Definitions
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a collection of records especially about an institution.
- n. a place where historical records and documents are kept.
WordNet 3.0
- n. collection of records especially about an institution
Examples
“I think that is a very useful perspective and if the common understanding of the term archives or records management 2.0 becomes that it represents the next version, a development of what has gone before, rather than a fundamental shift in purpose or values, I, for one, would be comfortable with that.”
“While browsing your achives I ran across this post, because browsing your archives is a lot more fun than actually working.”
“What had resurfaced as well from our archives is the following photo by Stephen Banham of a child's diorama of the Hariri car bomb site in Beirut.”
“Mike Lee just posted photos of his encounter with the new wifi access in Lower Manhattan: and in his archives is his visit to McDonalds”
Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Photoblogging the WiFi-ing of Manhattan
“Perhaps the day will come when the journals hoarding this material will stop trying to collect exorbitant fees from it, especially that which is locked away in archives, and will make it available free of charge online, actually contributing to what ought to be the mission of scholarly journals in the first place, which is precisely to foster informed discussion of the subjects on which they focus.”
“The Role of information organizations including libraries, print and electronic publishing industries, and archives is discussed.”
William E. J. Doane PhD › IST301x: The Information Environment
“Buried deep in the archives is one bloody incident, in 1956, that left 111 Palestinian refugees dead, shot by Israeli soldiers.”
“A contribution to Flickr Commons. posted by Sheila Ryan in archives, history, photographs, photography | * | 7 comments comments”
“(Via Heather Champ on Flickr Blog) posted by Sheila Ryan in archives, history, international, travel | * | 5 comments comments”
Photochrom Travel Views: Norway, Sweden, and Denmark | clusterflock
“I offered to wear gloves (as used in archives) and I was told that “there is an argument against that”.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘archives’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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POL - legislation
US Congress/Senate + Westminster + European Parliament usage
across the desk, act, action, adjournment, adjournment sine die, adoption, advise and consent, amendment, analysis of the b..., apportionment, appropriation, appropriations limit and 652 more...
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2nd part
prelude, ample, escalate, prototype, accession, acquisition, archives, zealot, indict, verdict, intimidating, timid and 454 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...health, follow, condition, meeting, minister, beginning, chapter, information, language, remain, covered, respect and 2614 more...
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Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue's Capitol
vestibule, foyer, mosaic, tessera, tower, elevator, observation deck, rotunda, guilloche, unicameral, legislature, supreme court and 81 more...
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GRE 3500
abase, abash, abate, aberrant, abeyance, abjure, ablution, abut, accede, accentuate, acerbity, acetic and 133 more...
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SAT Vocab
Redundant.
problematic, proclivity, prodigal, prodigious, prodigy, profane, profligate, profound, profusion, proliferation, prolific, prologue and 455 more...
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ash
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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SE 1
artisan, despondence, anarchist, alacrity, berserk, aquiline, gull, baleful, accretion, affliction, azure, antecede and 33 more...
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