different between report vs history

English

Etymology

From Middle English reporten, from Anglo-Norman reporter, Middle French reporter, and their source, Latin report?re (“to carry back, return, remit, refer”), from re- + port?re.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /???p??t/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???p??t/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /???po?t/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /???po(?)?t/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /???po?t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Verb

report (third-person singular simple present reports, present participle reporting, simple past and past participle reported)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To relate details of (an event or incident); to recount, describe (something). [from 15th c.]
2. (transitive) To repeat (something one has heard), to retell; to pass on, convey (a message, information etc.). [from 15^thc.]
3. (obsolete, reflexive) To take oneself (to someone or something) for guidance or support; to appeal. [15^th-18^thc.]
4. (formal, transitive) To notify someone of (particular intelligence, suspicions, illegality, misconduct etc.); to make notification to relevant authorities; to submit a formal report of. [from 15^thc.]

5. (transitive) To make a formal statement, especially of complaint, about (someone). [from 19^thc.]

6. (intransitive) To show up or appear at an appointed time; to present oneself. [from 19^thc.]
7. (transitive, intransitive) To write news reports (for); to cover as a journalist or reporter. [from 19^thc.]
   • 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     In January, the country’s weather agency sent aircraft to release chemicals into clouds over the Yellow Sea, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported.

8. (intransitive) To be accountable to or subordinate to (someone) in a hierarchy; to receive orders from (someone); to give official updates to (someone who is above oneself in a hierarchy).

   Now that I've been promoted, I report to Benjamin, whom I loathe.

9. (politics, dated) To return or present as the result of an examination or consideration of any matter officially referred.

10. To take minutes of (a speech, the doings of a public body, etc.); to write down from the lips of a speaker.
11. (obsolete) To refer.
    • 1639, Thomas Fuller, The Historie of the Holy Warre

      Baldwin, his son, […] succeeded his father; so like unto him that we report the reader to the character of King Almerick, and will spare the repeating his description.

12. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete, rare) To return or repeat, as sound; to echo.

Derived terms

• aforereported
• reporter
• underreport
• unreported

Translations

Noun

report (plural reports)

1. A piece of information describing, or an account of certain events given or presented to someone, with the most common adpositions being by (referring to creator of the report) and on (referring to the subject).
2. Reputation.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 36:

     I love thee in such sort / As, thou being mine, mine is thy good report.

3. (firearms) The sharp, loud sound from a gun or explosion.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 34

     While their masters, the mates, seemed afraid of the sound of the hinges of their own jaws, the harpooneers chewed their food with such a relish that there was a report to it.

   • 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island:

     […] a pistol-shot, flash and report, came from the hedge-side.
4. An employee whose position in a corporate hierarchy is below that of a particular manager.

   Synonym: subordinate

Derived terms

• (piece of information): on report, report card
• (employee): direct report, indirect report

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (rep?to), ???? (rip?to)

Translations

Further reading

• Report on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Report in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• Perrot, Porter, perrot, porret, porter, pretor, proter, troper

French

Etymology

deverbal of reporter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.p??/

Noun

report m (plural reports)

1. postponement
2. deferment

Synonyms

• ajournement

Further reading

• “report” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• porter

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