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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
event
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a charity event (=one organized to collect money for a charity)
▪ She spoke at a charity event in aid of famine relief.
a sports event
▪ Is this country able to stage a major sports event?
an exceptional event
▪ If an exceptional event occurs, such as the death of a family member, you can ask for the court case to be postponed.
chance meeting/encounter/event etc
▪ A chance meeting with a journalist changed everything.
festival events
▪ Many of the festival events are already sold out.
field event
forthcoming events
▪ Keep an eye on the noticeboards for forthcoming events.
in case of emergency/in the event of an emergency (=if there is an emergency)
▪ The fire-exit doors should only be opened in case of emergency.
in the unlikely event of sth (=if something which is unlikely happens)
▪ In the unlikely event of an accident, the system will automatically shut down.
isolated incident/case/event
▪ Police say that last week’s protest was an isolated incident.
Momentous events
▪ Momentous events are taking place in the US.
sequence of events
▪ the sequence of events leading up to the war
sporting events
▪ one of the major sporting events of the year
the happy event (=the birth of your child)
▪ When’s the happy event?
three-day event
track event
unforeseen circumstances/events/changes etc
▪ Due to unforeseen circumstances, the play has been cancelled.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
annual
▪ Like the Founder's Day Service, this too has developed into an impressive annual event.
▪ Its big annual event in Dade County, a banquet honoring the judiciary, just made me impatient.
▪ The village atmosphere is kept alive by an annual May Day event and tree and bulb planting schemes.
▪ Funds raised in the third annual charity event will go toward research and new examination and treatment areas.
▪ With the success of these first Championships, the organisers are hoping Blackbird Leys will become an annual event.
▪ Last year, there were 450 people at the annual event.
▪ During the war these readings were an annual event, and she became a close friend.
▪ Its success has spawned an annual event, drawing more than 40, 000 people.
big
▪ It was the Carling tournament at Royal Birkdale, a big event with a great deal of money as first prize.
▪ Its big annual event in Dade County, a banquet honoring the judiciary, just made me impatient.
▪ That was a really exciting moment, I felt as though I'd come from nowhere to a big event.
▪ The concerts, held in the evening, were a big family event.
▪ He had relegated the match to part of a bigger event as he thought people wanted more entertainment.
▪ It's important in small conferences where there are limited numbers moving slowly, but for bigger events it's absolutely crucial.
▪ The race is the biggest single spectator event in the country and attracts more than two hundred thousand fans.
▪ But first, with news of two big sporting events looming, here's Tim.
dramatic
▪ At the Kleiber household in Poplar, these dramatic events passed unnoticed: Ernest and Rosie had more important matters in mind.
▪ As is often the case with dissertations, mine dealt with dramatic events but was abstract, academic, and lifeless.
▪ This is the backcloth to the dramatic events that were soon to follow.
▪ This represents a dramatic turn of events in presidential politics.
▪ I predicted that a dramatic event would soon strike at the heart of the Royal Family.
▪ But the most dramatic event was probably the 4-minute landing.
▪ For Sonny, those dramatic events are less than a blur.
▪ The dramatic events of Black Wednesday leave little chance of avoiding a quick revival of inflationary pressure.
important
▪ As in all the important events in Modigliani's life, there are differing versions of the story.
▪ This inclusion should be shaped into a historical retraining of important events.
▪ So why is it acknowledged that the Geneva Motor Show is the most important event in the automotive calendar?
▪ In the past, comets were feared harbingers of important historical events, including invasions and major disasters.
▪ One very important event in London was his marriage to Anne Bamford.
▪ The development of printing was one of the most important events in the making of our modern world.
▪ All the while important geophysical events were unrelenting.
▪ First of all it is difficult for nomads to gather at one place so important events are made to coincide.
major
▪ Find something to look forward to; it does not have to be a major event.
▪ It is a great interactive way to find out what major events happened this century.
▪ In the past, the publication of such a book would have been a major professional event.
▪ Denver was seen at many major events in the Monterey area.
▪ This process is repeated over and over again in relation to major and minor events throughout the family life-cycle.
▪ The prime seats in the San Jose Arena are already sold out for the major events.
▪ One channel will be a subscription service, mainly feature films and major sporting events.
other
▪ I went to Brighton and saw for myself the absence of most of the top players due to other events taking place.
▪ For the while the war went on. Other issues and events now came to complicate events.
▪ In each case, the subject was reporting which other event a particular experience was synchronous with.
▪ There are other events for women only.
