Eventing vs Evening - What's the difference?
eventing | evening |
An equestrian event which comprises dressage, cross-country, and showjumping.
*{{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 23, author=Katie Thomas, title=Equestrian Rider’s Recovery Serves as Reminder of Sport’s Danger, work=New York Times
, passage=Chiacchia had to relearn the basics of walking and tying his shoes, but is now back competing in eventing . }}
The time of the day between dusk and night, when it gets dark.
*{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)
, title= The time of the day between the approximate time of midwinter dusk and midnight (compare afternoon); the period after the end of regular office working hours.
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*:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening', the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every ' evening , for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
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, section=chapter 2, title= (lb) A concluding time period; a point in time near the end of something; the beginning of the end of something.
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As nouns the difference between eventing and evening
is that eventing is an equestrian event which comprises dressage, cross-country, and showjumping while evening is the time of the day between dusk and night, when it gets dark.As a verb evening is
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Derived terms
* three day eventingevening
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) ), corresponding to '' + ''-ing .Noun
(en noun)Geothermal Energy, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.}}
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.}}