Used in a Sentence

events

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for events.

Editorial note

For rapid anomalous load events in the grid you of course revert to the shutdown mechanisms, but the load-following is used to keep up with everyday demand variations.

Examples16
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

An occurrence; something that happens.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of events gathered in one view.

noun

An occurrence; something that happens.

noun

A prearranged social activity (function, etc.)

noun

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

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for events.

noun

An occurrence; something that happens.

noun

A prearranged social activity (function, etc.)

noun

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

noun

(probability theory) A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample space.

Example sentences

1

For rapid anomalous load events in the grid you of course revert to the shutdown mechanisms, but the load-following is used to keep up with everyday demand variations.

2

SeatGeek — New York, NY — Full Time — We're a search engine for tickets and live events.

3

It's interesting that the OP has built in a feature to add events/milestones to each startup's timeline.

4

If you can reduce the upfront difficulty by accepting OS-specific hotkeys and mouse events, why not?

5

It has been pointed out that this state of affairs has led to many criminal/politically harmful events to be widely known.

6

In total, our analytics backend system needs to handle over 30 billion monthly events from over 450 million monthly unique visitors.

7

Those always seem more like cash grabs and marketing events than actual training value-adds.

8

In the normal course of events, A doesn't care about Site E at all; he cares about the quality of his feed from B.

9

We've been working on a new mobile app, Ceremony, to make it easy for people to collect and share photos at weddings (or similar events).

10

Without apologizing for how bad IE may have been, I am uncomfortable with this turn of events for two reasons: 1.

11

We ingest and process hundreds of thousands of security events per second, using Kafka, Cassandra and Elasticsearch, Golang, Python and Scala.

12

After all the scripted events and lecturing, though, it's anything goes.

Quote examples

1

I've also found similar things in the "Burner" community (ie: people who participate in Burning Man and the many regional events).

2

Teaching at events like RailsGirls, I've had complete beginners start to "get it" and deploy their own websites using Rails and Heroku within a day.

3

I've been going to some regional events for several years now and while I don't live the stereotypical "burner" lifestyle every day, I love having a community in most places I go and a group of people I can meet up with and find those with common interests who want to work on projects together.

4

For instance, if HN downvotes don't stop the haters ( under even the extreme assumption that, on the internet, there are 10 haters to every 1 netizen ), I don't think they're stopping the X times as many humorists ( or "Humorous Comment Events" ).

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use events in a sentence?

For rapid anomalous load events in the grid you of course revert to the shutdown mechanisms, but the load-following is used to keep up with everyday demand variations.

What does events mean?

An occurrence; something that happens.

What part of speech is events?

events is commonly used as noun.