Definition of Incident

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Incident

Falling or striking upon, as a ray of light upon a reflecting surface.

Coming or happening accidentally; not in the usual course of things; not in connection with the main design; not according to expectation; casual; fortuitous.

Liable to happen; apt to occur; befalling; hence, naturally happening or appertaining.

Dependent upon, or appertaining to, another thing, called the principal.

That which falls out or takes place; an event; casualty; occurrence.

That which happens aside from the main design; an accidental or subordinate action or event.

Something appertaining to, passing with, or depending on, another, called the principal.

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Incident Quotations

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.
Dale Carnegie

The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
Henry James

My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.
Hans Christian Andersen

The causes of the China Incident were the exclusion and insult of Japan throughout China, the exclusion of Japanese goods, the persecution of Japanese residents in China, and the illegal violation of Japanese rights.
Hideki Tojo

It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.
Elizabeth I

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.
Chen Ning Yang

I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.
O. J. Simpson

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.
Tracey Emin

Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth.
Jessica Savitch

Incident Translations

incident in German is Vorfall, Ereignis, Ereignis, Zwischenfall
incident in Norwegian is episode, hendelse, innfallende
incident in Spanish is incidencia

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