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English Dictionary: history	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for history
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
history n the aggregate of past events; "a critical time in the school's history" a record or narrative description of past events; "a history of France"; "he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president"; "the story of exposure to lead" Synonym(s): history, account, chronicle, story the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings; "he teaches Medieval history"; "history takes the long view" the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future; "all of human history" all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge; "the dawn of recorded history"; "from the beginning of history"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
History \His"tory\, n.; pl. {Histories}. [L. historia, Gr. 'istori`a history, information, inquiry, fr. 'istwr, "istwr, knowing, learned, from the root of [?] to know; akin to E. wit. See {Wit}, and cf. {Story}.] 1. A learning or knowing by inquiry; the knowledge of facts and events, so obtained; hence, a formal statement of such information; a narrative; a description; a written record; as, the history* of a patient's case; the history of a legislative bill. 2. A systematic, written account of events, particularly of those affecting a nation, institution, science, or art, and usually connected with a philosophical explanation of their causes; a true story, as distinguished from a romance; -- distinguished also from annals, which relate simply the facts and events of each year, in strict chronological order; from biography, which is the record of an individual's life; and from memoir, which is history composed from personal experience, observation, and memory. Histories are as perfect as the historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul. --Carlyle. For aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history. --Shak. What histories of toil could I declare! --Pope. {History piece}, a representation in painting, drawing, etc., of any real event, including the actors and the action. {Natural history}, a description and classification of objects in nature, as minerals, plants, animals, etc., and the phenomena which they exhibit to the senses. Syn: Chronicle; annals; relation; narration. Usage: {History}, {Chronicle}, {Annals}. History is a methodical record of important events which concern a community of men, usually so arranged as to show the connection of causes and effects, to give an analysis of motive and action etc. A chronicle is a record of such events, conforming to the order of time as its distinctive feature. Annals are a chronicle divided up into separate years. By poetic license annals is sometimes used for history. Justly C[91]sar scorns the poet's lays; It is to history he trusts for praise. --Pope. No more yet of this; For 't is a chronicle of day by day, Not a relation for a breakfast. --Shak. Many glorious examples in the annals of our religion. --Rogers.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
History \His"to*ry\, v. t. To narrate or record. [Obs.] --Shak.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
history 1. A record of previous user inputs (e.g. to a {command interpreter}) which can be re-entered without re-typing them. The major improvement of the {C shell} (csh) over the {Bourne shell} (sh) was the addition of a command history. This was still inferior to the history mechanism on {VMS} which allowed you to recall previous commands as the current input line. You could then edit the command using cursor motion, insert and delete. These sort of history editing facilities are available under {tcsh} and {GNU Emacs}. 2. {The history of computing (http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/index.html)}. 3. See {Usenet} newsgroups {news:soc.history} and {news:alt.history} for discussion of the history of the world. (1995-04-05)