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event
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)
- An occurrence; something that happens.
- A prearranged social activity (function, etc.)
- One of several contests that combine to make up a competition.
- 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.
- (physics) A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate.
- (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.
- (probability theory) A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample space.
- If 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: , , and .
- (obsolete) An affair in hand; business; enterprise.
- (medicine) An episode of severe health conditions.
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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)
- (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 […]
- 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]
Etymology 2
From French éventer.
Verb
event (third-person singular simple present events, present participle eventing, simple past and past participle evented)
- (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.
- 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]
- (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 […]
- 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]
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
- 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
- An event, a prearranged social activity (function, etc.).
Declension
Related terms
- evenemang
- eventuell
Anagrams
- teven, veten
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revisionism
English
Etymology
revision +? -ism
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???v????n?z?m/
Noun
revisionism (countable and uncountable, plural revisionisms)
- (historiography) The advocacy of a revision of some accepted theory, doctrine or a view of historical events.
- 2018, Anne Perkins, A Dad’s Army-style Brexit looms. ‘Don’t panic!’ in the Guardian.[2]
- Tories spent last week boldly whistling their unique brand of the kind of historical revisionism that has played a major part in getting us here.
- 2018, Anne Perkins, A Dad’s Army-style Brexit looms. ‘Don’t panic!’ in the Guardian.[2]
- (Marxism, derogatory) An evolutionary form of Marxism, abandoning some of its original principles.
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