Word Finder - incident

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An event or occurrence.

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It was an incident that he hoped to forget.

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A (relatively minor) event that is incidental to, or related to others.

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An event that causes or may cause an interruption or a crisis, such as a workplace illness or a software error.

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Arising as the result of an event, inherent.

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(of a stream of particles or radiation) Falling on or striking a surface.

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The incident light illuminated the surface.

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Coming or happening accidentally; not in the usual course of things; not in connection with the main design; not according to expectation; casual; fortuitous.

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Liable to happen; apt to occur; befalling; hence, naturally happening or appertaining.

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Dependent upon, or appertaining to, another thing, called the principal.

He'd changed since their incident.

Nothing more was said about the incident at the barn.

Maybe that incident inspired her dream that night.

It was an incident which did not change her plan.

A memorable incident occurred at one of these meetings.

Her strong reaction to the childhood incident surprised him.

The next three days flew by without incident - probably because they were all too busy to start any mischief.

Everyone probably knew about the incident with Dulce last night.

No wonder Alex couldn't put that horrible incident out of his mind.

If an incident occurred, why was no one else in the government service housing community awake?

After this last incident, Bill insisted that Katie get a phone.

That evening when Alex came in, she had put the incident to the back of her mind.

Dean made a note to ask Cynthia Byrne about the incident.

One incident alone is preserved.

The summer and winter following the "Frost King" incident I spent with my family in Alabama.

She'd thought the couch incident meant something to him, like it did her.

The days following the incident, Dean had pored over more mug books, sure he would be able to identify at least one of the two hoods.

Maybe it was an isolated incident.

She immediately told him about the incident with Jonathan and Alfonso and he simply nodded.

One incident was an obvious abduction in rural Delaware that occurred overnight.

This was a necessary incident of his scheme of reform.

In a recent incident even a pizza deliveryman was mugged.

The strong soldier has been utterly demoralized by this incident.

As a result of this gradual hardening and fibrosis of the fascia, symptoms may arise many years after the original incident.

The only effect of this incident on Tikhon was that after being wounded he seldom brought in prisoners.

This incident inspired Itagaki with an apprehension that the country was about to pass under the yoke of a bureaucratic government.

There is one incident which must in any case be accepted as it is found in both narratives.

After this incident Peter returned to Jerusalem.

This incident was bound to affect Frederick German politics.

An incident now occurred which made a strong impression on all present.

An odd incident precipitated the result.

The Battle with Amalek at Rephidim.-This incident is derived from E, but is clearly out of place in its present context.

He was quite aware of the discontent the system excited, and the good-nature with which he tolerated the criticisms directed against it and him is illustrated by a well-known incident.

The incident of Odysseus and Nausicaa formed the subject of a lost play by Sophocles and was frequently represented in ancient art.

The most famous incident, his quarrel with the chiefjustice, has no contemporary authority and was first related by Sir Thomas Elyot in 1531.

The names are diversely given, but probably the combat was only one incident in the long wars of the Camerons with the great Clan Chattan confederacy.

Tell is represented as being one of those who swore at the Ruth to drive out the oppressors; but the narrative of his doings is merely one incident in the general movement which began quite independently of him.

A few days later (November 18) the Tell incident takes place (described according to the White Book version), and on the appointed date the general rising.

It is possible that there may be warm springs on the bed of Lake Victoria, as such springs are of frequent occurrence in the Pamirs; but there is no indication of them in the Chakmaktin basin, and the latter lake must be regarded rather as an incident in the course of the Aksu - a widening of the river channel in the midst of this highlevel, glacier-formed valley - than as the fountain-head of the infant stream.

The Spion Kop incident led to much controversy; for an admirable elucidation of the facts see The Times History of the War in South Africa.

A notable incident in the history of the state was the immigration of the Mormons from Missouri, about 1840.

It declared that the law which called it into being was no longer binding, and that it was supreme in all matters incident to amending the constitution.

He lived at Rome until after the incident at Anagni.

We have followed it long enough to see its directness and simplicity, to observe the naturalness with which one incident succeeds another, and to watch the gradual manifestation of a personality at once strong and sympathetic, wielding extraordinary powers, which are placed wholly at the service of others, and refusing to be hindered from helping men by the ordinary restrictions of social or religious custom.

Before He left the Temple, never to return, one incident gave Him pure satisfaction.

If we ask what must, on grounds of literary probability, have been added before the record was closed, we may content ourselves here with saying that some incident must certainly have been narrated which should have realized the twice-repeated promise that Jesus would be seen by His disciples in Galilee.

Next, we see that wherever we are able to observe its method of relating an incident, as in the case of the healing of the centurion's servant, we have the same characteristics of brevity and simplicity which we admired in St Mark.

A wide knowledge of the Old Testament supplies him with a text to illustrate one incident after another; and so deeply is he impressed with the correspondence between the life of Christ and the words of ancient prophecy, that he does not hesitate to introduce his quotations by the formula " that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet."

But by way of incident he has almost nothing to add till we come to the closing scenes.

The next incident is the feeding of the five thousand, which belongs to the Galilean ministry and is recorded by the three other evangelists.