HISTORY


Meaning of HISTORY in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a biology/history etc test

On Monday we had a French test.

a family history

Is there a family history of heart disease?

a French/geography/history etc class

I have a history class at nine o'clock today.

a history of failure (= a situation in which someone has failed many times in the past )

Some children have a history of failure at school.

a history/chemistry/law etc degree

I decided to do a Maths degree.

a history/physics/maths etc lesson

I've got a history lesson this afternoon.

a travel/history/sports etc writer (= someone who writes articles and books about a subject )

This region of Europe does not excite many travel writers.

an English/history/politics etc essay

He got a good grade for his English essay.

biology/history/French etc homework

The science homework was really hard.

biology/history/French etc professor

Who’s your chemistry professor?

case history

colourful history/past/career/life

Charlie Chaplin had a long and colorful career.

go down in history (= be remembered for many years )

The carnival will go down in history as one of the best ever.

language/history/science etc teacher

life history

local history

long history

a long history of success

medical history (= the illnesses they have had )

a patient’s medical history

modern history British English (= recent history, as a subject of study )

a degree in modern history

natural history

the Natural History Museum

secured...place in history

Redgrave won his third Olympic gold medal, and secured his place in history .

study law/business/history etc (= study a subject at a school or university )

Anna is studying French literature.

teach (sb) English/mathematics/history etc

He taught geography at the local secondary school.

the Biology/Maths/History etc department (= in a university or school )

the Chemistry department at Southampton University

the course of history/sb’s life etc

Changing conditions shape the course of evolution.

the history of mankind

one of the most important events in the history of mankind

the science/maths/history etc curriculum

The English curriculum is divided into Language and Literature.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

ancient

Its very imperfection is powerful testimony of its ancient history , a history of step-by-step change rather than of deliberate design.

I could see my father strumming the guitar, plucking our ancient , mournful history from the hollowness of its wooden frame.

For one thing, this is not ancient history .

But my tale of ancient history was less than a generation old.

It has been fashionable in the last twenty years to suggest that there was in ancient history a utopian matriarchy.

The world of Lowry's north seems to be ancient history .

That, too, seemed like ancient history now.

He was so beautiful in those days - listen to me, those days, talking like it was all ancient history .

brief

Their brief histories are shown in Appendix 7.

But for the first time in its brief , shining history , Apple had reason to worry.

The first section of his book gives a brief life history supported by a collection of his superb pencil sketches.

A brief history of Reinberto Lopez AlaIa suggests that it is not a question with a simple answer.

Indeed, the relatively brief history of information technology has already demonstrated the dangers of even short-term forecasting.

A brief history prepared by the Education Coalition, a lobbying group, says California began statewide testing in 1962.

Unlike the previous two, this film attempts to convey the nature of the fighting within a brief history of the war.

early

Search them out if you wish to increase your understanding of early New Zealand history .

This feature was particularly emphasized in the early history of the Roman rite.

It is almost certain that, during the Earth's early history , the planet was a frequent victim of cometary impacts.

In a sense the Earth was reborn without leaving a trace of its early history .

Sold to the museum by the New York conservator Mario Modestini, its early history is completely unknown.

The earliest history of the use of pearls is difficult to establish.

All the paintings were purchased through Christie's at some point in their early history .

The luminosity of the Sun in the early history of the Solar System was probably only about 70% of the present value.

economic

He was reading a book on political and economic history .

So this is how economic history restarts.

There are, of course, many links and parallels between economic history and the development of the government and social institutions.

Early modern history: Political, economic and social history and the history of science.

Ageing and the elderly; Economic history .

Social and economic history and demography have a key role in guiding policy-making beyond crisis responses towards fundamental medium- and long-run issues.

human

This world is his world. Human history is the outworking of his plan.

Rarely in the annals of human history has any people committed so much of its treasure to such a noble cause.

The old religions under which people lived for ninety-nine point nine percent of human history have decayed or are irrelevant.

We also know that recorded human history extends back only some six thousand years.

In 1937, she had felt she had had enough of the pernicious course of human history .

Periods of punctuated equilibrium are equally visible in human history .

