An incident refers to a particular happening, sometimes criminal but always noteworthy. If there was a food fight in the cafeteria, an e mail might be sent to the parents of all students telling of the incident at school.
Falling or striking upon, as a ray of light upon a reflecting surface.
Noun
a single distinct event
Noun
a public disturbance; "the police investigated an incident at the bus station"
Adjective
(sometimes followed by `to'') minor or casual or subordinate in significance or nature or occurring as a chance concomitant or consequence; "incidental expenses"; "the road will bring other incidental advantages"; "extra duties incidental to the job"; "la
Adjective
falling or striking on something
a.
Falling or striking upon, as a ray of light upon a
reflecting surface.
a.
Coming or happening accidentally; not in the usual course
of things; not in connection with the main design; not according to
expectation; casual; fortuitous.
a.
Liable to happen; apt to occur; befalling; hence,
naturally happening or appertaining.
a.
Dependent upon, or appertaining to, another thing, called
the principal.
n.
That which falls out or takes place; an event; casualty;
occurrence.
n.
That which happens aside from the main design; an
accidental or subordinate action or event.
n.
Something appertaining to, passing with, or depending on,
another, called the principal.
Incident
As the ordinary course of common affairs is disposed of by general laws, so likewise men's rarer incident necessities and utilities should be with special equity considered.3.
All chances incident to man's frail life.
The studies incident to his profession.4.
Incident
No person, no incident, in a play but must be of use to carry on the main design.3.
Falling or striking upon, as a ray of light upon a reflecting surface.
That which falls out or takes place; an event; casualty; occurrence.
Usage Examples
In the final analysis, the incident is seen as originating from an emotional expression of the frustration and anger of the proud people of China who had been subject to ever increasing oppression from without and decadent corruption from within.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
'Blind Curve,' the book I'm working on now, sprang from a crazy incident that happened to me last year while on my book tour. I was pulled out of my car for a minor traffic violation - an incident that escalated into my being thrown into cuffs and told I was going to jail. Except in my story, the hero doesn't get off as easily as I did.
What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.
What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian, a gun misfires and kills a bystander. Better to have some rational cause and effect between incident and injury. And if cause and effect aren't possible, better that there at least be some reward for all the suffering.
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Other Usage ExamplesThe agony of my feelings allowed me no respite no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.
The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known.
I have to say that in this particular cow that we're dealing with, those parts of the cow were removed, and so we don't think there's any risk or very negligible risk to human health with this particular incident.
The first one, obviously, was walking into my office at eight o'clock in the morning on Wednesday, and being told there was a telephone call saying that there was an incident at Three Mile Island, and that it had shut down and that beyond that we didn't know.
And at ten, or whatever time, in the morning we had the press conference, what we knew is there had been an incident at Three Mile Island, that it was shut down, that there was water that had escaped but it was contained.
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