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# incident

«incident» in Mova's school dictionary: **something that happens, especially something unusual…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an incident, incidents)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An incident is something that happens, especially something unusual, unpleasant or dangerous. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incident/#m1)

2) (formal) An incident is used in police and news reports for a crime, accident or fight, sometimes as a softer word. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incident/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In school and safety texts an incident is any event to report: a fall, a fight, a fire alarm. Teachers write incident reports. Phrases: «report an incident», «without incident», «a minor incident».

### examples

- Please report any incident to a teacher. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incident/#x1)
- There was a small incident in the playground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incident/#x2)
- The trip went without incident. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incident/#x3)
- Police are investigating the incident. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incident/#x4)
- The incident book records every accident. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incident/#x5)
- There were 3 incidents on Monday and 5 on Tuesday; how many in all? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incident/#x6)
- Sometimes, however, a less familiar incident occurs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incident/#x7)

### note

Countable. Do not confuse with «accident» (unplanned harm) or «incidence» (how often something happens). Formal reports may use «incident» to soften something serious.

### In the corpora

- [The Rat: «No more of those regrettable incidents with the police».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/46-willows-ch6-part2-not-sorry-and-locked-up/34/)
- [Serious incidents like suspensions are written on a pupil's school record, which a new school can see.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/375-what-fights-cost-at-school/19/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «incident» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incident/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.