▪ The Ritz winter league and other events on the ice-bound River Ancholme were cancelled.
▪ The Society plans to meet twice a year, with the possibility of matches and other events being organised, subject to demand.
▪ Turn to our Race Series details on page 78 for other events to try.
▪ Some other cellular event was involved, but its nature remained obscure and unexplained for another 30 years.
political
▪ The military and political events of 1939-1945.
▪ A source familiar with Philip Morris said the firm usually invites subcontractors to its political events.
▪ But again political events were overtaking the scheme and bringing in their wake a radical reshaping of the whole programme.
▪ But even this sad circumstance was overshadowed for me by political events of the week.
▪ At that point, she concluded it was a political event and decided not to attend.
▪ We have to make our own political events on the streets and stay in control of them.
▪ The second and opposing view treats political events as the result of forces inherent in human nature.
recent
▪ Given the recent events in Orkney and elsewhere, promoting social work as a caring profession must restore faith in its activities.
▪ You can not tell by recent events and prognostications.
▪ And recent events hadn't helped much, either.
▪ But recent events work against his goal.
▪ In illustration of this last point, a couple of examples can be taken from recent and current events.
▪ The conquest of air by living organisms is a relatively recent event, and one not yet completed.
▪ I wish to add a personal word on a subject related to recent events, in which I played a personal role.
▪ Though legal, recent events raise legitimate questions about the wisdom of accepting donations from permanent residents who can not vote.
social
▪ Funerals are not just some grim social event for retired people.
▪ Alumni in Concert Petra Armitage-Smith talks about a successful social and musical event.
▪ At first they just focused on the fun part, the social events.
▪ The Club's day-to-day affairs and social events carried on side by side.
▪ It will compare different methods of recruitment, identify opportunities for involvement and stress the importance of a programme of social events.
▪ The railways allowed ordinary people to visit the seaside and the country, so that natural-history excursions became social events.
▪ You will find details of our social events and coffee mornings in this newsletter.
special
▪ This vehicle now has a full school programme as well as being present at special events.
▪ She was the publicist for a syndicate of galleries in Soho, an impresario of special events.
▪ In any conference or special event there are certain essentials.
▪ Is it going to be baseball-only, or will it be used for holding special events?
▪ Anniversaries can also be recorded in copper or pewter as a lasting reminder of a special event.
▪ When it was, it was a special events theater.
▪ Here are just a few of the courses available plus some special events and club news.
▪ What the Liquor Board was most interested in is what was happening with the funds generated from these special events liquor licenses.
unlikely
▪ For one thing, especially if the sample is relatively small, unlikely events can skew the sample.
▪ In the unlikely event of it surviving for three years, it becomes mutton.
▪ Should this unlikely event take place, she did not want to be caught looking less than her usual immaculate self.
▪ Except in the unlikely event that rates soon plummet, it could cost the bank up to £100m this year.
▪ This applies when the words are so wide that on a strict construction they cover improbable and unlikely events.
■ NOUN
charity
▪ Large corporations have been quick to see the financial potential in becoming involved with charity events.
▪ Funds raised in the third annual charity event will go toward research and new examination and treatment areas.
▪ I meet him regularly at charity events and we have had many a round of golf together.
▪ People still come to your charity events.
▪ Yorke, 21 today, was returning home from a charity event at 2am, the city's magistrates heard.
▪ David Emanuel left the world of hautecouture to take charge of the charity event at Cheltenham Ladies' College.
▪ The more charity events celebrities do, the greater the euphoria they experience.
▪ And he happily agreed to donate the pumpkin for a charity event in which contestants would guess how many seeds it contained.
■ VERB
attend
▪ The move will double the number of people who can attend this popular event, from 4000 to 8000.
▪ The couple recently attended a campaign event for freshman Rep.
▪ Almost 60,000 people attended last year's event.
▪ Live theater drew 9 percent, nearly double the 5 percent who attended sporting events.
▪ I also won a separate competition arranged by one of the major manufacturers attending the event - another £350.
▪ Buckley said previous commitments blocked him from attending some company events.
▪ About 1,500 young people attended the event.
happen
▪ This is the sort of event which happens once every 50 years on average.
▪ In a phenomenologically complex universe, extremely improbable events are certain to happen.
▪ Much though we might sometimes like it to be otherwise, events unfold as they happen.
▪ We might say that a probable event is one that happens in many or most possible worlds.
▪ Since their interest in the past was primarily moralistic, precise knowledge of actual events and when they happened was not required.
▪ An improbable event is one that happens only in one or a few possible worlds.
