Feat vs Event - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between feat and event

is that feat is a relatively rare or difficult accomplishment while event is blowhole (of cetaceans).

As an adjective feat

is (archaic) dexterous in movements or service; skilful; neat; pretty.

As a verb feat

is (obsolete) to form; to fashion.

feat

English

Noun

(en noun)

A relatively rare or difficult accomplishment.

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Derived terms

* no small feat * no mean feat

Adjective

(er)

(archaic) dexterous in movements or service; skilful; neat; pretty

* Shakespeare

Never master had a page so feat .

* 1610 , , act 2 scene 1

And look how well my garments sit upon me — / Much feater than before.

Verb

(en verb)
(obsolete) To form; to fashion.

* Shakespeare

To the more mature, / A glass that feated them.

Anagrams

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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.

If $X$ 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
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