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Story vs. Tome — What's the Difference?

Story vs. Tome — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Story and Tome

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Story

An account of imaginary or real people and events told for entertainment
I'm going to tell you a story
An adventure story

Tome

A book, especially a large, heavy, scholarly one
A weighty tome

Story

An account of past events in someone's life or in the development of something
The film is based on a true story
The story of modern farming

Tome

One of the books in a work of several volumes.

Story

The commercial prospects or circumstances of a particular company
The investors' flight to profitable businesses with solid stories
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Tome

A book, especially a large or scholarly one.

Story

Variant spelling of storey

Tome

One in a series of volumes.

Story

An account or report regarding the facts of an event or group of events
The witness changed her story under questioning.

Tome

A large or scholarly book.
The professor pulled a dusty old tome from the bookshelf.

Story

An anecdote
Came back from the trip with some good stories.

Tome

As many writings as are bound in a volume, forming part of a larger work; a book; - usually applied to a ponderous volume.
Tomes of fable and of dream.
A more childish expedient than that to which he now resorted is not to be found in all the tomes of the casuists.

Story

A lie
Told us a story about the dog eating the cookies.

Tome

A (usually) large and scholarly book

Story

A usually fictional prose or verse narrative intended to interest or amuse the hearer or reader; a tale.

Story

A short story.

Story

The plot of a narrative or dramatic work.

Story

A news article or broadcast.

Story

Something viewed as or providing material for a literary or journalistic treatment
"He was colorful, he was charismatic, he was controversial, he was a good story" (Terry Ann Knopf).

Story

The background information regarding something
What's the story on these unpaid bills?.

Story

Romantic legend or tradition
A hero known to us in story.

Story

A complete horizontal division of a building, constituting the area between two adjacent floors.

Story

The set of rooms on the same floor of a building.

Story

To decorate with scenes representing historical or legendary events.

Story

(Archaic) To tell as a story.

Story

An account of real or fictional events.
The book tells the story of two roommates.

Story

A lie, fiction.
You’ve been telling stories again, haven’t you?

Story

A soap opera.
What will she do without being able to watch her stories?

Story

(obsolete) History.

Story

A sequence of events, or a situation, such as might be related in an account.
What's the story with him?
I tried it again; same story, no error message, nothing happened.

Story

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.

Story

(computing) user story

Story

To tell as a story; to relate or narrate about.

Story

A set of rooms on the same floor or level; a floor, or the space between two floors. Also, a horizontal division of a building's exterior considered architecturally, which need not correspond exactly with the stories within.

Story

A narration or recital of that which has occurred; a description of past events; a history; a statement; a record.
One malcontent who did indeed get a name in story.
Venice, with its unique city and its Impressive story.
The four great monarchies make the subject of ancient story.

Story

The relation of an incident or minor event; a short narrative; a tale; especially, a fictitious narrative less elaborate than a novel; a short romance.

Story

A euphemism or child's word for "a lie;" a fib; as, to tell a story.

Story

To tell in historical relation; to make the subject of a story; to narrate or describe in story.
How worthy he is I will leave to appear hereafter, rather than story him in his own hearing.
It is storied of the brazen colossus in Rhodes, that it was seventy cubits high.

Story

A message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program;
His narrative was interesting
Disney's stories entertain adults as well as children

Story

A piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events;
He writes stories for the magazines

Story

Structure consisting of a room or set of rooms comprising a single level of a multilevel building;
What level is the office on?

Story

A record or narrative description of past events;
A history of France
He gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president
The story of exposure to lead

Story

A short account of the news;
The report of his speech
The story was on the 11 o'clock news
The account of his speech that was given on the evening news made the governor furious

Story

A trivial lie;
He told a fib about eating his spinach
How can I stop my child from telling stories?

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