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Affair
An affair is a sexual relationship, romantic friendship, or passionate attachment between two people without the attached person’s significant other knowing.
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Affair (noun)
Something which is done or is to be done; business of any kind, commercial, professional, or public.
“a difficult affair to manage”
“matter|concern”
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Affair (noun)
Any proceeding or action which it is wished to refer to or characterize vaguely.
“an affair of honor, a duel;”
“an affair of love, an intrigue”
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Affair (noun)
An action or engagement not of sufficient magnitude to be called a battle.
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Affair (noun)
A material object (vaguely designated).
“He used a hook-shaped affair with a long handle to unlock the car.”
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Affair (noun)
An adulterous relationship. (from affaire de cœur).
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Affair (noun)
A romantic relationship with someone who is not one’s regular partner (boyfriend, girlfriend).
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Affair (noun)
A person with whom someone has an adulterous relationship.
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Affair (noun)
A party or social gathering, especially of a formal nature.
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Affair (noun)
The (male or female) genitals.
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Event (noun)
An occurrence; something that happens.
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Event (noun)
A prearranged social activity (function, etc.)
“I went to an event in San Francisco last week.”
“Where will the event be held?”
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Event (noun)
One of several contests that combine to make up a competition.
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Event (noun)
An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases).
“In the event, he turned out to have what I needed anyway.”
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Event (noun)
A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate.
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Event (noun)
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.
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Event (noun)
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}.”
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Event (noun)
An affair in hand; business; enterprise.
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Event (noun)
An episode of severe health conditions.
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Event (verb)
To occur, take place.
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Event (verb)
To be emitted or breathed out; to evaporate.
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Event (verb)
To expose to the air, ventilate.
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Affair (noun)
an event or sequence of events of a specified kind or that has previously been referred to
“I wanted the funeral to be a family affair”
“the board admitted responsibility for the affair”
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Affair (noun)
a matter that is a particular person’s concern or responsibility
“what you do in your spare time is your affair”
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Affair (noun)
matters of public interest and importance
“commissions were created to advise on foreign affairs”
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Affair (noun)
business and financial dealings
“his time was spent in winding up his affairs”
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Affair (noun)
a love affair
“his wife is having an affair”
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Affair (noun)
an object of a particular type
“her dress was a black low-cut affair”