There has been nothing like it in human history .

During most of human history , this fundamental information came most of all from agriculture.

local

Sources for local history Document sources are indispensible for most local history studies.

Only a year, more frequently one portion of a year, is given to local history , geography, or law.

This is not criticism as it is necessary when writing local history to use previous writers.

So will the lives of other fascinating but lesser-known individuals who together form the fabric of local gay history .

Nearby is the Heritage Museum of local history and the Wildfowl Trust bird sanctuary.

Some areas may provide a rich vein of local history which is also well related to a supplementary unit.

Their specific and local histories , often threatened and repressed, are inserted ` between the lines' of dominant cultural practices.

long

Incubation has of course a long and reputable history in antiquity.

The Penguins are in the midst of an eight-game road trip-the longest in franchise history .

The use of official statistics, for example, has a long history in many of the social sciences.

Visiting the megaliths, especially the circles, grounds us in the long and mysterious history of humanity.

Start2 builds on a long history of arms accords and summits between Moscow and Washington.

This concern about the calibre of councillors has a long history .

However, the interest of neurophysiologists has a considerably longer history .

There is, after all, a long history of wife-beating and of genocide, but that does not make them excusable.

medical

They are expected to take a full medical history and perform a physical examination.

Between us we had even hired a video so that we could record this minor miracle of medical history for posterity.

The past medical history was otherwise unremarkable.

Flett, an Orcadian, had taken medical and natural history degrees at Edinburgh, having studied geology under J. Geikie.

Here a check is kept on weight; blood and urine tests are carried out; and relevant medical history is noted.

His new employer can get his medical history from the insurance company, and his credit history from a credit bureau.

Perhaps most importantly, the computer interface greatly facilitates both obtaining and recording a complete medical history .

Comorbidity was categorised as mild, moderate, or severe by a physician based on the patient's medical history .

modern

He was educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Oxford, where he obtained a second class in modern history in 1911.

And in 1951 Great Britain, for the first time in modern history , made leprosy a reportable disease.

He is an extraordinary figure in modern world history , and in William Duiker he has a worthy biographer.

This may have been the first time in modern history that a painting incited people to such public agitation.

Early modern history: Political, economic and social history and the history of science.

The rest is miserable modern history .

They left Oxford in 1921, with seconds in modern history , and shared a flat in London while establishing parallel careers.

natural

The historical theme extends to cover local canals, bridges, floods, natural history and archaeology.

Myth is nothing but natural history , plus human history, in time-disguised and faith-distorted form.

What is striking about natural history illustrations is sometimes their longevity.

But more important than these human aspects is the virtually untarnished natural history of the refuge.

Curiously enough, she had never seen a newt before. Natural history was not her strong point.

We walked toward the natural history museum.-What happened between you and Jessica, Brice? he asked.

Her passion for natural history became increasingly fashionable in polite society during the 17605.

For the rest of the time, we talked only of natural history and local gossip, and got on very well.

political

It is an approach that has informed political actions and hence the political history of the country.

Nixon has been subjected to as much psychoanalytic study as any political figure in history .

Whatever the cause, the solution was to have major consequences in terms of the later political history of the Merovingians.

Bit by little bit, our talking, our weeping, and our anger added up to an emotional and political history .

More social history is being taught but examination syllabuses still focus on political and economic history which conventionally excludes women.

I figure this will either be the shortest political career in history or the job for the rest of my life.

Again, this is where sculpture is closely aligned to social and political history .

Morris presents it all as a revelation, a historic breakthrough in political history .

recent

Cultural predisposition Recognition that cultural pressures on women to diet contribute to anorexia nervosa has had a fairly recent history .

At this point, Camp David looks like one of the great diplomatic miscalculations of recent history .

For the 1970s and 1980s generations of graduate embroiderers, a recent history and a widened definition of embroidery/stitch now exists.

This is where the recent history of law's withdrawal from the regulation of private morality provides a useful perspective.

Little by little I learned Leslie's recent military history .

Such ambiguities, of course, are not peculiar to recent history .

It seems reasonable to suppose that even before 1790 he would have learned to appreciate their attitudes towards recent history .

