Event vs. Process — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Event and Process
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Event
Something that takes place, especially a significant occurrence.
Process
A series of actions, changes, or functions bringing about a result
The process of digestion.
The process of obtaining a driver's license.
Event
A social gathering or activity
The fundraising event was held in the ballroom.
Process
A series of operations performed in the making or treatment of a product
A manufacturing process.
Leather dyed during the tanning process.
Event
(Sports) A contest in a sports competition, such as a meet
Swimming events.
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Process
Progress; passage
The process of time.
Events now in process.
Event
(Physics) A phenomenon or occurrence located at a single point in spacetime, regarded as the fundamental observational entity in relativity theory.
Process
The use of the law courts and other fora as a means of seeking redress
The adversarial process.
Due process of law.
Event
(Archaic) A final result; an outcome.
Process
The set of actions and events that constitute a legal proceeding or a significant portion thereof
The trial process.
The sentencing process.
Event
An occurrence; something that happens.
Process
(Law) A means of compelling a person to appear in court, especially a summons ordering a defendant to appear in court.
Event
A prearranged social activity (function, etc.)
I went to an event in San Francisco last week.
Where will the event be held?
Process
(Biology) An outgrowth of tissue; a projecting part
A bony process.
Event
One of several contests that combine to make up a competition.
Process
Any of various photomechanical or photoengraving methods.
Event
An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases).
In the event, he turned out to have what I needed anyway.
Process
A running software program or other computing operation.
Event
(physics) A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate.
Process
A part of a running software program or other computing operation that does a single task.
Event
(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.
Process
See conk3.
Event
(probability theory) A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample space.
If 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: , , and .
Process
To put through the steps of a prescribed procedure
Processing newly arrived immigrants.
Process an order.
Event
(obsolete) An affair in hand; business; enterprise.
Process
To prepare, treat, or convert by subjecting to a special process
Process ore to obtain minerals.
Event
(medicine) An episode of severe health conditions.
Process
(Computers) To perform operations on (data).
Event
(obsolete) To occur, take place.
Process
To gain an understanding or acceptance of; come to terms with
Processed the traumatic event in therapy.
Event
To be emitted or breathed out; to evaporate.
Process
To straighten (hair) by a chemical process; conk.
Event
To expose to the air, ventilate.
Process
To move along in a procession
"The man in the panama hat offered his arm and ... they processed into the dining room" (Anita Brookner).
Event
That which comes, arrives, or happens; that which falls out; any incident, good or bad.
To watch quietly the course of events.
There is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked.
Process
Prepared or converted by a special process
Process cheese.
Event
An affair in hand; business; enterprise.
Process
Made by or used in any of several photomechanical or photoengraving processes
A process print.
Event
The consequence of anything; the issue; conclusion; result; that in which an action, operation, or series of operations, terminates.
Dark doubts between the promise and event.
Process
A series of events which produce a result (the product).
This product of last month's quality standards committee is quite good, even though the process was flawed.
Event
To break forth.
Process
(manufacturing) A set of procedures used to produce a product, most commonly in the food and chemical industries.
Event
Something that happens at a given place and time
Process
A path of succession of states through which a system passes.
Event
A special set of circumstances;
In that event, the first possibility is excluded
It may rain in which case the picnic will be canceled
Process
(anatomy) Successive physiological responses to keep or restore health.
Event
A phenomenon located at a single point in space-time; the fundamental observational entity in relativity theory
Process
(legal) Documents issued by a court in the course of a lawsuit or action at law, such as a summons, mandate, or writ.
Event
A phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon;
The magnetic effect was greater when the rod was lengthwise
His decision had depressing consequences for business
He acted very wise after the event
Process
(biology) An outgrowth of tissue or cell.
Process
(anatomy) A structure that arises above a surface.
Process
(computing) An executable task or program.
Process
The centre mark that players aim at in the game of squails.
Process
(transitive) To perform a particular process on a thing.
Process
(transitive) To retrieve, store, classify, manipulate, transmit etc. (data, signals, etc.), especially using computer techniques.
We have processed the data using our proven techniques, and have come to the following conclusions.
Process
To think about a piece of information, or a concept, in order to assimilate it, and perhaps accept it in a modified state.
I didn't know she had a criminal record. That will take me a while to process.
Process
To develop photographic film.
Process
To take legal proceedings against.
Process
To walk in a procession
Process
The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.
The thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.
Process
A series of actions, motions, or occurrences; progressive act or transaction; continuous operation; normal or actual course or procedure; regular proceeding; as, the process of vegetation or decomposition; a chemical process; processes of nature.
Tell her the process of Antonio's end.
Process
A statement of events; a narrative.
Process
Any marked prominence or projecting part, especially of a bone; anapophysis.
Process
The whole course of proceedings in a cause real or personal, civil or criminal, from the beginning to the end of the suit; strictly, the means used for bringing the defendant into court to answer to the action; - a generic term for writs of the class called judicial.
Process
A particular course of action intended to achieve a result;
The procedure of obtaining a driver's license
It was a process of trial and error
Process
A sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states;
Events now in process
The process of calcification begins later for boys than for girls
Process
(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents;
The process of thinking
The cognitive operation of remembering
Process
A writ issued by authority of law; usually compels the defendant's attendance in a civil suit; failure to appear results in a default judgment against the defendant
Process
A mental process that you are not directly aware of;
The process of denial
Process
A natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant;
A bony process
Process
Deal with in a routine way;
I'll handle that one
Process a loan
Process the applicants
Process
Subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition;
Process cheese
Process hair
Treat the water so it can be drunk
Treat the lawn with chemicals
Treat an oil spill
Process
Perform mathematical and logical operations on (data) according to programmed instructions in order to obtain the required information;
The results of the elections were still being processed when he gave his acceptance speech
Process
Institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against;
He was warned that the district attorney would process him
She actioned the company for discrimination
Process
Shape, form, or improve a material;
Work stone into tools
Process iron
Work the metal
Process
Deliver a warrant or summons to someone;
He was processed by the sheriff
Process
March in a procession;
They processed into the dining room
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