story
IPA: stˈɔri
noun
- An account of real or fictional events.
- A lie, fiction.
- (US, colloquial, usually pluralized) A soap opera.
- (obsolete) History.
- A sequence of events, or a situation, such as might be related in an account.
- (social media, sometimes capitalized) A chronological collection of pictures or short videos published by a user on an application or website that is typically only available for a short period.
- A surname.
- An unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Arkansas, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Van Buren Township, Brown County, Indiana.
- A ghost town in St. Clair County, Missouri.
- An unincorporated community in Sioux County, Nebraska.
- A census-designated place in Sheridan County, Wyoming.
- (computing) Ellipsis of user story. [(computing) In software development, a natural language description of how an end user uses a system feature.]
- (chiefly US) Alternative spelling of storey. [A floor or level of a building or ship.]
verb
- (transitive) To tell as a story; to relate or narrate about.
- (transitive, intransitive, social media, sometimes capitalized) To post a story (chronological collection of pictures or short videos) on an application or website.
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Examples of "story" in Sentences
- The woman should tell the story.
- Then it tells the story of the reprisal.
- The opera tells the story of the prejudice.
- The story is irresistible, as is the telling.
- The story begins with an insight to the past.
- Numbers and both tell the story of the spies.
- The mission is to tell the story of hardcore punk.
- _Golden arm_ (story) Clemens _How to tell a story_
- It tells the story of a gang of juvenile delinquents.
- A plaque at the point tells of the story of the wreck.
- The opera is tells the story of the Judgement of Paris.
- The cold truth of crisis management is that \ "telling your side of the story\" only works when you have a story to tell.
- A third student told the third part, beginning with _the next morning_ and ending with the close of the story, _Now this is a true story_.
- A _feature story_ is either a story that is thus played up or a story that is written for some other reason than news value, such as human interest.
- When a story is rewritten to give a new interest to old facts it is called a _rewrite story_; when it is rewritten to include new facts or developments, it is called a _follow-up_,
- But just as soon as any part of the story becomes more interesting than the fact that there was a fire, the story is no longer featureless -- it is a fire story with a feature, or, for the purposes of our study, _a feature fire story_.
- You will also find St. Godric of Finchale in the calendar of saints, and they are one and the same, the story of his very long life come down to us as he told it in his old age to Reginald of Durham -- although _this _story is not in there.
- It made me realise what sort of short story I enjoy: a story with a lot of worldbuilding where information needed to understand 'what's going on' comes out in the course of the plot; a story which has 'real' characters with 'real' issues other than to solve what the heck is going on *in just this story*.
- If you will bear in mind that a playlet is only as good as its plot, that a plot is a _story_ and that you must give to your story, as has been said, "A completeness -- a kind of universal dovetailedness, a sort of general oneness," you will have little difficulty in observing the one playlet rule that should never be broken -- Unity of action.
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