specific event
collocation in Englishmeaningsofspecificandevent
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specific
adjective
uk/spəˈsɪf.ɪk/us/spəˈsɪf.ɪk/
relating to one thing and not ...
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event
noun[C]
uk/ɪˈvent/us/ɪˈvent/
anything that happens, especially something important ...
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(Definition ofspecificandeventfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofspecific event
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Nospecificeventmarks its emergence in the vocabulary applied to long-term care for older people.
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Generally, identifying the causes of aspecificeventinvolves creating chains of "cause and effect" relations.
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Any given situation in the real world has a range of properties that aspecificevent-denoting lexeme may or may not encode.
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Either way, thespecificeventmay be recalled quite well as a conglomeration of general andspecificeventknowledge.
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Stressful life events overall, with some exceptions amongspecificeventtypes, pose a greater risk for depression among women compared to men.
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Property changes over time are caused either by the natural passage of time or are triggered byspecificeventoccurrences.
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Used in this function, the gerund is typically controlled, and it may refer to aspecificevent.
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However, we are not aware of anyspecificeventthat might have affected polycythemia vera diagnosis or treatment between 1992 and 1995.
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It marks aspecificeventand allows for a transition.
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In general terms, the natural expectations regarding different events in the world constitute the initial force which aspecificeventconfronts.
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The struggle prompts some eloquent meditations on the 'total impossibility of locating a particular document that could throw light on aspecificevent'.
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It is also the first example of aspecificeventlinking the cytoskeleton to neutropenia.
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From this comparison it emerges that the notion of role is inherently temporal; indeed roles are acquired and relinquished dependent on either time or aspecificevent.
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According to this theory, atypical and typical story events, when presented as part of a script (an organized package of actions for aspecificevent), are remembered differently.
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The results also show that, perhaps excepting serious financial problems, aspecificeventis not likely to occur more than once over the 4-year period.
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