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hist

noun

Meaning

  1. An instance of an exclamation attracting attention or injunction to be silent.
  2. An utterance used to discreetly attract someone's attention.
  3. An injunction to be silent and/or to pay attention to what is being said or can be heard.
  4. The aggregate of past events.
  5. The branch of knowledge that studies the past; the assessment of notable events.
  6. A set of events involving an entity.
  7. A record or narrative description of past events.
  8. A list of past and continuing medical conditions of an individual or family.
  9. A record of previous user events, especially of visited web pages in a browser.
  10. 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).
  11. To lift a trophy or similar prize into the air in celebration of a victory.
  12. To lift someone up to be flogged.
  13. To be lifted up.
  14. To extract (code) from a loop construct as part of optimization.
  15. To steal, to rob.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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