story

n 1: an account describing incidents or events; "after dinner he

told the children stories of his adventures" [syn: {narration},

{narrative}, {tale}, {yarn}, {recital}]

2: a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events;

"he writes stories for the magazines"

3: a room or set of rooms comprising a single level of a

multi-level building; "what level is the office on?" [syn:

{floor}, {level}, {storey}]

4: 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" [syn:

{history}, {account}, {chronicle}]

5: a short account of the news; "the report of his speech";

"the story was on the 11 o'clock news"; "the account of

his speech that was given on the evening news made the

governor furious" [syn: {report}, {news report}, {account},

{write up}]

6: a trivial lie; "he told a fib about eating his spinach";

"how can I stop my child from telling stories?" [syn: {fib},

{tale}, {tarradiddle}, {taradiddle}]

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)