Affair vs. Event

Difference Between Affair and Event

Affairnoun

(often in the plural) Something which is done or is to be done; business of any kind, commercial, professional, or public.

a difficult affair to manage

Eventnoun

An occurrence; something that happens.

Affairnoun

Any proceeding or action which it is wished to refer to or characterize vaguely.

an affair of honor, a duel;an affair of love, an intrigue

Eventnoun

A prearranged social activity (function, etc.)

I went to an event in San Francisco last week.Where will the event be held?

Affairnoun

(military) An action or engagement not of sufficient magnitude to be called a battle.

Eventnoun

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

Affairnoun

A material object (vaguely designated).

He used a hook-shaped affair with a long handle to unlock the car.

Eventnoun

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

In the event, he turned out to have what I needed anyway.

Affairnoun

An adulterous relationship. (from affaire de cœur).

Eventnoun

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

Affairnoun

A romantic relationship with someone who is not one's regular partner (boyfriend, girlfriend).

Eventnoun

(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.

Affairnoun

A person with whom someone has an adulterous relationship.

Eventnoun

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

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 $X \isin \{1,3,5\}$ .