Event vs. Episode — What's the Difference?

Something that takes place, especially a significant occurrence.

An episode is a narrative unit within a larger dramatic work or documentary production, such as a series intended for radio, television or on-line consumption. Episode derives from the Greek term (Ancient Greek: ἐπεισόδιον / epeisodion), meaning the material contained between two songs or odes in a Greek tragedy.

A social gathering or activity

A separate part of a serialized work, such as a novel or television series.

(Sports) A contest in a sports competition, such as a meet

A section of a classic Greek tragedy that occurs between two choric songs.

(Physics) A phenomenon or occurrence located at a single point in spacetime, regarded as the fundamental observational entity in relativity theory.

An incident or event that is part of a progression or a larger sequence

(Archaic) A final result; an outcome.

One of a series of events in the course of a narrative or drama.

An occurrence; something that happens.

(Music) A passage between statements of a main subject or theme, as in a rondo or fugue.

A prearranged social activity (function, etc.)

An incident, action, or time period standing out by itself, but more or less connected with a complete series of events.

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

An instalment of a drama told in parts, as in a TV series.

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

A separate incident, story, or action, introduced for the purpose of giving a greater variety to the events related; an incidental narrative, or digression, separable from the main subject, but naturally arising from it.

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

A happening that is distinctive in a series of related events

(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.

A brief section of a literary or dramatic work that forms part of a connected series

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

A part of a broadcast serial

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

Film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie

(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.

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.

To break forth.

Something that happens at a given place and time

A special set of circumstances;

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;