Eventing

Quick meaning: Eventing is a noun meaning An equestrian event which comprises dressage, cross-country, and showjumping; a similar event using motor cars.

Meaning

An equestrian event which comprises dressage, cross-country, and showjumping; a similar event using motor cars.

More Meanings

1. (computing) The ability of one system or part of a program to send notifications to another, by raising events.
2. (social sciences, rare) The occurrence of an event.
3. (obsolete) present participle and gerund of event

Example Sentences

Chiacchia had to relearn the basics of walking and tying his shoes, but is now back competing in eventing.

The corollary of this, as Whorf points out, is that thinkings and feelings to do with 'eventings' in the world are located there, out in the world in which the eventing takes place - as a natural part of the whole into which they are interwoven.

The concept behind eventing is fairly simple. With eventing, you have two pieces of code. For example, you might have a script that is running based on a scheduled task. That script might encounter some condition and can raise (or signal) an event, perhaps that it has completed its work. A second bit of code, perhaps a second script running on that same system, can register for events.

Word Forms

• eventings

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include case, eventer, equestrianship, horseriding, showjumping, equestrianism.

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