incident vs infection

infection vs incident

incident and infection both are nouns.

incident is an adjective but infection is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
incident	Yes	Yes	No	No
infection	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, infection is a hyponym of incident; that is, infection is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than incident:

incident: a single distinct event
infection: an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted

Other hyponyms of incident include cause celebre, contagion, transmission, scene, sideshow.

incident (noun)	infection (noun)
a single distinct event	moral corruption or contamination
a public disturbance	(international law) illegality that taints or contaminates a ship or cargo rendering it liable to seizure
	the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people
	an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted
	(medicine) the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms and their multiplication which can lead to tissue damage and disease
	(phonetics) the alteration of a speech sound under the influence of a neighboring sound
	the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms

incident (adjective)	infection (adjective)
(sometimes followed by `to') minor or casual or subordinate in significance or nature or occurring as a chance concomitant or consequence
falling or striking of light rays on something

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