The difference between History and Story
When used as nouns, history means the aggregate of past events, whereas story means a sequence of real or fictional events.
When used as verbs, history means to narrate or record, whereas story means to tell as a story.
check bellow for the other definitions of History and Story
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History as a noun:
The aggregate of past events.
Examples:
"'History repeats itself if we don’t learn from its mistakes."
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History as a noun:
The branch of knowledge that studies the past; the assessment of notable events.
Examples:
"He teaches history at the university. History will not look kindly on these tyrants. He dreams of an invention that will make history."
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History as a noun (countable):
A set of events involving an entity.
Examples:
"What is your medical history? The family's history includes events best forgotten."
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History as a noun (countable):
A record or narrative description of past events.
Examples:
"I really enjoyed Shakespeare's tragedies more than his histories."
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History as a noun (countable, medicine):
A list of past and continuing medical conditions of an individual or family.
Examples:
"A personal medical history is required for the insurance policy. He has a history of cancer in his family."
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History as a noun (countable, computing):
A record of previous user events, especially of visited web pages in a browser.
Examples:
"I visited a great site yesterday but forgot the URL. Luckily, I didn't clear my history."
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History as a noun (informal):
Something that no longer exists or is no longer relevant.
Examples:
"I told him that if he doesn't get his act together, he's history."
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History as a noun (uncountable):
Shared experience or interaction.
Examples:
"There is too much history between them for them to split up now."
"He has had a lot of history with the police."
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History as a verb (obsolete):
To narrate or record.
Examples:
"rfquotek Shakespeare"
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Story as a noun:
A sequence of real or fictional events; or, an account of such a sequence.
Examples:
"The book tells the story of two roommates."
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Story as a noun:
A lie, fiction.
Examples:
"You’ve been telling stories again, haven’t you?"
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Story as a noun (US, colloquial, usually pluralized):
A soap opera.
Examples:
"What will she do without being able to watch her stories?"
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Story as a noun (obsolete):
History.
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Story as a noun:
A sequence of events, or a situation, such as might be related in an account.
Examples:
"What's the story with him?"
"I tried it again; same story, no error message, nothing happened."
"The images it captured help tell a story of extreme loss: 25 percent of its ice and four of its 19 glaciers have disappeared since 1957. [[File:The images it captured help tell a story.ogg]]"
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Story as a noun (Internet, {{w, Snapchat):
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Story as a verb:
To tell as a story; to relate or narrate about.
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Story as a noun (obsolete):
A building or edifice.
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Story as a noun (chiefly, _, US):
A floor or level of a building; a storey.
Examples:
"synonyms: floor level"
"Our shop was on the fourth story of the building, so we had to install an elevator."
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Story as a noun (typography):