▪ They would certainly have thought that such events were unlikely to happen for millennia to come - if at all.
▪ It is a great interactive way to find out what major events happened this century.
hold
▪ Since it is the dinner party hosts holding the event, the whole £100 a head goes to the charity.
▪ Is it going to be baseball-only, or will it be used for holding special events?
▪ Now they are appealing for anyone to hold fund-raising events to boost the coffers.
▪ By law, the costs of holding a fund-raising event are supposed to be reported as a noncash campaign contribution.
▪ Volunteers will be needed during the week to collect envelopes, stand with collection tins and hold money raising events.
▪ It's the first time we've held the event because we wanted something special for the Centenery.
▪ He further held that in any event the public interest did not require the institution of criminal proceedings.
▪ Admission is just £1 and raffles will be held during the events.
occur
▪ If a neutral event occurs within this time-window then it loses its neutrality.
▪ Another characteristic of the third period is that infants reproduce events that occur that interest them.
▪ Electronic mail messages are sent to the terminals of relevant users, telling them when exceptional events occur.
▪ Consider two events that occurred four days and an ocean apart.
▪ Could the events have occurred just as they are described?
▪ How could two 100-year events occur only 15 years apart?
▪ In the event of death occurring in such a case I would accept that it could be an unnatural death.
▪ Certainly, such events can occur.
sport
▪ The advantage is that you can redeem your vouchers for special deals on holidays, sporting events and theatre trips.
▪ Live theater drew 9 percent, nearly double the 5 percent who attended sporting events.
▪ Television will bring these Olympics to a larger audience than any previous sporting event.
▪ He said he also has five satellite dishes, meaning he can watch five sporting events at the same time.
▪ I have been lucky enough to see some pretty spectacular sporting events up close and personal.
▪ A ban on tobacco industry name-brand sponsorship of sporting events would take effect a year later.
▪ So, we do not let our children watch network television, except for an occasional sporting event.
▪ Special events such as major sporting events or concerts cost up to thirty dollars to watch.
win
▪ And the Tynesiders could be among the medals for the first time since they won the event in 1987 and 1988.
▪ Lloyd Mangrum, who won the event four times, enjoyed his greatest finish in 1951.
▪ Her team mate Karen Bleakley won the B event.
▪ Last year she won the event at the World Championships. 19.
▪ Paul Wells had eased off by this point and was actually beaten by his brother who won the domestic event.
▪ Polonski, 22, won the event in 1995.
▪ He popped the shoulder back into place and won the event despite obvious pain.
▪ Bob Pereyra admits he had to work extra hard to win the luge road-racing event Saturday at Castaic.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be overtaken by events
be wise after the event
fringe group/event/issue etc
▪ After the uproar created by Nicholas Tolstoy over the Cossack repatriations, the fringe groups had been taken very seriously.
▪ Few attendees doubted that some fringe groups would respond violently.
▪ One girl shared her story of a fringe group, which for ten years had dominated her life.
▪ The remaining 5 percent aligned themselves with fringe groups such as the Natural Law, Green and Libertarian parties.
▪ To transform a scholarly consensus into something that appears the obsession of a disreputable fringe group requires more than accidental bias.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Joe's party was a splendid event - about 200 people were there.
▪ John rarely misses a sporting event in his town.
▪ Meeting Professor Kearney was an event which changed my life.
▪ Nothing we could have done would have changed the course of events.
▪ Our special December issue lists the most important events of the past year.
▪ Police are attempting to reconstruct the sequence of events on the night of the killing.
▪ The book discusses the events leading up to the outbreak of World War Two.
▪ The evening meal is a time when all the family can get together and discuss the day's events.
▪ The Ryder Cup is the big golfing event this month.
▪ The town's beer festival is an annual event.
▪ Tomorrow's match against Portugal is expected to be the big event of the season.
▪ We have a full programme of social events that take place throughout the year.
▪ Wimbledon is one of Britain's great sporting events.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Every Lee movie contains his signature style; all are major movie events.
▪ In the loop of Henle, the events are qualitatively similar to, but quantitatively different from, events during dilution.
▪ It was really delightful to be treated with such consideration after the events of the last week or so.
▪ The events that it scans during its journey are conceived as the experiences of a positive vector.
▪ The anniversary of the accession of George I, 1 August, was marked by an exciting event on the river.
▪ The observational abilities of the ancients were to have practical application beyond those of time-reckoning and attempt to predict future events.
▪ To my amazement, it was just about as easy and even more fun than writing about real events.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Event

