Event vs Buckjumping - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between event and buckjumping

is that event is blowhole (of cetaceans) while buckjumping is (of a horse) the action of aggressively attempting to buck a rider.

event

English

(wikipedia event)

Noun

(en noun)

An occurrence; something that happens.

* Macaulay

the events of his early years

An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases).

*, II.3.3:

hard beginnings have many times prosperous events […].

* 1707 , , by Eccles and Congrieve; scene 8

Of my ill boding Dream / Behold the dire Event .

* Young

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.

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:

X = 1

X = 2

X \ge 5, X \not = 4,

and

X \isin \{1,3,5\}

(obsolete) An affair in hand; business; enterprise.

* Shakespeare

Leave we him to his events .

(lb) An episode of severe health conditions.

Derived terms

* blessed event * credit event * current events * doomsday event * eventful * event horizon * eventless * eventual * in the event * K-T extinction event * media event * quick time event * risk event * sentinel event * social event * speciation event * to be wise after the event

External links

* * 1000 English basic words

buckjumping

English

Noun

(-)

(of a horse) The action of aggressively attempting to buck a rider.

* 1863 , , Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts , page 299,

But, after a little preliminary buckjumping , Pyrrhus falsified his keeper?s prediction by behaving well and obediently.

(Australia) A rodeo event in which the rider attempts to stay in the saddle of a bucking horse for a set period.

* 1857 , Godfrey Charles Mundy, Our Antipodes: or, Residence and Rambles in the Australasian Colonies , page 57,

The well-known Australian horse-play, called buckjumping , — the like of which I do not remember seeing in any other part of the world, — is not only very disagreeable but extremely dangerous even to the good horseman.

* 1893 , Ernest Favenc, Tales of the Austral Tropics , Gutenberg Australia eBook #0600691h,

“How well you ride, Mr. McIntyre!” said Miss Webster in the course of the dinner. “I must confess I like to see a bit of good buckjumping .”

Duncan smiled. “I nearly came to grief under that low brigalow though,” he said.