Event vs Invent - What's the difference?
event | invent |
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.
To design a new process or mechanism.
To create something fictional for a particular purpose.
(obsolete) To come upon; to find; to find out; to discover.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.vi:
In obsolete terms the difference between event and invent
is that event is an affair in hand; business; enterprise while invent is to come upon; to find; to find out; to discover.As a noun event
is an occurrence; something that happens.As a verb invent is
to design a new process or mechanism.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 .
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 wordsinvent
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Verb
(en verb)- After weeks of hard work, I invented a new way to alphabetize matchbooks.
- I knew I had to invent an excuse, and quickly.
- We need a name to put in this form, so let's just invent one.
- Far off he wonders, what them makes so glad, / If Bacchus merry fruit they did inuent [...].
