Library / English Dictionary

ARCHIVE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A depository containing historical records and documents

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("archive" is a kind of...):

deposit; depositary; depository; repository (a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "archive"):

chancery (an office of archives for public or ecclesiastic records; a court of public records)

Derivation:

archival (of or relating to or contained in or serving as an archive)

archive (put into an archive)

archivist (a person in charge of collecting and cataloguing archives)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Put into an archive

Synonyms:

archive; file away

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "archive" is one way to...):

collect; pull in (get or bring together)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They archive the newspapers

Derivation:

archive (a depository containing historical records and documents)

Credits

 Context examples: 

It is sufficient to know that the name to which I do myself the honour to refer, will ever be treasured among the muniments of our house (I allude to the archives connected with our former lodgers, preserved by Mrs. Micawber), with sentiments of personal esteem amounting to affection.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Sheldon says it's the latest and greatest in machine learning to extract bird data from the radar record and to take advantage of the treasure trove of bird migration information in the decades-long radar data archives.

(Using artificial intelligence to track birds' dark-of-night migrations, National Science Foundation)

Changes in these parameters can be identified in rock or sediment archives, like fingerprints left behind.

(Deep-sea sediments lead to new understanding of solar system, National Science Foundation)