the story

Definition of the story in English English dictionary
story: A floor or level of a building (mainly US - see storey)
Our shop was on the fourth story of the building — we had to install an elevator.
story: A soap opera
What will she do without being able to watch her stories?.
the story.: speel
story: {v} to relate, tell, describe, range in order
story: {n} a history, tale, fiction, lie, part of a house
story: A lie
story: A group of related photographs licensed for publication as a unified theme The publication of all or any one of such photographs constitutes publication of the story and no other additional publication rights are deemed granted, absent a separate agreement
story: An account of real or fictional events
story: That portion of a building which is between the upper surface of any floor and the upper surface of the floor next above
story: a trivial lie; "he told a fib about eating his spinach"; "how can I stop my child from telling stories?"
story: The relation of an incident or minor event; a short narrative; a tale; especially, a fictitious narrative less elaborate than a novel; a short romance
story: Also, a horizontal division of a building's exterior considered architecturally, which need not correspond exactly with the stories within
story: If someone tells you their side of the story, they tell you why they behaved in a particular way and why they think they were right, when other people think that person behaved wrongly. He had already made up his mind before even hearing her side of the story. story singing detective story horror story mystery story short story Story Joseph
story: a record or narrative description of past events; "a history of France"; "he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president"; "the story of exposure to lead"
story: information that tells what happened over time -- " without actually including these words in the story " (187)
story: Space between two connected floors
story: a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program; "his narrative was interesting"; "Disney's stories entertain adults as well as children"
story: Material not (yet) presented - inferred, presumed, assumed
story: That portion of a building included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the next floor above it, or if there is no floor above it, then the space between the floor and the ceiling next above it
story: The story of something is a description of all the important things that have happened to it since it began. the story of the women's movement in Ireland
story: In British English, you use to cut a long story short to indicate that you are going to state the final result of an event and not give any more details. In American English, you say to make a long story short. To cut a long story short, I ended up as managing director
story: structure consisting of a room or set of rooms comprising a single level of a multilevel building; "what level is the office on?"
story: A story is a description of an event or something that happened to someone, especially a spoken description of it. The parents all shared interesting stories about their children Isak's story is typical of a child who has a specific learning disability
story: The story is the basic unit of work in XP A story represents a chunk of business value that can be tested, estimated and delivered within an iteration The headline of each story is written on an index card
story: A single floor of a structure
story: A story is a description of imaginary people and events, which is written or told in order to entertain. I shall tell you a story about four little rabbits. a popular love story with a happy ending
story: A set of rooms on the same floor or level; a floor, or the space between two floors
story: That part of a building between any floor and the floor or roof next above
story: A horizontal division of a building, from the floor to the ceiling above it
story: If someone invents a story, they give a false explanation or account of something. He invented some story about a cousin. = tale, yarn
story: A story is the text in a publication
story: see storey see -storey see also cock-and-bull story, short story, sob story, success story, tall story
story: {i} true or fictional account of some occurrence; short work of fiction; plot; news report; joke, anecdote; lie, fib; floor, level in a building
story: a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events; "he writes stories for the magazines
story: An imaginative tale that is shorter than a novel, but longer than a short story
story: a fib; as, to tell a story
story: A news story is a piece of news in a newspaper or in a news broadcast. Those are some of the top stories in the news They'll do anything for a story. front-page news stories
story: If you say it's the same old story or it's the old story, you mean that something unpleasant or undesirable seems to happen again and again. It's the same old story. They want one person to do three people's jobs
story: a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events; "he writes stories for the magazines"
story: The actions and events within the narrative, but not the narrative or recounting itself What happened versus how it is told
story: You use a different story to refer to a situation, usually a bad one, which exists in one set of circumstances when you have mentioned that it does not exist in another set of circumstances. Where Marcella lives, the rents are fairly cheap, but a little further north it's a different story
story: A term for a set of copy that was imported into page layout software as one file The story may appear in one place in one text block (PageMaker term) or in one text box (XPress term,) or it may be "chained" across multiple boxes that may reside on multiple pages of a document A "story" is the largest piece of text that can be "highlighted" (selected in preparation for formatting) at one time Stories must be highlighted individually
story: A narration or recital of that which has occurred; a description of past events; a history; a statement; a record
story: A story is nothing else than the subjective image in a participant's mind of observed changes in the model world A story is ultimately "rendered" by the players' brains, according to the inputs they receive from the game [!!MOVE THIS: Note: decent AI participants of course must do the same thing They being, well handicapped, some special hint mechanism (a special protocol between them and the story controller) may probably be needed to help them, poor, clueless freaks ] To propagate the common vision (as prescribed in the storylineby the game authors), to drive the participants to the desired direction, having them experience what's intended for them, the story driver is the key component in the Clockwork Engine
story: A euphemism or child's word for "a lie;" a fib; as, to tell a story
story: a life of a character behind the plot
story: To tell in historical relation; to make the subject of a story; to narrate or describe in story
story: In a narrative film, all the events that we see and hear, plus all those that we infer or assume to have occurred, arranged in their presumed causal relations, chronological order, duration, frequency, and spatial locations Opposed to plot, which is the film’s actual presentation of events in the story See also duration, ellipsis, frequency, order, space, viewing time
story: a short account of the news; "the report of his speech"; "the story was on the 11 o'clock news"; "the account of his speech that was given on the evening news made the governor furious"
story: A euphemism or child's word for "a lie;"
story: If you say that something is only part of the story or is not the whole story, you mean that the explanation or information given is not enough for a situation to be fully understood. This may be true but it is only part of the story Jane goes to great lengths to explain that this is not the whole story
story: string
story: sty
story: tale

the story

Hyphenation

the sto·ry

Turkish pronunciation

dhi stôri

Pronunciation

/ᴛʜē ˈstôrē/ /ðiː ˈstɔːriː/

Etymology

[ before consonants usually ] (definite article.) before 12th century. Middle English, from Old English thE, masc. demonstrative pronoun & definite article, alteration of sE; akin to Greek ho, masculine demonstrative pronoun & definite article; more at THAT.