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archive

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Noun
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ar=chive

CIDE DICTIONARY

archiven. [F. archives, pl., L. archivum, archium, fr. Gr. government house, archives, fr. the first place, government. See Archi-, pref.].
  •  The place in which public records or historic documents are kept.  [1913 Webster]
    "Our words . . . . become records in God's court, and are laid up in his archives as witnesses."  [1913 Webster]
  •  Public records or documents preserved as evidence of facts; as, the archives of a country or family.  [1913 Webster]
    "Some rotten archive, rummaged out of some seldom explored press."  [1913 Webster]
Syn. -- Registers; records; chronicles.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

archive, n. & v.
--n. (usu. in pl.)
1 a collection of esp. public or corporate documents or records.
2 the place where these are kept.
--v.tr.
1 place or store in an archive.
2 Computing transfer (data) to a less frequently used file, e.g. from disc to tape.

Derivative
archival adj.
Etymology
F archives (pl.) f. L archi(v)a f. Gk arkheia public records f. arkhe government

ROGET THESAURUS

archive

Record

N record, trace, vestige, relic, remains, scar, cicatrix, footstep, footmark, footprint, pug, track mark, wake, trail, scent, piste, monument, hatchment, slab, tablet, trophy, achievement, obelisk, pillar, column, monolith, memorial, memento, testimonial, medal, commemoration, record, note, minute, register, registry, roll, cartulary, diptych, Domesday book, catalogue raisonne, entry, memorandum, indorsement, inscription, copy, duplicate, docket, notch, muniment, deed, document, deposition, proces verbal, affidavit, certificate, notebook, memorandum book, memo book, pocketbook, commonplace book, portfolio, pigeonholes, excerpta, adversaria, jottings, dottings, gazette, gazetteer, newspaper, daily, magazine, almanac, almanack, calendar, ephemeris, diary, log, journal, daybook, ledger, cashbook, petty cashbook, professional journal, scientific literature, the literature, primary literature, secondary literature, article, review article, archive, scroll, state paper, return, blue book, statistics, compte rendu, Acts of, Transactions of, Proceedings of, Hansard's Debates, chronicle, annals, legend, history, biography, Congressional Records, registration, registry, enrollment, inrollment, tabulation, entry, booking, signature, recorder, journalism, recording, tape recording, videotape, compact disk, floppy disk, diskette, hard disk, Winchester disk, read-only memory, ROM, write once read mostly memory, WORM, on record, exegi monumentum aere perennium, read their history in a nation's eyes, records that defy the tooth of time.


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