hist
noun
Meaning
- An instance of an exclamation attracting attention or injunction to be silent.
- An utterance used to discreetly attract someone's attention.
- An injunction to be silent and/or to pay attention to what is being said or can be heard.
- The aggregate of past events.
- The branch of knowledge that studies the past; the assessment of notable events.
- A set of events involving an entity.
- A record or narrative description of past events.
- A list of past and continuing medical conditions of an individual or family.
- A record of previous user events, especially of visited web pages in a browser.
- To raise; to lift; to elevate (especially, to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means of tackle or pulley, said of a sail, a flag, a heavy package or weight).
- To lift a trophy or similar prize into the air in celebration of a victory.
- To lift someone up to be flogged.
- To be lifted up.
- To extract (code) from a loop construct as part of optimization.
- To steal, to rob.
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