different between dressage vs eventing

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French dressage (“training”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?d??s.???/
• Rhymes: -???

Noun

dressage (countable and uncountable, plural dressages)

1. (uncountable) The schooling of a horse.
2. (uncountable) An equestrian sport in which the horse and rider perform a test of specific movements in an arena, and are judged on the horse's obedience, acceptance of the bridle and of the rider's aids, gaits, impulsion, and the harmony between horse and rider.
3. (countable) An event or competition of the sport of dressage.

   I'm competing in two dressages and a jumping show this weekend.

Synonyms

• (the training of a horse): flatwork, training, haute ecole (high school), classical dressage, (poetically) ballet on horseback

Translations

Anagrams

• de Grasse, degasser, regassed

French

Etymology

From dresser +? -age.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??.sa?/

Noun

dressage m (plural dressages)

1. training
2. dressage

Descendants

• ? English: dressage

Further reading

• “dressage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

event +? -ing

Noun

eventing (usually uncountable, plural eventings)

1. An equestrian event which comprises dressage, cross-country, and showjumping; a similar event using motor cars
2. (computing) The ability of one system or part of a program to send notifications to another, by raising events.
   • 2011, Thomas Lee, Karl Mitschke, Mark E. Schill, Windows PowerShell 2.0 Bible

     The concept behind eventing is fairly simple. With eventing, you have two pieces of code. For example, you might have a script that is running based on a scheduled task. That script might encounter some condition and can raise (or signal) an event, perhaps that it has completed its work. A second bit of code, perhaps a second script running on that same system, can register for events.

3. (social sciences, rare) The occurrence of an event.

Derived terms

• three day eventing

Translations

Verb

eventing

1. (obsolete) present participle of event