English words for 'Act or process of historicizing.'
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adj
- Done in the manner of a historian: written as a development over time or in accordance with the historical method.
- of or relating to the study of history
- (uncommon) Synonym of historic: important or likely to be important to history and historians.
- Of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history, (particularly) as opposed to legends, myths, and fictions.
- (literature, art) Set in the past.
- (grammar) One of various tenses or moods used to tell about past events, historic (tense).
- Forming compound adjectives with the meaning "historical/~" or "historically":
- (literature, art) About history; depicting persons or events from history.
- (uncommon) Former, erstwhile; (religious, obsolete) lapsed, nominal.
- Of, concerning, or in accordance with the scholarly discipline of history.
- Of, concerning, or in accordance with the past generally.
- belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past
- used of the study of a phenomenon (especially language) as it changes through time
- having once lived or existed or taken place in the real world as distinct from being legendary
noun
prefix
noun
- Historical records; chronicles; history.
- plural of annal
- A periodic publication, containing records of discoveries, transactions of societies, etc.
- A relation of events in chronological order, each event being recorded under the year in which it happened.
- a chronological account of events in successive years
- reports of the work of a society or learned body etc
prefix
noun
- a history of a word
- the study of the sources and development of words
- (countable) An account of the origin and historical development of a word as presented in a dictionary or the like.
- (countable) The entire catalogue of meanings that a word, morpheme, or sign has carried throughout its history.
- (countable) The direct origin of a name, as in who someone was named after.
- (uncountable, linguistics) The scientific study of the origin and evolution of a word's semantic meaning across time, including its constituent morphemes and phonemes.
noun
noun
- A record of events; a relation or narrative.
- An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
- A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake.
- (banking) A bank account.
- (uncountable) Profit; advantage.
- Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
- Authorization as a specific registered user in accessing a system.
- (accounting) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review.
- A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.
- importance or value
- a record or narrative description of past events
- a formal contractual relationship established to provide for regular banking or brokerage or business services
- the quality of taking advantage
- a statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc.
- grounds
- a statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance
- a short account of the news
- the act of informing by verbal report
- an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered
verb
- (intransitive) To give a satisfactory reason for; to explain.
- (intransitive) To establish the location for someone.
- (transitive) To estimate, consider (something to be as described).
- (intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for (one's actions, behaviour etc.); to answer for.
- (intransitive) To cause the death, capture, or destruction of someone or something (+ for).
- (intransitive) To consider that.
- Used in phrasal verbs: account for, account of, account to.
- (intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for financial transactions, money received etc.
- keep an account of
- to give an account or representation of in words
- be the sole or primary factor in the existence, acquisition, supply, or disposal of something
- furnish a justifying analysis or explanation
verb
adj
- (psychology) Having become dependent after a long time in, and unable to function outside of an institution, especially a prison.
- Having been committed to an institution, such as a prison or an insane asylum.
- Having been established as an institution.
- officially placed in or committed to a specialized institution
- given the character of an institution or incorporated into a structured and usually well-established system
verb
- To follow the history of.
- (transitive) To draw or sketch lightly or with care.
- (computing, transitive) To follow the execution of the program by making it to stop after every instruction, or by making it print a message after every step.
- (transitive) To follow the trail of.
- (transitive) To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines.
- make a mark or lines on a surface
- pursue or chase relentlessly
- follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something
- make one's course or travel along a path; travel or pass over, around, or along
- copy by following the lines of the original drawing on a transparent sheet placed upon it; make a tracing of
- read with difficulty
- to go back over again
- discover traces of
adj
noun
- (engineering) A connecting bar or rod, pivoted at each end to the end of another piece, for transmitting motion, especially from one plane to another; specifically, such a piece in an organ stop action to transmit motion from the trundle to the lever actuating the stop slider.
- An enquiry sent out for a missing article, such as a letter or an express package.
- A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal.
- An act of tracing.
- (meteorology) A small amount of rain, not enough to be measured.
- (semiotics) A signifier approximated in the absence of stable signified.
- A very small amount, often residual, of some substance or material.
- An informal road or prominent path in an arid area.
- (linear algebra) The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.
- (programming) A sequence of instructions, including branches but not loops, that is executed for some input data.
- (electronics) A current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board.
- (fortification) The ground plan of a work or works.
- (grammar) An empty category occupying a position in the syntactic structure from which something has been moved, used to explain constructions such as wh-movement and the passive.
- (geometry) The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
- One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whippletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn; a tug.
- a just detectable amount
- a visible mark (as a footprint) left by the passage of person or animal or vehicle
- either of two lines that connect a horse's harness to a wagon or other vehicle or to a whiffletree
- a drawing created by superimposing a semitransparent sheet of paper on the original image and copying on it the lines of the original image
- an indication that something has been present
- a suggestion of some quality
noun
- Historical records; chronicles; history.
