Event vs Circumstance - What's the difference?
event | circumstance |
An occurrence; something that happens.
* Macaulay
An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases).
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* 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.
That which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event; an attendant thing or state of things.
* Washington Irving
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* Addison
* 1834 , David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of , Nebraska 1987, p. 20:
Circumlocution; detail.
* Shakespeare
Condition in regard to worldly estate; state of property; situation; surroundings.
* Addison
To place in a particular situation, especially with regard to money or other resources.
* 1858 , , Chapter 8:
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As nouns the difference between event and circumstance
is that event is an occurrence; something that happens while circumstance is that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event; an attendant thing or state of things.As a verb circumstance is
to place in a particular situation, especially with regard to money or other resources.event
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(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 .
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 eventExternal links
* * 1000 English basic wordscircumstance
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Alternative forms
* circumstaunceNoun
(en noun)- The circumstances are well known in the country where they happened.
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- The sculptor had in his thoughts the conqoeror weeping for new worlds, or the like circumstances in history.
- Then another circumstance happened, which made a lasting impression on my memory, though I was but a small child.
- So without more circumstance at all / I hold it fit that we shake hands and part.
- When men are easy in their circumstances , they are naturally enemies to innovations.
Derived terms
{{der3, attendant circumstance , extenuating circumstances , under no circumstance , under the circumstances}}Verb
(circumstanc)- Tidings had in some shape reached is ears that his father was not comfortably circumstanced as regarded money.