Accident vs. Incident

Accidentnoun

An unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one suffering the consequences.

Accidentnoun

Especially, a collision or similar unintended event that causes damage or death.

Accidentnoun

Any chance event.

Accidentnoun

(uncountable) Chance.

Accidentnoun

Any property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential.

Accidentnoun

(euphemistic) An instance of incontinence.

Accidentnoun

(euphemistic) An unintended pregnancy.

Accidentnoun

A quality or attribute in distinction from the substance, as sweetness, softness.

Accidentnoun

(grammar) A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, such as gender, number, or case.

Accidentnoun

(geology) An irregular surface feature with no apparent cause.

Accidentnoun

(heraldry) A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.

Accidentnoun

(legal) casus; such unforeseen, extraordinary, extraneous interference as is out of the range of ordinary calculation.

Accidentnoun

Appearance, manifestation.

Accidentnoun

Literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event; chance; contingency; often, an undesigned and unforeseen occurrence of an afflictive or unfortunate character; a casualty; a mishap; as, to die by an accident.

Accidentnoun

A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, case.

Accidentnoun

A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.

Accidentnoun

A property or quality of a thing which is not essential to it, as whiteness in paper; an attribute.

Accidentnoun

Any accidental property, fact, or relation; an accidental or nonessential; as, beauty is an accident.

Accidentnoun

Unusual appearance or effect.

Accidentnoun

a mishap; especially one causing injury or death

Accidentnoun

anything that happens by chance without an apparent cause

Accidentnoun

an unfortunate incident that happens unexpectedly and unintentionally, typically resulting in damage or injury

Accidentnoun

a crash involving road or other vehicles

Accidentnoun

an incidence of incontinence by a child or animal

Accidentnoun

an event that happens by chance or that is without apparent or deliberate cause

Accidentnoun

the working of fortune; chance

Accidentnoun

(in Aristotelian thought) a property of a thing which is not essential to its nature.

Accident

An accident is an unintended, normally unwanted event that was not directly caused by humans. The term accident implies that nobody should be blamed, but the event may have been caused by unrecognized or unaddressed risks.

Incidentnoun

An event or occurrence.

Incidentnoun

A (relatively minor) event that is incidental to, or related to others.

Incidentnoun

An event that causes or may cause an interruption or a crisis, such as a workplace illness or a software error.

Incidentadjective

Arising as the result of an event, inherent.

Incidentadjective

Falling on or striking a surface.

Incidentadjective

Coming or happening accidentally; not in the usual course of things; not in connection with the main design; not according to expectation; casual; fortuitous.

Incidentadjective

Liable to happen; apt to occur; befalling; hence, naturally happening or appertaining.

Incidentadjective

(legal) Dependent upon, or appertaining to, another thing, called the principal.

Incidentadjective

Falling or striking upon, as a ray of light upon a reflecting surface.

Incidentadjective

Coming or happening accidentally; not in the usual course of things; not in connection with the main design; not according to expectation; casual; fortuitous.

Incidentadjective

Liable to happen; apt to occur; befalling; hence, naturally happening or appertaining.

Incidentadjective

Dependent upon, or appertaining to, another thing, called the principal.

Incidentnoun

That which falls out or takes place; an event; casualty; occurrence.

Incidentnoun

That which happens aside from the main design; an accidental or subordinate action or event.

Incidentnoun

Something appertaining to, passing with, or depending on, another, called the principal.

Incidentnoun

a single distinct event

Incidentnoun

a public disturbance;

Incidentadjective

falling or striking on something

Incidentadjective

(sometimes followed by `to') minor or casual or subordinate in significance or nature or occurring as a chance concomitant or consequence;