history

Main Entry:
annals [an-lz]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: chronicles
Synonyms: archives, history, journal, publication, records
Main Entry: rationalization
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: account
Synonyms: ABCs, annal, blow by blow, bulletin, chronicle, detail, explanation, history, justification, lowdown, make*, narration, narrative, play by play, rationale, reason, recital, report, run-down, score, story, tab, take*, tale, the picture, the whole picture, version
Notes: a rationale is given for a future course of action, whereas a rationalization is offered for a past action
Main Entry: reportage
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: reporting news
Synonyms: address, announcement, article, blow by blow, brief, broadcast, cable, chronicle, communication, communique, coverage, declaration, description, detail, digest, dispatch, handout, history, hot wire, information, message, narration, narrative, news, note, opinion, outline, paper, picture, piece, proclamation, pronouncement, précis, recital, record, relation, release, rundown, résumé, scoop*, statement, summary, tale, telegram, tidings, version, wire, word*, write-up
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Main Entry: account
Part of Speech: noun
Related
Adjectives:
accountable, anecdotic, cadastral, described, descriptive, epic, graphic, historic, hypomnematic, legendary, narrative, storied, suggestive, traditional, traditionary
Main Entry: life
Part of Speech: noun
Related
Adjectives:
above ground, aerobic, agamic, agrestian, alive, all alive and kicking, anaerobic, animated, archesporial, autacoidal, azzardly, bacillary, basal, bimanous, biodegradable, biomorphic, bionomic, biped, bircrural, blissom, breathing, celative, crepitous, cryptic, dacryopyostic, deglutitious, diallel, digenous, digoneutic, ditokous, diurnal, dizygotic, edentate, endothermic, epigamic, exogenous, gamic, haploid, hematic, hyperosmic, impar, in life, in the flesh, in the land of the living, indefatigable, lively, living, luxuriant, mammillated, marine, mercurial, metapneustic, microsmatic, motor, multilocular, muriform, myogenic, nizzertit, on this side of the grave, oviparous, ovoviviparous, palamate, paratonic, parthenic, parturient, pelagic, promethean, quick, rank, recuperated, refreshed, refreshing, ruttish, sedentary, sphygmic, spodogenous, stenobathic, tenacious of life, totipotent, untired, unwearied, urled, vegete, vital, vivacious, vivified, vivifying, yeld, zoetic
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Main Entry: past
Part of Speech: adjective, noun
Related
Adjectives:
ancestral, archaeological, blown over, bygone, cidevant, elapsed, expired, exploded, extinct, foregoing, foregone, forgotten, former, gone, gone by, hesternal, irrecoverable, lapsed, last, late, latter, looking back, never to return, no more, nudiustertian, obsolete, over, overnight, passed away, past, preterite, preteritial, preterlapsed, preterperfect, preterpluperfect, pridian, pristine, quondam, recent, retroactive, retrospective, run out, sometime, that has been, thenadays, whilom, yestern
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Life.
Category: 1. Vitality; vitality in general
Synonyms:
-nouns
life, vitality, viability; animation; vital spark, vital flame, soul, spirit., respiration, wind; breath of life, breath of one's nostrils; lifeblood; Archeus; existence., vivification; oxygen; vital air, vital force; vitalization; revivification; Prometheus; life to come (destiny)., [Science of life] physiology, biology; animal ecology., nourishment, staff of life (food) [more].
-verbs
be alive; live, breathe, respire; subsist (exist); walk the earth; "strut and fret one's hour upon the stage" [Macbeth]; be spared., see the light, be born, come into the world, fetch breath, draw breath, fetch the breath of life, draw the breath of life; quicken; revive; come to life., give birth to (produce); bring to life, put into life, vitalize; vivify, vivificate; reanimate (restore); keep alive, keep body and soul together, keep the wolf from the door; support life., have nine lives like a cat.
-adjectives
living, alive; in life, in the flesh, in the land of the living; on this side of the grave, above ground, breathing, quick, animated; animative; lively (active); all alive and kicking; tenacious of life., vital, vitalic; vivifying, vivified; viable, zoetic; Promethean.
-adverbs
vivendi causa.
-phrases
atqui vivere militare est [Seneca]; non est vivre sed valere vita [Martial].
Antonyms: death
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Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Record.
Category: 1. Natural Means
Synonyms:
-nouns
trace, vestige, relic, remains; scar, cicatrix; footstep, footmark, footprint; pug; track mark, wake, trail, scent, piste., monument, hatchment, slab, tablet, trophy, achievement; obelisk, pillar, column, monolith; memorial; memento (memory); testimonial, medal; commemoration (celebration)., record, note, minute; register, registry; roll (list); cartulary, diptych, Domesday book; catalogue raisonne; entry, memorandum, indorsement, inscription, copy, duplicate, docket; notch (mark); muniment, deed (security); document; deposition, proces verbal; affidavit; certificate (evidence)., notebook, memorandumbook, pocketbook, commonplace book; portfolio; pigeonholes, excerpta, adversaria, jottings, dottings., gazette, gazetteer; newspaper, daily, magazine; almanac, almanack; calendar, ephemeris, diary, log, journal, daybook, ledger; cashbook, petty cashbook., archive, scroll, state paper, return, blue book; statistics; compte rendu; Acts of, Transactions of, Proceedings of; Hansard's Debates; chronicle,annals, legend; history, biography; Congressional Records., registration; registry; enrollment, inrollment; tabulation; entry, booking; signature (identification); recorder; journalism.
-verbs
record; put on record, place on record; chronicle, calendar, hand down to posterity; keep up the memory (remember); commemorate (celebrate); report (inform); commit to writing, reduce to writing; put in writing, set down in writing, writing in black and white; put down, jot down, take down, write down, note down, set down; note, minute, put on paper; take note, make a note, take minutes, take memorandum; make a return., mark (indicate); sign (attest)., enter, book; post, post up, insert, make an entry of; mark off, tick off; register, enroll, inscroll; file (store).
-adverbs
on record.
-phrases
exegi monumentum aere perennium [Horace]; "read their history in a nation's eyes" [Gray] ; "records that defy the tooth of time" [Young].
Antonyms: obliteration
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