Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act of storing goods or the state of being stored.
- n. A space for storing goods.
- n. The price charged for keeping goods stored.
- n. The charging or regenerating of a storage battery.
- n. Computer Science The part of a computer that stores information for subsequent use or retrieval.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of storing, in any sense; specifically, the keeping of goods in a store, warehouse, or other place of deposit.
- n. The price charged or paid for keeping goods in a storehouse.
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable The act of storing goods; the state of being stored.
- n. An object or place in which something is stored.
- n. computing Any computer device, including such as a disk, on which data is stored for a longer term than memory.
- n. uncountable The price charged for storing goods.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of depositing in a store or warehouse for safe keeping; also, the safe keeping of goods in a warehouse.
- n. Space for the safe keeping of goods.
- n. The price changed for keeping goods in a store.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (computer science) the process of storing information in a computer memory or on a magnetic tape or disk
- n. the commercial enterprise of storing goods and materials
- n. the act of storing something
- n. a depository for goods
- n. an electronic memory device
- n. depositing in a warehouse
Etymologies
- From store + -age. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“They would be fitted with carbon capture storage technology, which would trap CO2 emissions and send them through a network of pipelines to a storage area under the North Sea.”
“If you want to get all posts that talk about partitions and storage engines, you can ask for "+partition* +storage +engine".”
“In addition to the works displayed on my website, I have many drawings, prints and paintings in storage from the years 2000-2005, which will be offered for sale here for the first time.”
“Grain storage is one function of the trojes, along with providing living quarters.”
“By the term storage hygiene, we mean the use of all technical measures with the exception of the application of chemicals.”
“By the term storage hygiene, we mean the use of all technical measures without the application of chemicals.”
“Using an iPod as multimedia storage is a clutter-free way to improve your movie collection and repurpose an outdated music player.”
“PHILBRICK: This is in what they call storage pods.”
Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
“Now, half of the apples we have right now on the shelves in the grocers are old crop, or what they call storage apples, and then you have many apples that are fresh crops from the south Hemisphere, like the Granny Smith's down here and other apples that we have on the sample.”
“Xyratex are producing phenomenal solutions that allow innovators to focus on the software that wraps around this hardware and becomes what you know as a storage solution.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘storage’.
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SEDE - technology+material+support
storage, smokeless, sensor, sandbag, resources, repeating, receiver, pellet, logistics, marker, interceptor, locator and 302 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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TECH - department store terms
absorbable, access road, account book, acoustic, adding machine, adhesive, advisory service, aeration, air compressor, air conditioner, air filter, alarm system and 231 more...
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webdev
random webdev lingo used primarily in computer programming.
( open list, randomness, technical jargon, geek speak )
more:
ajax, user, admin, frontend, backend, database, sql, protocol, call, dom, layout, ui and 439 more... -
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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TECH - digital photography
AD converter, AE lock, AF assist lamp, AF servo, aliasing, anti-shake, aperture, aperture priority, artifact, aspect ratio, auto bracketing, autofocus and 106 more...
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The -ages of Man(-age)
Trivet also has this list, which you should go see. And then I found this list, and this list...
manage, salvage, selvadge, savage, voyage, umbrage, entourage, homage, carriage, marriage, language, potage and 123 more...
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Stuffie: Dead
Stuff that's dead.
last, right, straight, reckoning, ahead, duck, heat, end, beat, walking, pool, grateful and 53 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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Mnemosyne
Elicityscapes. Re-re-running; get, put.
"'Member dat?"
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents."
-...linkage, peg, ceremony, memo, mnemosyne, mnemonic, memento, anchor, compose, draw, picture, imagine and 101 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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Jacqueline's Words
glittery, horny, amazing, wanderlust, forlorn, lustily, nonchalant, cool, passive, submissive, roundabout, carousel and 558 more...
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Journey of a 300-Year-Old House
If you read this in order from top to bottom, the word progression suggests the "lifespan" of a 300-year-old house in Pennsylvania.
national register..., volunteers, storage, visitors, library, curator, quarters, caretaker, hardware, beam, chamfered, joists and 42 more...
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Cloroxyopia
For nonporous surfaces.
trademark, registered, comments, questions, trash, discard, available, recycling, empty, reuse, flush, disposal and 76 more...
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xyb's Words
china, beijing, python, it, hannover, liebe, douban, blogger, ajax, file, storage, love and 2 more...
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Stuffie: And The Green Grass Grows Al...
Stuffie #13. Stuff you take stuff out of.
box, bag, closet, back room, context, paycheck, thin air, the mouths of babes, my head, my mouth, your recess, storage and 5 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for storage.
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