ALL meanings of history
his·to·ry
H h - noun history past events, ways of life 1
- noun history the study of the past 1
- noun history account of the past 1
- noun history person's interesting past 1
- noun history precedents 1
- noun history theater: play 1
- noun history sb or sth that no longer counts 1
- noun plural history the branch of knowledge dealing with past events. 1
- noun plural history a continuous, systematic narrative of past events as relating to a particular people, country, period, person, etc., usually written as a chronological account; chronicle: a history of France; a medical history of the patient. 1
- noun plural history the aggregate of past events. 1
- noun plural history the record of past events and times, especially in connection with the human race. 1
- noun plural history a past notable for its important, unusual, or interesting events: a ship with a history. 1
- noun plural history acts, ideas, or events that will or can shape the course of the future; immediate but significant happenings: Firsthand observers of our space program see history in the making. 1
- noun plural history a systematic account of any set of natural phenomena without particular reference to time: a history of the American eagle. 1
- noun plural history a drama representing historical events: Shakespeare's comedies, histories, and tragedies. 1
- noun Definition of history in Technology 1. (history) Virginia Tech history of computing. IT Rentals computing timeline. 2. (operating system) 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. 3. The history of the world was once discussed in Usenet newsgroups news:soc.history and news:alt.history. 1
- noun history The study of past events, particularly in human affairs. 1
- noun history The branch of knowledge that studies the past; the assessment of notable events. 0
- noun history (Countable Noun) A set of events involving an entity. 0
- noun history (Countable Noun) A record or narrative description of past events. 0
- noun history (Countable Noun) (medicine) A list of past and continuing medical conditions of an individual or family. 0
- noun history (Countable Noun) (computing) A record of previous user events, especially of visited web pages in a browser. 0
- noun history (Informal) Something that no longer exists or is no longer relevant. 0
- noun history (Uncountable Noun) Shared experience or interaction. 0
- verb history (Obsolete (No longer in use)) To narrate or record. 0
- uncountable noun history You can refer to the events of the past as history. You can also refer to the past events which concern a particular topic or place as its history. 0
- uncountable noun history History is a subject studied in schools, colleges, and universities that deals with events that have happened in the past. 0
- countable noun history A history is an account of events that have happened in the past. 0
- countable noun history If a person or a place has a history of something, it has been very common or has happened frequently in their past. 0
- countable noun history Someone's history is the set of facts that are known about their past. 0
- uncountable noun history If you say that an event, thing, or person is history, you mean that they are no longer important. 0
- noun history a record or account, often chronological in approach, of past events, developments, etc 0
- noun history (as modifier) 0
- noun history all that is preserved or remembered of the past, esp in written form 0
- noun history the discipline of recording and interpreting past events involving human beings 0
- noun history past events, esp when considered as an aggregate 0
- noun history an event in the past, esp one that has been forgotten or reduced in importance 0
- noun history the past, background, previous experiences, etc, of a thing or person 0
- noun history a stored list of the websites that a user has recently visited 0
- noun history a play that depicts or is based on historical events 0
- noun history a narrative relating the events of a character's life 0
- noun history an account of what has or might have happened, esp. in the form of a narrative, play, story, or tale 0
- noun history what has happened in the life or development of a people, country, institution, etc. 0
- noun history a systematic account of this, usually in chronological order with an analysis and explanation 0
- noun history all recorded events of the past 0
- noun history the branch of knowledge that deals systematically with the past; a recording, analyzing, correlating, and explaining of past events 0
- noun history a known or recorded past 0
- noun history something that belongs to the past 0
- noun history someone or something regarded as no longer important, relevant, useful, etc. 0
- noun history something important enough to be recorded 0