Knowledge of recent political history may enable you to correct these generalisations to some extent.

social

The collection is based on social history .

The former, sublimely illustrated, describes the social history and psychological underpinnings of our underpinnings.

Why was evacuation such an important episode in the social history of the Second World War?

On the economic and social history of the period its influence was also enormous.

It was one of those moments when we can actually see whole new groups of people just walking into social history .

Business and labour history; Social history Social historians tend to support the view that industrialisation destroyed the apprenticeship system.

■ NOUN

art

And that is when it becomes art history .

A new hierarchy, sustained by art history , will be imposed through the photograph.

He qualified as an electronics engineer before going to teachers' training college after which he obtained a degree in art history .

Even students in art history and philosophy are getting hired by management consultants, Sanborn said.

She specialised in art history and education and her studies took her to Paris and Florence.

Traditional art history would include Bonnard for his technical innovations and largely marginalise Rodchenko for his politics and photography.

Hence, interest was slight and sporadic, and the works were not assimilated into mainstream western art history .

By the postwar period, modernism had become part of art history .

books

Duval is the one taking aim at the history books , four or more in a row.

A flick through the history books reveals the story of Atalantas, after whom her club is named.

Moms have always worked, but it was a big secret left out of the history books .

The first pictorial record of flowers from a sixteenth-century garden marks the highlight of this sale of travel and natural history books .

Indeed, the 1996 campaign season is headed for the history books as the most costly in history.

And with Twickenham hosting the final, the 2001 winners are poised to enter the history books .

Democrats want a convention for the history books .

case

Outline case histories will be built up concerning many thousands of individual victims.

To address such concerns, chapter 3 starts with two case histories from my own leadership experiences.

A case history will illustrate what I mean.

However, the so-called case histories which they composed with such artistic aplomb prove nothing.

They were to figure prominently among the more tragic case histories .

The network would be trained to associate symptoms and diagnoses from a database of case histories .

Cathy Troupp was talking to a specialist couple counsellor about this month's case history .

The system was trained on more than 10, 000 credit case histories .

family

Bowel cancer About one in ten people with bowel cancer have a family history of the disease.

Associated vomiting and photophobia. 4. Family history of migraine.

I should like to pay tribute to the care with which the justices record the family history and the chronology.

Is there a family history of tremor?

Perhaps he should stay with his family history and forget anything else.

Furthermore, they are unlikely to find their complete family history ready to be downloaded at the click of a mouse.

He has neglected his duties writing that damned family history and leaving Tim Skerritt to manage the estate.

Given their family histories , turmoil feels comfortable.

life

The first section of his book gives a brief life history supported by a collection of his superb pencil sketches.

The main emphasis of Hume's book is the inter-relationships between nutrition, reproductive performance and life histories of marsupials.

But events in one's life history could change this.

The teacher could begin with the child's own brief life history , moving on to the history of their family.

The third consequence of a bottlenecked life history is a genetic one.

A good example are the reminiscence and life history projects now active in many areas of the country.

professor

A military history professor is retiring.

Actually, Wilson had suffered a series of strokes, starting at age thirty-nine when he was a history professor at Princeton.

A history professor at Baghdad University, Sadoun Fadil, said people rally around their leader during hard times.

He was going to bury himself in a library for a few years, then become a history professor .

teacher

Before turning to the individual arguments for teaching history it would be worthwhile emphasising the professional integrity of history teachers .

Another teacher who moved me was an assistant principal named Cho, who doubled as a history teacher.

I had a history teacher in college who was tough and sharp.

My history teacher , who was a liberal, joked about such attitudes and I followed her cue.

As a matter of fact, her plan was to become a high-school history teacher .

Unusually, he is not an investment analyst, but a former history teacher .

Bill supported the family as a high-school history teacher .

■ VERB

record

I should like to pay tribute to the care with which the justices record the family history and the chronology.

These few lucky observers had witnessed the most spectacular meteor shower in recorded history , surpassing even the 1833 Leonids.

If women criminals are reluctant to publicise their activities, they are also often inaccessible to researchers wanting to record their histories .