Event \E*vent"\, n. [L. eventus, fr. evenire to happen, come out; e out + venire to come. See Come.]

  1. That which comes, arrives, or happens; that which falls out; any incident, good or bad. ``The events of his early years.''
    --Macaulay.

    To watch quietly the course of events.
    --Jowett (Thucyd. )

    There is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked.
    --Eccl. ix.

  2. 2. An affair in hand; business; enterprise. [Obs.] ``Leave we him to his events.''
    --Shak.

  3. The consequence of anything; the issue; conclusion; result; that in which an action, operation, or series of operations, terminates.

    Dark doubts between the promise and event.
    --Young.

    Syn: Incident; occurrence; adventure; issue; result; termination; consequence; conclusion.

    Usage: Event, Occurrence, Incident, Circumstance. An event denotes that which arises from a preceding state of things. Hence we speak or watching the event; of tracing the progress of events. An occurrence has no reference to any antecedents, but simply marks that which meets us in our progress through life, as if by chance, or in the course of divine providence. The things which thus meet us, if important, are usually connected with antecedents; and hence event is the leading term. In the ``Declaration of Independence'' it is said, ``When, in the cource of human events, it becomes necessary.'' etc. Here, occurrences would be out of place. An incident is that which falls into a state of things to which is does not primarily belong; as, the incidents of a journey. The term is usually applied to things of secondary importance. A circumstance is one of the things surrounding us in our path of life. These may differ greatly in importance; but they are always outsiders, which operate upon us from without, exerting greater or less influence according to their intrinsic importance. A person giving an account of a campaign might dwell on the leading events which it produced; might mention some of its striking occurrences; might allude to some remarkable incidents which attended it; and might give the details of the favorable or adverse circumstances which marked its progress.

Event

Event \E*vent"\, v. t. [F. ['e]venter to fan, divulge, LL. eventare to fan, fr., L. e out + ventus wind.] To break forth. [Obs.]
--B. Jonson.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
event

1570s, "the consequence of anything" (as in in the event that); 1580s, "that which happens;" from Middle French event, from Latin eventus "occurrence, accident, event, fortune, fate, lot, issue," from past participle stem of evenire "to come out, happen, result," from assimilated form of ex- "out" (see ex-) + venire "to come" (see venue). Meaning "a contest or single proceeding in a public sport" is from 1865. Events as "the course of events" is attested from 1842. Event horizon in astrophysics is from 1969.

Wiktionary
event

n. 1 An occurrence; something that happens. 2 An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases). 3 (context physics English) A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate. 4 (context computing English) 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. 5 (context probability theory English) A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample space. 6 (context obsolete English) An affair in hand; business; enterprise. 7 (lb en medicine) An episode of severe health conditions.

