Word Finder - events

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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.

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To be emitted or breathed out; to evaporate.

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To expose to the air, ventilate.

Events and time do not wait.

She was uneasy lingering on the events of the past week.

The events of the last few days coupled with the dread of the unknown future were taking their toll.

That's the real chain of events.

She, too, was rattled by the events of the night.

Recent events forced my hand.

That was certainly a surprising turn of events!

I considered this change of events.

Her comments brought to mind the death of Bird Song's very first guest and the strange events that followed.

The recent chain of events made it impossible for her to deny something serious was going on, and she was somehow involved.

Every chain of events starts with one push, a catalyst, the perfect mix of different elements that craft a path and make an outcome more likely.

No, the events of two weeks past didn't make total sense, at least not yet, but Dean was suddenly interested, not in avoiding Jerome Shipton, but asking him some important questions.

Part of him reeled at the turn of events that found him sitting with a man who had never before acknowledged him.

He didn't seem affected by the words, as if whatever wound the events caused was completely gone.

At all events, two quite distinct views seem to underlie the opening books of the Old Testament.

Pippin's reign is marked by many important events.

She could handle this turn of events.

When you ignored my second summons, you forced me to make a choice and start off a new chain of events.

Right now, I can't trust you to set up what I'd call healthy chain of events.

Deidre lay awake in bed for quite a while, sorting through the events of the weekend.

I set up the chain of events millennia ago and knew if I could push her enough in one direction, she'd go peacefully over the edge, he said.

Gabriel turned the pages of the Oracle's book, watching as words scribbled themselves across the parchment, updating a chain of events that changed with every decision made by the Council That Was Seven.

All were clearly preoccupied by the strange events.

They all sat pondering the strange events.

Only the Lord knew what Linda Segal, The Ice Lady of the Parkside Sentinel, would do with this turn of events.

Dean arrived just as the service was beginning, having been at his desk since 7 a.m. stewing over the recent turn of events.

Josh waited at the foot of the stairs, obviously confused by the turn of events.

The next morning, Sam caught Carmen up with the safari events.

If Xander hadn't erased the events calendar, she'd know where he'd be so she could search his house for the necklace.

Certain events occurred" he raised an eyebrow at her that made her shake her head "and we got sidetracked."

But, further, every attempt to think clearly what those relations are, what we really mean, if we talk of a fixed order of events, forces upon us the necessity of thinking also that the different things which stand in relations or the different phases which follow each other cannot be merely externally strung together or moved about by some indefinable external power, in the form of some predestination or inexorable fate.

But during the whole of this active life, many details of which are very interesting as illustrative of the life and manners of the time, he never lost sight of a design which he had formed at a very early period, of writing the history of those civil wars in France in which he had borne a part, and during which he had had so many opportunities of closely observing the leading personages and events.

Several minor events of Leo's pontificate are worthy of mention.

Returning to Caprera, Garibaldi awaited events.

All Alexius had to do was to sit still, keep out of his father's way as much as possible and await the natural course of events.

When the law speaks universally, and something happens which is not according to the common course of events, it is right that the law should be modified in its application to that particular case, as the lawgiver himself would have done, if the case had been present to his mind.

On the 7th of July he took his seat in the Assembly, and on the 2nd of October both he and Mirabeau were declared by the Assembly entirely free of any complicity in the events of October.

But while these events were taking place, a new source of embarrassment had arisen at Calcutta.

Pericles may now have hoped to resume his aggressive policy in Greece Proper, but the events of the following years completely disillusioned him.

Abisares preferred to play a double game and wait upon events.

His conduct was attacked before the board of directors in London, but events seemed to prove that he was in the right, and in 1769 he became a director of the company, having in the previous year obtained a seat in parliament.

These events shook the whole Persian empire; Babylon and other subject states rose in revolt, and to the Jews it seemed that Persia was tottering and that the Messianic era was nigh.

These officials, at the command of the senate, consulted the Sibylline books in order to discover, not exact predictions of definite future events, but the religious observances necessary to avert extraordinary calamities (pestilence, earthquake) and to expiate prodigies in cases where the national deities were unable, or unwilling, to help. Only the interpretation of the oracle which was considered suitable to the emergency was made known to the public, not the oracle itself.

As the deed was not destroyed, but is in existence now, it is to be presumed that the terms of it were, riot fulfilled; but the fact that such a contract should have been drawn up by Napier himself affords a singular illustration of the state of society and the kind of events in the midst of which logarithms had their birth.

He took some part in the political events of the time; in 994 he was a hostage in the hands of the Northmen, and he was not unfamiliar with the actualities of war.

It is rough in form and the author shows no power of discriminating between important and unimportant events; yet the chronicle is an excellent authority for the history of Saxony during the reigns of the emperors Otto III.

The two most striking political events in the modern history of Australia, as a whole, apart from the readiness it has shown to remain a part of the British empire, and to in Australia.

One of the most notable events in the modern history of Australia occurred shortly after the great strike of 1890.

The events of these three years taught the Labour leaders that a parliamentary party was of little practical influence unless it was able to cast on all important occasions a solid vote, and to meet the case a new method was devised.

At all events, during the first months of the reign of Artaxerxes I., he was the ruling power in the state (therefore the chronographers wrongly reckon him as king, with a reign of seven months), until Artaxerxes, having learned the truth about the murder of his father and his brother, overwhelmed and killed Artabanus and his sons in open fight.