No lunar atmosphere or hydrosphere exists, nor has any existed for its entire span of recorded history .

Trails of electric light icicles hang from gutters in Miami and Honolulu, where it has never snowed in recorded history .

It is intended to record history and those who were part of it.

Within recorded history goose numbers have never been greater.

When the first Raikas were created in this world, so was my family to record their history .

study

It goes back more than 200 years and forms an enormous resource for those studying the history of the Commonwealth.

You study the history of religions, comparative religion, the scriptures of the world, maybe the psychology of religion.

If it is vocationally disadvantageous to study history at school, it must be vocationally suicidal to study the subject at university.

What had I really learned from studying history and psychology and philosophy and literature?

Well, one gets a bit tired of studying ancient history .

Many overseas students come to study the languages, history , culture and traditions of this country.

As Figure 1.3 shows, those who study history are eminently trainable for a wide variety of occupations.

teach

Limbaugh is complaining about the teaching of history .

Moving from research to teaching history is like moving from one watercourse to another...

Old people are often a source of fascinating information and opinion about the past that young people are being taught as history !

For the next few years, Sister Teresa taught geography, history and catechism, and performed several other duties besides.

My brief was to teach art and history of art to all age groups.

He had taught history of some kind, although Glover never bothered in forty-five years to find out what kind.

Some teachers might even choose to teach the entire history syllabus by working backwards from the present.

I teach history at the high school and junior high school levels.

write

You see, when you win the National, you write your name into history .

His name has been written in the history books.

The history of art, he wrote , is the history of dead-ends transformed into springboards.

Passing over in silence what the people think of the imam is a priority in that writing of history .

He has neglected his duties writing that damned family history and leaving Tim Skerritt to manage the estate.

The redaction critics claim: It is important to realise that the Gospel writers were not writing history as we understand it.

And how incredibly generous this man was; he seeded friendships that still write the history of the West.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a page in history

ancient history

Will and I broke up a long time ago - that's ancient history now.

But my tale of ancient history was less than a generation old.

For one thing, this is not ancient history.

He was so beautiful in those days - listen to me, those days, talking like it was all ancient history.

He was very fond of ancient histories, stories and epics of earlier times and heroes.

It has been fashionable in the last twenty years to suggest that there was in ancient history a utopian matriarchy.

Its very imperfection is powerful testimony of its ancient history, a history of step-by-step change rather than of deliberate design.

That, too, seemed like ancient history now.

The world of Lowry's north seems to be ancient history.

be steeped in history/tradition/politics etc

Both are clifftop courses that are steeped in history.

The area is steeped in history.

The Hotel has great character and is steeped in history.

They brought with them a heritage and culture that is steeped in history and literature.

have a checkered history/career/past etc

potted history/biography/version

Keeping a job file Your employer will have a personnel file containing a potted history of your career with the company.

Martin's potted history of each railway is certainly sufficiently detailed to whet the appetite enough to free buttocks from armchair Dralon.

They were farcically satirical potted biographies in sets of two rhyming couplets.

Woven into these personal accounts are potted histories of disturbing events, ancient and modern.

the march of time/history/progress etc

At present these are banned, as are crossbows, but will these eventually be admitted with the march of progress?

But in 1874-not ten years earlier or later-city and nation endured a painful pause in the march of progress.

Like Franco, Arrese was trying to hold back the march of history.

New discoveries have opened up all kinds of possibilities for holding back the march of time.

They succeeded because they brought hope to the losers whom the march of progress had left behind.

This little community is still in existence, largely untouched by the march of time.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a history of World War II

a book about the history of the United Nations

I got an 84 on my history test.

India has been invaded several times in its history .

the history of jazz music

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

For decompression sickness, your dive history is available in graphic detail for hyperbaric specialists to consult.

In this most settled and prosperous nation in history the political situation is almost permanently unstable.

Our history is too full of pain and outrage to want any of it back.

The history of life, he argued, could have followed all sorts of paths.

The Moon experienced only a brief period of intense internal activity early in its history .

What the lie was, I had too little knowledge of history or science to know then.

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