different between event vs mater

English

Etymology 1

From Middle French event, from Latin ?ventus (“an event, occurrence”), from ?veni? (“to happen, to fall out, to come out”), from ? (“out of, from”), short form of ex + veni? (“come”); related to venture, advent, convent, invent, convene, evene, etc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??v?nt/, /??v?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

event (plural events)

1. An occurrence; something that happens.
2. A prearranged social activity (function, etc.)

3. One of several contests that combine to make up a competition.
4. An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases).

   • hard beginnings have many times prosperous events […].

   • 1707, Semele, by Eccles and Congrieve; scene 8

     Of my ill boding Dream / Behold the dire Event.

   • dark doubts between the promise and event

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

5. (physics) A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate.
6. (computing) 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.
7. (probability theory) A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample space.

   If ${\displaystyle X}$ is a random variable representing the toss of a six-sided die, then its sample space could be denoted as {1,2,3,4,5,6}. Examples of events could be: ${\displaystyle X=1}$, ${\displaystyle X=2}$, ${\displaystyle X\geq 5,X\not =4,}$ and ${\displaystyle X\in \{1,3,5\}}$.

8. (obsolete) An affair in hand; business; enterprise.
9. (medicine) An episode of severe health conditions.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

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Translations

Further reading

• event in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• event in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Verb

event (third-person singular simple present events, present participle eventing, simple past and past participle evented)

1. (obsolete) To occur, take place.
   • 1590, Robert Greene, Greene’s Never Too Late, in The Life and Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Robert Greene, Volume 8, Huff Library, 1881, p. 33,^[1]

     […] I will first rehearse you an English Historie acted and evented in my Countrey of England […]

Etymology 2

From French éventer.

Verb

event (third-person singular simple present events, present participle eventing, simple past and past participle evented)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To be emitted or breathed out; to evaporate.
   • c. 1597, Ben Jonson, The Case is Altered, Act V, Scene 8, in C. H. Herford and Percy Simpson (editors), Ben Jonson, Volume 3, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1927, p. 178,^[2]

     ô that thou sawst my heart, or didst behold

     The place from whence that scalding sigh evented.

   • 1615, William Barclay, Callirhoe; commonly called The Well of Spa or The Nymph of Aberdene, Aberdeen, 1799, p. 12,^[3]

     This is the reason why this water hath no such force when it is carried, as it hath at the spring it self: because the vertue of it consisteth in a spiritual and occulte qualitie, which eventeth and vanisheth by the carriage.

2. (obsolete, transitive) To expose to the air, ventilate.
   • 1559, attributed to William Baldwin, “How the Lorde Clyfford for his straunge and abhominable cruelty came to as straunge and sodayne a death” in The Mirror for Magistrates, Part III, edited by Joseph Haslewood, London: Lackington, Allen & Co., 1815, Volume 2, p. 198,^[4]

     For as I would my gorget have undon

     To event the heat that had mee nigh undone,

     An headles arrow strake mee through the throte,

     Where through my soule forsooke his fylthy cote.

   • 1598, George Chapman, The Third Sestiad, Hero and Leander (completion of the poem begun by Christopher Marlowe),^[5]

     […] as Phœbus throws

     His beams abroad, though he in clouds be clos’d,

     Still glancing by them till he find oppos’d

     A loose and rorid vapour that is fit

     T’ event his searching beams, and useth it

     To form a tender twenty-colour’d eye,

     Cast in a circle round about the sky […]

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English event, from Middle French event, from Latin ?ventus (“an event, occurrence”), from ?veni? (“to happen, to fall out, to come out”), from ? (“out of, from”), short form of ex + veni? (“come”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??v?nt/

Noun

event

1. An event, a prearranged social activity (function, etc.).

Declension

Related terms

• begivenhed

See also

• eventuel

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English event, from Middle French event, from Latin ?ventus (“an event, occurrence”), from ?veni? (“to happen, to fall out, to come out”), from ? (“out of, from”), short form of ex + veni? (“come”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??v?nt/

Noun

event n

1. An event, a prearranged social activity (function, etc.).

Declension

Related terms

• evenemang
• eventuell

Anagrams

• teven, veten

English

Etymology 1

From Latin m?ter (“mother”), partly via Late Middle English matere. Doublet of mother.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?me?t?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?me?t?/, /?m?t?/
• Rhymes: -e?t?(?)

Noun

mater (plural maters or matres)

1. (Britain, slang, now chiefly archaic or humorous) Mother.
2. (anatomy) A meninx; the dura mater, arachnoid mater, or pia mater of the brain.

Related terms

Etymology 2

mate +? -er

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?me?t?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?me?t?/
• Rhymes: -e?t?(?)

Noun

mater (plural maters)

1. (biology) Someone or something that mates.

Etymology 3

See 'mater.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?me?t?/
• Rhymes: -e?t?(?)

Noun

mater (plural maters)

1. Alternative form of 'mater (“tomato”)
   • 2015, Ann B. Ross, Miss Julia's Marvelous Makeover (?ISBN), page 28:

     "A mater sandwich would be better." Trixie said, "but I'll take it if that's all you got." As if we were woefully deprived of food. So Trixie had a tomato sandwich for lunch, carefully prepared by Lillian but for which she received no thanks.

References

Anagrams

• METAR, Marte, armet, metra, ramet, tamer, terma, trema, tréma

Czech

Etymology

Latin m?ter

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?mat?r]
• Rhymes: -at?r

Noun

mater f

1. title of an abbess

See also

• matka

Related terms

Further reading

• mater in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• mater in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
• mater in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.te/

Etymology 1

From mat (“mate”) +? -er.

Verb

mater

1. (transitive) to checkmate
2. (figuratively, transitive) to suppress, quell (a revolution, person, insurrection)

Conjugation

Etymology 2

Uncertain, perhaps from Spanish mata (“bush”).

Verb

mater

1. (slang, transitive) to ogle, to check out, to watch (e.g. an attractive person)

Conjugation

Further reading

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

References

Anagrams

• marte, trame, tramé, tréma

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *m?t?r, from Proto-Indo-European *méh?t?r. Cognate with Old English m?dor (English mother).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ma?.ter/, [?mä?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ma.ter/, [?m??t??r]
• Hyphenation: ma?ter

Noun

m?ter f (genitive m?tris); third declension

1. mother (female parent)

2. mother (source, origin)
3. matron of a house
4. honorific title
5. woman
6. nurse
7. motherland
8. maternity, motherhood

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Synonyms

• (mother): genetr?x

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

See also

• mamma
• pater

References

• mater in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mater in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Middle English

Noun

mater (plural maters)

1. Alternative form of matere

Norman

Verb

mater

1. to kill

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

mater

1. present of mate

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

mater

1. accusative singular of mati
2. (by extension, regional) Alternative form of mati

Anagrams

• trema, metra

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *mati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mac?r/

Noun

mater f (genitive singular matere, nominative plural matere, genitive plural materí, declension pattern of dla?)

1. mother

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• mater in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk