Event vs Eventually - What's the difference?
event | eventually |
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.
In the end.
* 2004 , , Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage ,
(mathematics, of a sequence) For some tail.
As a noun event
is blowhole (of cetaceans).As an adverb eventually is
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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 .
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 wordseventually
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Adverb
(-)- It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.