterer and event manager at about 14 venues in and around Edinburgh.

Smoking is strictly forbidden in any public area of the Relay event.

To round off the day's event, tea was served in the viewing gallery.

In the event she was sent in June to Gibraltar with a convoy of troops to reinforce the garrison there.

The first airborne event was a timed entrance gate at Puffin Island which they flew at 1000 feet.

A standby generator was provided in the event of a power failure.

The event, held at Cardiff University, attracted a large number of participants including genetic counseling students, social scientists and clinicians.

Coca Cola is set to add fizz to a major sporting event this summer.

This is the time to replace glycogen used during the event.

In the event of the actual constitution of the Bund being shattered by war, the German states were asked whether they would be prepared to join this new organization.

This prestigious ceremony was hosted by HC2000, Europe's largest, most comprehensive health informatics event.

Suddenly the economy went into a drastic free-fall, with one event causing a chain reaction to the next.

This is an event chart but it can be read in the same way as a horary chart.

In that event, it will be marked with an id chit just as if it had already moved.

We have such a wonderfully close-knit group of friends who all did their bit to make this an event to remember.