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WordNet
event

  1. n. something that happens at a given place and time

  2. a special set of circumstances; "in that event, the first possibility is excluded"; "it may rain in which case the picnic will be canceled" [syn: case]

  3. a phenomenon located at a single point in space-time; the fundamental observational entity in relativity theory

  4. a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon; "the magnetic effect was greater when the rod was lengthwise"; "his decision had depressing consequences for business"; "he acted very wise after the event" [syn: consequence, effect, outcome, result, issue, upshot]

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Wikipedia
Event

Event may refer to:

Event (philosophy)

In philosophy, events are objects in time or instantiations of properties in objects.

Event (UML)

An event in the Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a notable occurrence at a particular point in time.

Events can, but do not necessarily, cause state transitions from one state to another in state machines represented by state machine diagrams.

A transition between states occurs only when any guard condition for that transition are satisfied.

Category:Unified Modeling Language Category:Data modeling

Event (probability theory)

In probability theory, an event is a set of outcomes of an experiment (a subset of the sample space) to which a probability is assigned. A single outcome may be an element of many different events, and different events in an experiment are usually not equally likely, since they may include very different groups of outcomes. An event defines a complementary event, namely the complementary set (the event not occurring), and together these define a Bernoulli trial: did the event occur or not?

Typically, when the sample space is finite, any subset of the sample space is an event (i.e. all elements of the power set of the sample space are defined as events). However, this approach does not work well in cases where the sample space is uncountably infinite, most notably when the outcome is a real number. So, when defining a probability space it is possible, and often necessary, to exclude certain subsets of the sample space from being events (see Events in probability spaces, below).

Event (particle physics)

In particle physics, an event refers to the results just after a fundamental interaction took place between subatomic particles, occurring in a very short time span, at a well-localized region of space. Because of the quantum uncertainty principle, an event in particle physics does not have quite the same meaning as it does in the theory of relativity, in which an "event" is a point in spacetime which can be known exactly, i.e. a spacetime coordinate.

In a typical particle physics event, the incoming particles are scattered or destroyed and up to hundreds of particles can be produced, although few are likely to be new particles not discovered before.

In the old bubble chambers and cloud chambers, "events" could be seen by observing charged particle tracks emerging from the region of the event before they curl due to the magnetic field through the chamber acting on the particles.

At modern particle accelerators, events are the result of the interactions which occur from a beam crossing inside a particle detector.

Physical quantities used to analyze events include the differential cross section, the flux of the beams (which in turn depends on the number density of the particles in the beam and their average velocity), and the rate and luminosity of the experiment.

Individual particle physics events are modeled by scattering theory based on an underlying quantum field theory of the particles and their interactions. The S-matrix is used to characterize the probability of various event outgoing particle states given the incoming particle states. For suitable quantum field theories, the S-matrix may be calculated by a perturbative expansion in terms of Feynman diagrams. At the level of a single Feynman diagram, an "event" occurs when particles and antiparticles emerge from an interaction vertex forwards in time.

Events occur naturally in astrophysics and geophysics, such as subatomic particle showers produced from cosmic ray scattering events.

Event (computing)

In computing, an event is an action or occurrence recognised by software that may be handled by the software. Computer events can be generated or triggered by the system, by the user or in other ways. Typically, events are handled synchronously with the program flow, that is, the software may have one or more dedicated places where events are handled, frequently an event loop. A source of events includes the user, who may interact with the software by way of, for example, keystrokes on the keyboard. Another source is a hardware device such as a timer. Software can also trigger its own set of events into the event loop, e.g. to communicate the completion of a task. Software that changes its behavior in response to events is said to be event-driven, often with the goal of being interactive.

Event (synchronization primitive)

In computer science, an event (also called event semaphore) is a type of synchronization mechanism that is used to indicate to waiting processes when a particular condition has become true.

An event is an abstract data type with a boolean state and the following operations:

  • wait - when executed, causes the executing process to suspend until the event's state is set to true. If the state is already set to true has no effect.
  • set - sets the event's state to true, release all waiting processes.
  • clear - sets the event's state to false.

