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Event

noun

Something that happens at a given place and time.

A special set of circumstances. Synonym: case. "It may rain in which case the picnic will be canceled"

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

A phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon. Synonyms: consequence, effect, issue, outcome, result, upshot. "His decision had depressing consequences for business" , "He acted very wise after the event"

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"Event" Quotes from Famous Books

... the body is then drawn up. As yet it was not necessary to go so carefully. But when, after hours, we came to a clearing as grateful as I was for the chance of unhampered movement, I dropped to hands and knees. Ten minutes of thus shinning passed without event. Then suddenly a boche voice called out, a little to our front: "Bist du Deutsch?" That much German I understood. We flattened. As it happened, we were at the foot of a tree at the base of which grew brush. We lay motionless. Again the voice, ...

— Winning a Cause - World War Stories • John Gilbert Thompson and Inez Bigwood

... one hand, hanging against her knee. The left arm was extended as a balance, enough of it being shown bare to make Oak wish that the event had happened in the summer, when the whole would have been revealed. There was a bright air and manner about her now, by which she seemed to imply that the desirability of her existence could not be questioned; and this rather saucy assumption failed in ...

— Far from the Madding Crowd • Thomas Hardy

... hearts were in deepest sympathy with our fellow-citizens of Chicago, and it occurred to me that their losses, sufferings, and fortitude might teach lessons after the echoes of the appalling event had died away in the press; and that even the lurid and destructive flames might reveal with greater vividness the need ...

— Barriers Burned Away • E. P. Roe

... to his succession, nor had any regard for his family. And these prejudices were heightened by secretary Cecil in his private correspondence with that pusilanimous, jealous prince, before he ascended the Throne of England, or at least immediately upon that event; for tho' Raleigh and Cecil had united against Essex, yet after the ruin of that earl and his party, their seeming friendship terminated in a mutual struggle for a superiority of power. But there is another ...

— The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) - Volume I. • Theophilus Cibber

... as the event was known the whole country was roused, and every man who was not an associate of the horse-thieves, shouldered his rifle to go in pursuit of the murderers. They apprehended the father of Driscoll, a man nearly seventy years of ...

— Letters of a Traveller - Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America • William Cullen Bryant

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