Event vs. Account

An occurrence; something that happens.

A prearranged social activity (function, etc.)

Example: ‘I went to an event in San Francisco last week.’; ‘Where will the event be held?’;

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

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

Example: ‘In the event, he turned out to have what I needed anyway.’;

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

(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.

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

Example: ‘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\}.’;

(obsolete) An affair in hand; business; enterprise.

(medicine) An episode of severe health conditions.

(obsolete) To occur, take place.

To be emitted or breathed out; to evaporate.

To expose to the air, ventilate.

That which comes, arrives, or happens; that which falls out; any incident, good or bad.

Example: ‘To watch quietly the course of events.’; ‘There is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked.’;

An affair in hand; business; enterprise.

The consequence of anything; the issue; conclusion; result; that in which an action, operation, or series of operations, terminates.

Example: ‘Dark doubts between the promise and event.’;

To break forth.

something that happens at a given place and time

a special set of circumstances;

Example: ‘in that event, the first possibility is excluded’; ‘it may rain in which case the picnic will be canceled’;

a phenomenon located at a single point in space-time; the fundamental observational entity in relativity theory

a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon;

Example: ‘the magnetic effect was greater when the rod was lengthwise’; ‘his decision had depressing consequences for business’; ‘he acted very wise after the event’;

(accounting) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review.

(banking) A sum of money deposited at a bank and subject to withdrawal.

Example: ‘to keep one's account at the bank.’;

A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.

Example: ‘No satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena.’;

A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake.

Example: ‘Don't trouble yourself on my account.’; ‘on no account; on every account; on all accounts’;

(business) A business relationship involving the exchange of money and credit.

A record of events; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description.

Example: ‘An account of a battle.’;

An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.

Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.

An authorization to use a service.

Example: ‘I've opened an account with Wikipedia so that I can contribute and partake in the project.’;

(archaic) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.

Profit; advantage.

To provide explanation.

To present an account of; to answer for, to justify.

To give an account of financial transactions, money received etc.

(transitive) To estimate, consider (something to be as described).

(intransitive) To consider that.

(intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for financial transactions, money received etc.

Example: ‘An officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.’;

(intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for (one's actions, behaviour etc.); to answer for.

Example: ‘We must account for the use of our opportunities.’;

(intransitive) To give a satisfactory reason for; to explain.

Example: ‘Idleness accounts for poverty.’;

(intransitive) To establish the location for someone.

Example: ‘After the crash, not all passengers were accounted for.’;

(intransitive) To cause the death, capture, or destruction of someone or something (+ for).

To count.

To calculate, work out (especially with periods of time).

(obsolete) To count (up), enumerate.

(obsolete) To recount, relate (a narrative etc.).

A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.

Example: ‘A beggarly account of empty boxes.’;

A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review; as, to keep one's account at the bank.

A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; as, no satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena. Hence, the word is often used simply for reason, ground, consideration, motive, etc.; as, on no account, on every account, on all accounts.

A statement of facts or occurrences; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description; as, an account of a battle.

A statement and explanation or vindication of one's conduct with reference to judgment thereon.

Example: ‘Give an account of thy stewardship.’;

An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.

Importance; worth; value; advantage; profit.

Example: ‘This other part . . . makes account to find no slender arguments for this assertion out of those very scriptures which are commonly urged against it.’;

To reckon; to compute; to count.

Example: ‘The motion of . . . the sun whereby years are accounted.’;

To place to one's account; to put to the credit of; to assign; - with to.

To value, estimate, or hold in opinion; to judge or consider; to deem.

Example: ‘Accounting that God was able to raise him up.’;

To recount; to relate.

To render or receive an account or relation of particulars; as, an officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.

To render an account; to answer in judgment; - with for; as, we must account for the use of our opportunities.

To give a satisfactory reason; to tell the cause of; to explain; - with for; as, idleness accounts for poverty.

Example: ‘Newer was preaching more accounted of than in the sixteenth century.’;

a formal contractual relationship established to provide for regular banking or brokerage or business services;

Example: ‘he asked to see the executive who handled his account’;

the act of informing by verbal report;

Example: ‘he heard reports that they were causing trouble’; ‘by all accounts they were a happy couple’;

a record or narrative description of past events;

Example: ‘a history of France’; ‘he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president’; ‘the story of exposure to lead’;

a short account of the news;

Example: ‘the report of his speech’; ‘the story was on the 11 o'clock news’; ‘the account of his speech that was given on the evening news made the governor furious’;

a statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance;

Example: ‘they send me an accounting every month’;

a statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc.;

Example: ‘the explanation was very simple’; ‘I expected a brief account’;

an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered;

Example: ‘he paid his bill and left’; ‘send me an account of what I owe’;

grounds;

Example: ‘don't do it on my account’; ‘the paper was rejected on account of its length’; ‘he tried to blame the victim but his success on that score was doubtful’;

importance or value;

Example: ‘a person of considerable account’; ‘he predicted that although it is of small account now it will rapidly increase in importance’;

the quality of taking advantage;

Example: ‘she turned her writing skills to good account’;

be the sole or primary factor in the existence, acquisition, supply, or disposal of something;

Example: ‘Passing grades account for half of the grades given in this exam’;

keep an account of

to give an account or representation of in words;

Example: ‘Discreet Italian police described it in a manner typically continental’;

furnish a justifying analysis or explanation;

Example: ‘I can't account for the missing money’;