Incident vs Venture - What's the difference?
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An event or occurrence.
A relatively minor event that is incidental to, or related to others
An event that may cause or causes an interruption or a crisis
In safety, an incident of workplace illness or injury
Arising as the result of an event, inherent
(physics) (of a stream of particles or radiation ) falling on or striking a surface (e.g. "The incident light illuminated the surface.")
Coming or happening accidentally; not in the usual course of things; not in connection with the main design; not according to expectation; casual; fortuitous.
* Hooker
Liable to happen; apt to occur; befalling; hence, naturally happening or appertaining.
* Milton
* Milward
(legal) Dependent upon, or appertaining to, another thing, called the principal.
A risky or daring undertaking or journey.
* 1881 , Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island . Chapter 4.
An event that is not, or cannot be, foreseen; an accident; chance; contingency.
The thing risked; a stake; especially, something sent to sea in trade.
* Shakespeare
To undertake a risky or daring journey.
* J. Dryden, Jr.
To risk or offer.
* Shakespeare
* 1922 , (James Joyce), Chapter 13
to dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success. Used with at'' or ''on
To put or send on a venture or chance.
To confide in; to rely on; to trust.
* Addison
To say something.
Incident is a related term of venture.
As nouns the difference between incident and venture
is that incident is an event or occurrence while venture is a risky or daring undertaking or journey.As an adjective incident
is arising as the result of an event, inherent.As a verb venture is
to undertake a risky or daring journey.incident
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Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* incidental * aviation incident * coincident * incident roomAdjective
(-)- As the ordinary course of common affairs is disposed of by general laws, so likewise men's rarer incident necessities and utilities should be with special equity considered.
- all chances incident to man's frail life
- the studies incident to his profession
venture
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Noun
(en noun)- My heart was beating finely when we two set forth in the cold night upon this dangerous venture .
- (Francis Bacon)
- My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.
Verb
(ventur)- who freights a ship to venture on the seas
- to venture funds
- to venture a guess
- I am afraid; and yet I'll venture it.
- Till then they had only exchanged glances of the most casual but now under the brim of her new hat she ventured a look at him and the face that met her gaze there in the twilight, wan and strangely drawn, seemed to her the saddest she had ever seen.
- to venture a horse to the West Indies
- A man would be well enough pleased to buy silks of one whom he would not venture to feel his pulse.