Что (кто) такое story - определение
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story
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n.
tale
1) to narrate, tell a story
2) to carry, circulate, print, run a story (all the newspapers carried the story about the fire)
3) to edit; rewrite; write a story
4) to concoct, fabricate, invent, make up a story
5) to change, revise; embellish, embroider a story
6) to cover up, hush up, kill, suppress a story
7) a boring; charming; cock-and-bull, farfetched; coherent; complicated, involved; dirty, off-color, risque (risqu?); funny, humorous; gripping; implausible; improbable; juicy; likely, plausible; long; sob; true; ugly; untold story
8) a bedtime, children's, fairy; detective; ghost; hard-luck; love story
9) a breaking ('very new'); cover; exclusive; feature; front-page; human-interest story; the inside story
10) conflicting stories (they told conflicting stories to the police)
11) a shaggy dog story ('a long rambling joke with an illogical punch line')
12) a short story ('a short prose narrative')
13) the whole story (who knows the whole story of the incident?)
14) a story breaks ('becomes known'); circulates
15) a story about, of (she told charming stories about her travels; to narrate gripping stories of wartime heroism)
16) a story that + clause (have you heard the story that she intends to resign?)
background information
17) to get the (whole) story
misc.
18) the police could not make a coherent story out of his ravings; a success story ('a successful career')
II
storey n.
floor level
a lower; top; upper story
Story
·noun A euphemism or child's word for "a lie;" a fib; as, to tell a story.
II. Story ·vt To tell in historical relation; to make the subject of a story; to narrate or describe in story.
III. Story ·noun A narration or recital of that which has occurred; a description of past events; a history; a statement; a record.
IV. Story ·noun 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.
V. Story ·vt A set of rooms on the same floor or level; a floor, or the space between two floors. Also, a horizontal division of a building's exterior considered architecturally, which need not correspond exactly with the stories within.
story
(stories)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
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.
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2.
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.
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3.
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.
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4.
If someone invents a story, they give a false explanation or account of something.
He invented some story about a cousin.
= tale, yarn
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5.
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.
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see storey
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8.
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.
PHRASE: V inflects
9.
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.
PHRASE: usu v-link PHR
10.
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.
PHRASE: v-link PHR
11.
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.
PHRASE: usu v-link PHR
12.
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.
PHRASE: side inflects
Примеры произношения для story
1. after story, after story.
Palace of Treason _ Jason Matthews _ Talks at Google
2. a story theater story.
The Power to Persuade _ Doug Stevenson _ Talks at Google
3. story in story.
Breaking Out _ John Butman _ Talks Google
4. story after story.
Eoin Colfer _ Highfire - A Novel _ Talks at Google
5. story.
George Lopez _ My Life and Career as a Comedian _ Talks at Google
Примеры употребления для story
1. It was a story of regret, a story of brotherhood, and ultimately, a story of redemption.
2. So whose story am I telling?‘ He continued: ‘Even if you tell a true story, a true story is never really a true story.
3. The story of Christopher Hogwood is undeniably a love story.
4. The story so far ... The ... same ... old ... story!
5. The story of Mikhail Khodorkovsky‘s trial is first and foremost a Russian story, not a Jewish story.