eventとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈvɛnt/, /əˈvɛnt/
• Rhymes: -ɛnt

名詞

event (複数形 events)

1. An occurrence; something that happens.
   • 1911, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Goldsmith, Oliver”, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica:

     the events of his early years

   • 2017, Anthony J. McMichael, Alistair Woodward, Cameron Muir, Climate Change and the Health of Nations, →ISBN, page 67:

     Experience in Australia indicates that after a devastating weather event, up to one-fifth of people suffer the debilitating effects of extreme stress, emotional injury, and despair.

2. A prearranged social activity (function, etc.)

   I went to an event in San Francisco last week.

   Where will the event be held?

3. One of several contests that combine to make up a competition.
4. An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases).
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970, partition 2, section 3, member 3:

     hard beginnings have many times prosperous events […].

   • 1707, Semele, by Eccles and Congrieve; scene 8

     Of my ill boding Dream / Behold the dire Event.

   • (Can we date this quote by Young かつ provide title, author’s full name, かつ other details?)

     dark doubts between the promise and event

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

5. (physics) A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate.
6. (computing) 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.
7. (probability theory) A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample space.

   If ${\displaystyle X}$ 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: ${\displaystyle X=1}$, ${\displaystyle X=2}$, ${\displaystyle X\geq 5,X\not =4,}$ and ${\displaystyle X\in \{1,3,5\}}$.

8. (obsolete) An affair in hand; business; enterprise.
   • c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, “Measvre for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene ii]:

     Leave we him to his events.

9. (medicine) An episode of severe health conditions.

下位語

派生語

関連する語

Further reading

• event in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• event in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911.

動詞

event (三人称単数 現在形 events, 現在分詞 eventing, 過去形および過去分詞形 evented)

1. (obsolete) To occur, take place.
   • 1590, Robert Greene, Greene’s Never Too Late, in The Life and Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Robert Greene, Volume 8, Huff Library, 1881, p. 33,^[1]

     […] I will first rehearse you an English Historie acted and evented in my Countrey of England […]

語源 2

From French éventer.

動詞

event (三人称単数 現在形 events, 現在分詞 eventing, 過去形および過去分詞形 evented)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To be emitted or breathed out; to evaporate.
   • c. 1597, Ben Jonson, The Case is Altered, Act V, Scene 8, in C. H. Herford and Percy Simpson (editors), Ben Jonson, Volume 3, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1927, p. 178,^[2]

     ô that thou sawst my heart, or didst behold

     The place from whence that scalding sigh evented.

   • 1615, William Barclay, Callirhoe; commonly called The Well of Spa or The Nymph of Aberdene, Aberdeen, 1799, p. 12,^[3]

     This is the reason why this water hath no such force when it is carried, as it hath at the spring it self: because the vertue of it consisteth in a spiritual and occulte qualitie, which eventeth and vanisheth by the carriage.

2. (obsolete, transitive) To expose to the air, ventilate.
   • 1559, attributed to William Baldwin, “How the Lorde Clyfford for his straunge and abhominable cruelty came to as straunge and sodayne a death” in The Mirror for Magistrates, Part III, edited by Joseph Haslewood, London: Lackington, Allen & Co., 1815, Volume 2, p. 198,^[4]

     For as I would my gorget have undon

     To event the heat that had mee nigh undone,

     An headles arrow strake mee through the throte,

     Where through my soule forsooke his fylthy cote.

   • 1598, George Chapman, The Third Sestiad, Hero and Leander (completion of the poem begun by Christopher Marlowe),^[5]

     […] as Phœbus throws

     His beams abroad, though he in clouds be clos’d,

     Still glancing by them till he find oppos’d

     A loose and rorid vapour that is fit

     T’ event his searching beams, and useth it

     To form a tender twenty-colour’d eye,

     Cast in a circle round about the sky […]