different between history vs process

English

Alternative forms

• historie (obsolete)
• hystory (nonstandard)
• hystorie (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English historie, from Old French estoire, estorie (“chronicle, history, story”) (French histoire), from Latin historia, from Ancient Greek ??????? (historí?, “learning through research”), from ??????? (historé?, “to research, inquire (and) record”), from ????? (híst?r, “the knowing, wise one”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“see, know”). Doublet of story and storey.

Attested in Middle English in 1393 by John Gower, Confessio Amantis, which was aimed at an educated audience familiar with French and Latin.

Pronunciation

• enPR: h?s?t(?)r?, h?s?tr?, IPA^(key): /?h?st(?)?i/, /?h?st(?)??/
• Hyphenation: his?to?ry, hist?ory

Noun

history (countable and uncountable, plural histories)

1. The aggregate of past events.

   Synonyms: background, past

2. The branch of knowledge that studies the past; the assessment of notable events.

3. (countable) A set of events involving an entity.
4. (countable) A record or narrative description of past events.

   Synonyms: account, chronicle, story, tale

5. (countable, medicine) A list of past and continuing medical conditions of an individual or family.

   Synonym: medical history

6. (countable, computing) A record of previous user events, especially of visited web pages in a browser.

   Synonym: log
7. (informal) Something that no longer exists or is no longer relevant.

8. (uncountable) Shared experience or interaction.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Pitcairn-Norfolk: histrei

Translations

Verb

history (third-person singular simple present histories, present participle historying, simple past and past participle historied)

1. (obsolete) To narrate or record.

References

Further reading

• history on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• history at OneLook Dictionary Search
• history in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• "history" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 146.
• history in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Toryish, Troyish, roytish

Middle English

Noun

history

1. Alternative form of historie

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French procés (“journey”), from Latin pr?cessus, from pr?c?d?.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p???s?s/
• (General American) enPR: pr??s?s, IPA^(key): /?p??s?s/
• (Canada, rarely US) enPR: pr??s?s, IPA^(key): /?p?o?s?s/
• Hyphenation: pro?cess

Noun

process (plural processes)

1. A series of events which produce a result (the product).
2. (manufacturing) A set of procedures used to produce a product, most commonly in the food and chemical industries.
   • 1960, Mack Tyner, Process Engineering Calculations: Material and Energy Balances – Ordinarily a process plant will use a steam boiler to supply its process heat requirements and to drive a steam-turbine generator.
   • 1987, J. R. Richards, Principles of control system design in Modelling and control of fermentation processes – The words plant or process infer generally any dynamic system, be it primarily mechanical, electrical, or chemical process in nature, and may extend also to include social or economic systems.
3. A path of succession of states through which a system passes.
4. (anatomy) Successive physiological responses to keep or restore health.
5. (law) Documents issued by a court in the course of a lawsuit or action at law, such as a summons, mandate, or writ.
   • 1711, John Spotiswood, The Form of Process, 39:

     But if either at Calling by the Clerk, after the Session Bell, or before the Ordinary by the Roll, an Advocat compears, and craves to be Marked for the Defender, and to see the Process; The Clerk in the first Case, and the Judge in the second, will allow him to see it

6. (biology) An outgrowth of tissue or cell.
7. (anatomy) A structure that arises above a surface.
8. (computing) An executable task or program.
9. The centre mark that players aim at in the game of squails.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• due-process
• interprocess

Related terms

Related terms

• proceed
• procedure

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (purosesu)

Translations

Verb

process (third-person singular simple present processes, present participle processing, simple past and past participle processed)

1. (transitive) To perform a particular process on a thing.
2. (transitive) To retrieve, store, classify, manipulate, transmit etc. (data, signals, etc.), especially using computer techniques.

3. (transitive, figuratively) To think about a piece of information, or a concept, in order to assimilate it, and perhaps accept it in a modified state.

4. (transitive, photography, film) To develop photographic film.
5. (transitive, law) To take legal proceedings against.
   • 1845, Report from Her Majesty's Commissioners of inquiry into the state of the law and practice in respect to the occupation of land in Ireland

     When I saw that he would not let me alone, I processed him for £12. My mother was with his brother John, and he allowed her six guineas for clothes; and if she did not want the money, he would allow it to me in the rent, and I made him pay that when he would not leave me alone.

Derived terms

• processed
• processor

Translations

Etymology 2

Back-formation from procession.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) enPR: pr?-s?s?, IPA^(key): /p???s?s/
• Rhymes: -?s
• Hyphenation: pro?cess

Verb

process (third-person singular simple present processes, present participle processing, simple past and past participle processed)

1. To walk in a procession

Translations

Anagrams

• Cospers, Crespos, corpses, scopers

Latvian

Etymology

From Latin pr?cessus (“progression, progress, process”), perfect passive participle of pr?c?d? (“I advance, proceed”), from pr?- +? c?d? (“I go, move, proceed”).

Noun

process m (1st declension)

1. process

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin processus (“progression, progress, process”), perfect passive participle of pr?c?d? (“I advance, proceed”), from pr?- +? c?d? (“I go, move, proceed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pr??s?s/

Noun

process c

1. process

Declension

Derived terms

• processa

Related terms

• processuell

References

• process in Svensk ordbok (SO)