storey vs story
Definitions
noun
- a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale
Examples
She went to the top of a multi-storey car park at Brent Cross shopping centre in north London, sent text messages to some of her relations saying, "I love you," and then jumped off.
Using hydroponics, inorganic fertiliser, electric light and genetic modification we could in theory feed the entire world from a multi-storey farm the size of Wales.
In fact, David Hasselhoff is a man of such magnetic charisma that women literally throw themselves out of high-storey windows to attract his attention.
Definitions
noun
- a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale
- a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events
- 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
- a trivial lie
- a short account of the news
Examples
Before we did anything we wrote and rewrote the script until we felt what we had got written down was a really good story.
Leaked Reports Detail Iran's Aid for Iraqi Militias," blared the headline on afront page story inThe New York Times, which went on to report on several incidents recounted in WikiLeaks documents that journalist Michael Gordon called "the shadow war between the United States and Iraqi militias backed by Iran's Revolutionary Guards.
However, by that time I was so hooked by the story that I let it pass.