Different implementations of events may provide different subsets of these possible operations; for example, the implementation provided by Microsoft Windows provides the operations wait (WaitForObject and related functions), set (SetEvent), and clear (ResetEvent). An option that may be specified during creation of the event object changes the behaviour of SetEvent so that only a single thread is released and the state is automatically returned to false after that thread is released.

Events are similar in principle to the condition variables used in monitors, although the precise mechanism of use is somewhat different.

Event (relativity)

In physics, and in particular relativity, an event is a point in spacetime (that is, a specific place and time) and the physical situation or occurrence associated with it. For example, a glass breaking on the floor is an event; it occurs at a unique place and a unique time. Strictly speaking, the notion of an event is an idealization, in the sense that it specifies a definite time and place, whereas any actual event is bound to have a finite extent, both in time and in space.

Upon choosing a frame of reference, one can assign coordinates to the event: three spatial coordinates x⃗ = (x, y, z) to describe the location and one time coordinate t to specify the moment at which the event occurs. These four coordinates (x⃗, t) together form a four-vector associated to the event.

One of the goals of relativity is to specify the possibility of one event influencing another. This is done by means of the metric tensor, which allows for determining the causal structure of spacetime. The difference (or interval) between two events can be classified into spacelike, lightlike and timelike separations. Only if two events are separated by a lightlike or timelike interval can one influence the other.

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Usage examples of "event".

He asked, what officers would risk this event if the rioters themselves, or their abettors, were afterwards to sit as their judges?

But time had worked its curative powers, and soon the letters were abrim with exciting events of this richest court in all the Middle Kingdoms, as well as with pride of new skills mastered.

Then calling on the name of Allah, he gave a last keen cunning sweep with the blade, and following that, the earth awfully quaked and groaned, as if speaking in the abysmal tongue the Mastery of the Event to all men.

For instance, as dust and gas from the outer layers of nearby ordinary stars fall toward the event horizon of a black hole, they are accelerated to nearly the speed of light.

Contenting themselves, for the most part, with the milder chastisements of imprisonment, exile, or slavery in the mines, they left the unhappy victims of their justice some reason to hope, that a prosperous event, the accession, the marriage, or the triumph of an emperor, might speedily restore them, by a general pardon, to their former state.

All who receive influx from heaven and acknowledge divine providence, especially those who have become spiritual through reformation, on beholding events taking a wonderful course see providence as it were from an interior acknowledgment and confess it.

In order that astral events other than those manifesting acoustically may become accessible to our consciousness, our own astral being must become capable of vibrating in tune with them, just as if we were hearing them - that is, we must be able to rouse our astral forces to an activity similar to that of hearing, yet without any physical stimulus.

Giulay, one of the generals included in the capitulation of Ulm, had returned home to acquaint his sovereign with the disastrous event.

But when the atoms come under the influence of the higher-level morphogenetic field of a molecule, these probabilities are modified in such a way that the probability of events leading toward the actualization of the final form are enhanced, while the probability of other events is diminished.

In retrospect, Addle realized that the whole event should have been much more terrifying: breaking into a cemetery near midnight, on an evening when the moon was a great bloodshot eye in the sky.

Not even a droplet of all thine endless love can I aspire to fathom, nor can I adequately praise and tell of even the most trifling out of all the events of thy precious life.

And in the event, it has hitherto been found, that, though some sensible inconveniencies arise from the maxim of adhering strictly to law, yet the advantages overbalance them, and should render the English grateful to the memory of their ancestors, who, after repeated contests, at last established that noble, though dangerous principle.

Jeffrey was particularly interested in the initial sequence of events, when Chris was first administering the epidural anesthesia.

While a brilliant career of material improvement and commercial advancement was developed by our Indian empire, the event burst forth which deluged the Bengal provinces, and Central India, with blood, and appalled the world.

Finally, after having remarked that times of tranquillity were the proper seasons for lessening the national debt, and strengthening the kingdom against future events, he recommended to the commons the improvement of the public revenue, the maintenance of a considerable naval force, the advancement of commerce, and the cultivation of the arts of peace.