Affair vs. Event

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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.

Wikipedia
  • 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”

  • 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”

  • Affair (noun)

    An action or engagement not of sufficient magnitude to be called a battle.

  • Affair (noun)

    A material object (vaguely designated).

    “He used a hook-shaped affair with a long handle to unlock the car.”

  • Affair (noun)

    An adulterous relationship. (from affaire de cœur).

  • Affair (noun)

    A romantic relationship with someone who is not one’s regular partner (boyfriend, girlfriend).

  • Affair (noun)

    A person with whom someone has an adulterous relationship.

  • Affair (noun)

    A party or social gathering, especially of a formal nature.

  • Affair (noun)

    The (male or female) genitals.

  • Event (noun)

    An occurrence; something that happens.

  • Event (noun)

    A prearranged social activity (function, etc.)

    “I went to an event in San Francisco last week.”

    “Where will the event be held?”

  • Event (noun)

    One of several contests that combine to make up a competition.

  • Event (noun)

    An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases).

    “In the event, he turned out to have what I needed anyway.”

  • Event (noun)

    A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate.

  • 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.

  • 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}.”

  • Event (noun)

    An affair in hand; business; enterprise.

  • Event (noun)

    An episode of severe health conditions.

  • Event (verb)

    To occur, take place.

  • Event (verb)

    To be emitted or breathed out; to evaporate.

  • Event (verb)

    To expose to the air, ventilate.

Wiktionary
  • 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”

  • Affair (noun)

    a matter that is a particular person’s concern or responsibility

    “what you do in your spare time is your affair”

  • Affair (noun)

    matters of public interest and importance

    “commissions were created to advise on foreign affairs”

  • Affair (noun)

    business and financial dealings

    “his time was spent in winding up his affairs”

  • Affair (noun)

    a love affair

    “his wife is having an affair”

  • Affair (noun)

    an object of a particular type

    “her dress was a black low-cut affair”

Oxford Dictionary

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