<noun.time> a critical time in the school's history
a record or narrative description of past events
<noun.communication> a history of France he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president the story of exposure to lead
the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings
<noun.cognition> 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
<noun.time> all of human history
all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge
<noun.cognition> the dawn of recorded history from the beginning of history
History \His"to*ry\, 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[ae]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.
History \His"to*ry\, v. t. To narrate or record. [Obs.] --Shak.
The death of the dinosaurs actually is the more significant trend, argues Robert Sobel, a professor of business history at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y.
"Never before in the history of American criminal law has a court granted the prosecution such a one-sided bonanza of information about the defense case," lawyers Brendan V. Sullivan Jr. and Barry S. Simon said in the pleading filed Monday.
"The present acceleration of history is one in which the partnership is being put to a test," he said, adding that the two nations would pass the test because of their common interests and U.S. goodwill.
There is a shortage of clinics, hospitals and classrooms; two years ago, Benitez said, he quit his job teaching high school history because of unruly students.
Stories about heroes were a frequent choice, along with history books.
The nation's largest oil company fired the tanker's skipper after saying tests showed he was legally drunk but faced a torrent of criticism for its slow reaction to the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
His policy of glasnost, or greater openness, has encouraged more open public debate and a wide-ranging re-evaluation of Soviet history and future prospects.
"That constitutes the largest operating budget in the history of the National Park Service and represents 29 percent post-inflation, real growth over the past seven years," Horn said.
"The history of successful economic reforms shows that as a rule all of them were carried out with the involvement of significant volumes of foreign assistance," Mr. Yavlinsky said in his report.
The opposition made a strong comeback in legislative elections in April, stripping the governing party of its parliamentary majority for the first time in South Korea's 40-year history.
The liftoff opportunity, dictated by Magellan's path to Venus and lighting conditions at emergency landing sites, lasts only 23 minutes, one of the shortest launch windows in shuttle history.
Another is history: Jackson, who has found support from whites elusive, did his best on that score in his 1984 campaign with California whites.
In the house, there is a staircase that is an architectural tour de force and the whole interior of the chapel is a decorative triumph. The recent history of Wardour has not been entirely happy.
No other society in history has done as much to advance a repressed racial minority.
Postmaster General Anthony M. Frank says he is optimistic about the future, despite the fact that the post office is preparing to raise rates as it faces the largest dollar loss in postal history.
But then so have most governments been in the history of the world, except for those that have been third-rate or diabolical.
Gencor has announced its R2bn rights offer, the largest in the country's history, has been priced at a 14.5 per cent discount to the market price.
Ronald Lauder has spent $8.5 million so far in his quest to become mayor, more than any mayoral candidate in New York history, according to a report.
Mr Sharif had been seeking to remove the presidential powers which Mr Khan used to dismiss him, as well to eject Ms Bhutto's government in 1990. Mr Sharif described the judgment as an important milestone in Pakistan's history.
The only faster knockouts in heavyweight title history were Jim Jeffries' 55-second victory over Jack Finnegin in 1900, Michael Dokes' 1:03 win over Mike Weaver in 1982 and Tommy Burns' 1:28 defeat of Jem Roche in 1908.
The great drought rally of 1988 is history, just a big blip on a long chart.
"We are truly seeing history in the making," said Commission Chairman Malcolm Kirschenbaum in Orlando last week.
For the first time in its 100-year history, Amoco plans to spend more money in 1989 searching for oil and gas abroad than in the United States.
In seeking a reason, Sir Denys turns again to history.
She requests details of my job history, which I provide. 'The fact you went for journalism suggests it,' she says.
Since George Bush and I put our economic policies in place, we've witnessed the longest peacetime expansion in American history, an expansion that has created over 17.5 million jobs.
"The history of it is that men have exercised traditional control over the activities of women, and I'm not going to ignore that, no matter how much flak I get from women's lib," U.S. District Judge A. Andrew Hauk said Tuesday.
The subtlest anti-hero of the month is Beatty as Bugsy Siegel in Barry Levinson's gloriously sweet-and-sour gangster history about the man who made Las Vegas.
It is the first time in church history for 117 to be elevated at one time, he said.
As that happens, though, we expect that history will see the entire episode as a turning point in the development of our publications, of Singapore and of the freedom of information in an internationally wired and increasingly interdependent world.