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Incident vs Venture - What's the difference?

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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

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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
  • Derived terms

    * incidental * aviation incident * coincident * incident room

    Adjective

    (-)
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Liable to happen; apt to occur; befalling; hence, naturally happening or appertaining.
  • * Milton
  • all chances incident to man's frail life
  • * Milward
  • the studies incident to his profession
  • (legal) Dependent upon, or appertaining to, another thing, called the principal.
  • venture

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A risky or daring undertaking or journey.
  • * 1881 , Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island . Chapter 4.
  • My heart was beating finely when we two set forth in the cold night upon this dangerous venture .
  • An event that is not, or cannot be, foreseen; an accident; chance; contingency.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • The thing risked; a stake; especially, something sent to sea in trade.
  • * Shakespeare
  • My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.

    Verb

    (ventur)
  • To undertake a risky or daring journey.
  • * J. Dryden, Jr.
  • who freights a ship to venture on the seas
  • To risk or offer.
  • to venture funds
    to venture a guess
  • * Shakespeare
  • I am afraid; and yet I'll venture it.
  • * 1922 , (James Joyce), Chapter 13
  • 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 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 venture a horse to the West Indies
  • To confide in; to rely on; to trust.
  • * Addison
  • A man would be well enough pleased to buy silks of one whom he would not venture to feel his pulse.
  • To say something.
  • Derived terms

    * venture capital