specific event

collocation in English

meanings of specificand event

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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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Examples of specific event

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No specificevent marks its emergence in the vocabulary applied to long-term care for older people.
Generally, identifying the causes of a specificevent involves creating chains of "cause and effect" relations.
Any given situation in the real world has a range of properties that a specificevent-denoting lexeme may or may not encode.
Either way, the specificevent may be recalled quite well as a conglomeration of general and specificevent knowledge.
Stressful life events overall, with some exceptions among specificevent types, pose a greater risk for depression among women compared to men.
Property changes over time are caused either by the natural passage of time or are triggered by specificevent occurrences.
Used in this function, the gerund is typically controlled, and it may refer to a specificevent.
However, we are not aware of any specificevent that might have affected polycythemia vera diagnosis or treatment between 1992 and 1995.
It marks a specificevent and allows for a transition.
In general terms, the natural expectations regarding different events in the world constitute the initial force which a specificevent confronts.
The struggle prompts some eloquent meditations on the 'total impossibility of locating a particular document that could throw light on a specificevent'.
It is also the first example of a specificevent linking the cytoskeleton to neutropenia.
From this comparison it emerges that the notion of role is inherently temporal; indeed roles are acquired and relinquished dependent on either time or a specificevent.
According to this theory, atypical and typical story events, when presented as part of a script (an organized package of actions for a specificevent), are remembered differently.
The results also show that, perhaps excepting serious financial problems, a specificevent is not likely to occur more than once over the 4-year period.
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