archive
Usually archives. documents or records relating to the activities, business dealings, etc., of a person, family, corporation, association, community, or nation.
archives, a place where public records or other historical documents are kept.
any extensive record or collection of data: The encyclopedia is an archive of world history. The experience was sealed in the archive of her memory.
Digital Technology.
a long-term storage device, as a disk or magnetic tape, or a computer directory or folder that contains copies of files for backup or future reference.
a collection of digital data stored in this way.
a computer file containing one or more compressed files.
a collection of information permanently stored on the internet: The magazine has its entire archive online, from 1923 to the present.
to place or store in an archive: to vote on archiving the city's historic documents.
Digital Technology. to compress (computer files) and store them in a single file.
Origin of archive
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How to use archive in a sentence
Last year, the Home Office said the dossier had mysteriously disappeared from the archives.
Victim: I Watched British MPs Rape and Murder Young Boys | Nico Hines | December 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTCatalogue, published by Flammarion (2014), includes photographs from the Magnum Photos archives and text by Éric Hazan.
These posts are still available in archives that are only viewable to privileged members of the forum.
School Shooters Love This Pickup Artist Website | Brandy Zadrozny | December 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe jokes about going through airport security with the then 800-year-old document, which is now on loan to the National Archives.
You have worked for the National Archives for several different presidential libraries?
He was further instructed to hand over his consulate archives to the British Consul, who would take charge of American interests.
The Philippine Islands | John ForemanThere was once a learned gentleman who was deputed to examine and report upon the archives of the Cathedral of Southminster.
A Thin Ghost and Others | M. R. (Montague Rhodes) JamesBut an unreliable boy at our school matched this history from the unwritten archives of his vulgar relatives.
Papers from Overlook-House | Casper AlmoreWhen that event would take place, or how long it would be, appeared to be hidden in the archives of the future.
Johnny Ludlow, Fourth Series | Mrs. Henry WoodThe cities have followed the same path and their archives are being thoroughly examined.
British Dictionary definitions for archive
/ (ˈɑːkaɪv) /
a collection of records of or about an institution, family, etc
a place where such records are kept
computing data transferred to a tape or disk for long-term storage rather than frequent use
to store (documents, data, etc) in an archive or other repository
Origin of archive
1Derived forms of archive
- archival, adjective
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