Event vs. Activity

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  • 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.

  • Activity (noun)

    The state or quality of being active; activeness; the state of having many things happening

    “Pit row was abuzz with activity.”

  • Activity (noun)

    Something done as an action or a movement.

    “The activity for the morning was a walk to the store.”

  • Activity (noun)

    Something done for pleasure or entertainment, especially one involving movement or an excursion.

    “An increasing number of sports activities are on offer at the university.”

    “Quilting can be an enjoyable activity.”

  • Activity (noun)

    Use (of internet, Playstation, bank account etc.).

  • Activity (noun)

    The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that change over time and have no natural end point.

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