- plural of annal
- A periodic publication, containing records of discoveries, transactions of societies, etc.
- A relation of events in chronological order, each event being recorded under the year in which it happened.
- a chronological account of events in successive years
- reports of the work of a society or learned body etc
noun
- a history of a word
- the study of the sources and development of words
- (countable) An account of the origin and historical development of a word as presented in a dictionary or the like.
- (countable) The entire catalogue of meanings that a word, morpheme, or sign has carried throughout its history.
- (countable) The direct origin of a name, as in who someone was named after.
- (uncountable, linguistics) The scientific study of the origin and evolution of a word's semantic meaning across time, including its constituent morphemes and phonemes.
noun
noun
- A record of events; a relation or narrative.
- An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
- A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake.
- (banking) A bank account.
- (uncountable) Profit; advantage.
- Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
- Authorization as a specific registered user in accessing a system.
- (accounting) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review.
- A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.
- importance or value
- a record or narrative description of past events
- a formal contractual relationship established to provide for regular banking or brokerage or business services
- the quality of taking advantage
- a statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc.
- grounds
- a statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance
- a short account of the news
- the act of informing by verbal report
- an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered
verb
- (intransitive) To give a satisfactory reason for; to explain.
- (intransitive) To establish the location for someone.
- (transitive) To estimate, consider (something to be as described).
- (intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for (one's actions, behaviour etc.); to answer for.
- (intransitive) To cause the death, capture, or destruction of someone or something (+ for).
- (intransitive) To consider that.
- Used in phrasal verbs: account for, account of, account to.
- (intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for financial transactions, money received etc.
- keep an account of
- to give an account or representation of in words
- be the sole or primary factor in the existence, acquisition, supply, or disposal of something
- furnish a justifying analysis or explanation
verb
adj
- (psychology) Having become dependent after a long time in, and unable to function outside of an institution, especially a prison.
- Having been committed to an institution, such as a prison or an insane asylum.
- Having been established as an institution.
- officially placed in or committed to a specialized institution
- given the character of an institution or incorporated into a structured and usually well-established system
verb
- To follow the history of.
- (transitive) To draw or sketch lightly or with care.
- (computing, transitive) To follow the execution of the program by making it to stop after every instruction, or by making it print a message after every step.
- (transitive) To follow the trail of.
- (transitive) To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines.
- make a mark or lines on a surface
- pursue or chase relentlessly
- follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something
- make one's course or travel along a path; travel or pass over, around, or along
- copy by following the lines of the original drawing on a transparent sheet placed upon it; make a tracing of
- read with difficulty
- to go back over again
- discover traces of
adj
noun
- (engineering) A connecting bar or rod, pivoted at each end to the end of another piece, for transmitting motion, especially from one plane to another; specifically, such a piece in an organ stop action to transmit motion from the trundle to the lever actuating the stop slider.
- An enquiry sent out for a missing article, such as a letter or an express package.
- A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal.
- An act of tracing.
- (meteorology) A small amount of rain, not enough to be measured.
- (semiotics) A signifier approximated in the absence of stable signified.
- A very small amount, often residual, of some substance or material.
- An informal road or prominent path in an arid area.
- (linear algebra) The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.
- (programming) A sequence of instructions, including branches but not loops, that is executed for some input data.
- (electronics) A current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board.
- (fortification) The ground plan of a work or works.
- (grammar) An empty category occupying a position in the syntactic structure from which something has been moved, used to explain constructions such as wh-movement and the passive.
- (geometry) The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
- One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whippletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn; a tug.
- a just detectable amount
- a visible mark (as a footprint) left by the passage of person or animal or vehicle
- either of two lines that connect a horse's harness to a wagon or other vehicle or to a whiffletree
- a drawing created by superimposing a semitransparent sheet of paper on the original image and copying on it the lines of the original image
- an indication that something has been present
- a suggestion of some quality
adj
- Done in the manner of a historian: written as a development over time or in accordance with the historical method.
- of or relating to the study of history
- (uncommon) Synonym of historic: important or likely to be important to history and historians.
- Of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history, (particularly) as opposed to legends, myths, and fictions.
- (literature, art) Set in the past.
- (grammar) One of various tenses or moods used to tell about past events, historic (tense).
- Forming compound adjectives with the meaning "historical/~" or "historically":
- (literature, art) About history; depicting persons or events from history.
- (uncommon) Former, erstwhile; (religious, obsolete) lapsed, nominal.
- Of, concerning, or in accordance with the scholarly discipline of history.
- Of, concerning, or in accordance with the past generally.
- belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past
- used of the study of a phenomenon (especially language) as it changes through time
- having once lived or existed or taken place in the real world as distinct from being legendary