Adjective vs Event - What's the difference?
adjective | event |
(obsolete) Incapable of independent function.
* 1899 , , Emerson and Other Essays , AMS Press (1969) (as [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/13088 reproduced] in Project Gutenberg)
(grammar) Adjectival; pertaining to or functioning as an adjective.
(legal) Applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure.
* Macaulay
(chemistry, of a dye) Needing the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed.
(grammar) A word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent.
(obsolete) A dependent; an accessory.
To make an adjective of; to form or convert into an adjective.
* Tooke
* 1832 , William Hunter, An Anglo-Saxon grammar, and derivatives (page 46)
An occurrence; something that happens.
* Macaulay
An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases).
*, II.3.3:
* 1707 , , by Eccles and Congrieve; scene 8
* Young
(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.
(obsolete) An affair in hand; business; enterprise.
* Shakespeare
(lb) An episode of severe health conditions.
In obsolete terms the difference between adjective and event
is that adjective is a dependent; an accessory while event is an affair in hand; business; enterprise.As an adjective adjective
is incapable of independent function.As a verb adjective
is to make an adjective of; to form or convert into an adjective.adjective
English
Adjective
(-)- In fact, God is of not so much importance in Himself, but as the end towards which man tends. That irreverent person who said that Browning uses “God” as a pigment made an accurate criticism of his theology. In Browning, God is adjective to man.
- The whole English law, substantive and adjective .
Synonyms
* (incapable of independent function) dependent, derivative * (functioning as an adjective) adjectival * (applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure) proceduralAntonyms
* (applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure) substantive * (of a dye that needs the use of a mordant) substantiveDerived terms
* adjectival * adjective clause * adjective phrase * adjective patterns * proper adjective * common adjectiveNoun
(en noun) (wikipedia adjective)- The words “big” and “heavy” are English adjectives .
- (Fuller)
Hyponyms
* See alsoVerb
(adjectiv)- Language has as much occasion to adjective' the distinct signification of the verb, and to adjective also the mood, as it has to adjective time. It has ' adjectived all three.
- In English, instead of adjectiving' our own substantives, we have borrowed, in immense numbers, ' adjectived signs from other languages
event
English
(wikipedia event)Noun
(en noun)- the events of his early years
- hard beginnings have many times prosperous events […].
- 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.
- 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 .
- Leave we him to his events .