fervent

adj 1: characterized by intense emotion; "ardent love"; "an ardent

lover"; "a burning enthusiasm"; "a fervent desire to

change society"; "a fervent admirer"; "fiery oratory";

"an impassioned appeal"; "a torrid love affair" [syn:

{ardent}, {burning(a)}, {fervid}, {fiery}, {impassioned},

{perfervid}, {torrid}]

2: sincerely or intensely felt; "a cordial regard for his

visitor's comfort"; "a cordial abhorrence of waste"; "a

fervent hope" [syn: {cordial}]

3: extremely hot; "the fervent heat...merely communicated a

genial warmth to their half-torpid systems"- Nathaniel

Hawthorne; "set out...when the fervid heat subsides"-

Frances Trollope [syn: {fervid}]

event

1. An occurrence or happening of significance to a

task or program, such as the completion of an asynchronous

input/output operation. A task may wait for an event or any

of a set of events or it may (request to) receive asynchronous

notification (a {signal} or {interrupt}) that the event has

occurred.

See also {event-driven}.

2. A transaction or other activity that affects the

records in a file.

(2000-02-09)