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REPOSITORY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping
Synonyms:
deposit; depositary; depository; repository
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("repository" is a kind of...):
facility; installation (a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry)
Meronyms (parts of "repository"):
storage space (the area in any structure that provides space for storage)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "repository"):
archive (a depository containing historical records and documents)
bank; bank building (a building in which the business of banking transacted)
drop (a central depository where things can be left or picked up)
depository library; library (a depository built to contain books and other materials for reading and study)
lost-and-found (repository in a public building where lost articles can be kept until their owners reclaim them)
museum (a depository for collecting and displaying objects having scientific or historical or artistic value)
repertory (a storehouse where a stock of things is kept)
sperm bank (a depository for storing sperm)
depot; entrepot; storage; store; storehouse (a depository for goods)
treasury (a depository (a room or building) where wealth and precious objects can be kept safely)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A burial vault (usually for some famous person)
Synonyms:
monument; repository
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("repository" is a kind of...):
burial chamber; sepulcher; sepulchre; sepulture (a chamber that is used as a grave)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A person to whom a secret is entrusted
Synonyms:
repository; secretary
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("repository" is a kind of...):
confidant; intimate (someone to whom private matters are confided)
Context examples:
Repository of cell samples
(Cell Bank, NCI Thesaurus)
NCI Initiative to integrate the cytogenetic and physical maps of the human genome, generate a repository of BAC clones arrayed across the genetic and physical map, and to develop a publicly available database displaying this clone repository and providing a platform for correlation with other databases of chromosomal aberrations, as well as clinical and histopathological information.
(Cancer Chromosome Aberration Project, NCI Thesaurus)
A data repository developed by the National Institute of Environmental Sciences (NIEHS) National Center for Toxicogenomics (NCT) to promote a systems biology approach to understand the biological effects of environmental stressors on environmentally induced toxicity and disease.
(Chemical Effects in Biological Systems, NCI Thesaurus)
He only desired me to observe a ruined building, upon the side of a mountain about three miles distant, of which he gave me this account: That he had a very convenient mill within half a mile of his house, turned by a current from a large river, and sufficient for his own family, as well as a great number of his tenants; that about seven years ago, a club of those projectors came to him with proposals to destroy this mill, and build another on the side of that mountain, on the long ridge whereof a long canal must be cut, for a repository of water, to be conveyed up by pipes and engines to supply the mill, because the wind and air upon a height agitated the water, and thereby made it fitter for motion, and because the water, descending down a declivity, would turn the mill with half the current of a river whose course is more upon a level.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The repository has stringent guidelines regarding the standardized collection, handling, storage and documentation of biological specimens.
(Cancer Biobank, NCI Thesaurus)
As it celebrated its 41st anniversary Thursday (Apr. 24), the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) unveiled the largest genetic repository in Latin America, which can store up to 750,000 seed samples.
(LatAm's largest gene bank unveiled in Brasília, Agência BRASIL)
Mr. Tiffey and myself, Mr. Copperfield, are about to examine the desks, the drawers, and other such repositories of the deceased, with the view of sealing up his private papers, and searching for a Will. There is no trace of any, elsewhere.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
