Words I Love 60 – Archive

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archive

ˈɑːkʌɪv/

noun

noun: archive; plural noun: archives

1. 1.

   a collection of historical documents or records providing information about a place, institution, or group of people.

   “a section of archive film”

   synonyms:

   records, annals, chronicles, registers, accounts; More

   • the place where historical documents or records are kept.

     “they were allowed to study in the archives”

     synonyms:

     record office, registry, repository, museum, chancery “more and more museums, archives, and libraries are becoming independent”

   • a complete record of the data in part or all of a computer system, stored on an infrequently used medium.

verb

verb: archive; 3rd person present: archives; past tense: archived; past participle:archived; gerund or present participle: archiving

1. 1.

   place or store (something) in an archive.

   synonyms:

   file, log, catalogue, pigeonhole; More

   • COMPUTING

     transfer (data) to a less frequently used storage medium such as magnetic tape.

     “the entire directory will be archived”

Origin

early 17th century (in the sense ‘place where records are kept’): from French archives(plural), from Latin archiva, archia, from Greek arkheia ‘public records’, from arkhē‘government’. The verb dates from the late 19th century.

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