The difference between History and Tale
When used as nouns, history means the aggregate of past events, whereas tale means number.
When used as verbs, history means to narrate or record, whereas tale means to speak.
check bellow for the other definitions of History and Tale
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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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Tale as a noun (obsolete):
Number; tally; quota.
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Tale as a noun (obsolete):
Account; estimation; regard; heed.
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Tale as a noun (obsolete):
Speech; language.
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Tale as a noun (obsolete):
A speech; a statement; talk; conversation; discourse.
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Tale as a noun (legal, obsolete):
A count; declaration.
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Tale as a noun (rare, or, archaic):
Numbering; enumeration; reckoning; account; count.
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Tale as a noun (rare, or, archaic):
A number of things considered as an aggregate; sum.
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Tale as a noun (rare, or, archaic):
A report of any matter; a relation; a version.
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Tale as a noun:
An account of an asserted fact or circumstance; a rumour; a report, especially an idle or malicious story; a piece of gossip or slander; a lie.
Examples:
"Don't tell tales!"
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Tale as a noun:
A rehearsal of what has occurred; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story.
Examples:
"the Canterbury Tales'"
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Tale as a noun:
A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration.
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Tale as a noun (slang):
The fraudulent opportunity presented by a confidence man to the mark (sense 3.3) of a confidence game.
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Tale as a verb (dialectal, or, obsolete):
To speak; discourse; tell tales.
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Tale as a verb (dialectal, chiefly, Scotland):
To reckon; consider (someone) to have something.
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Tale as a noun: