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Definition: Archive |
ArchiveNoun1. A depository containing historical records and documents. Verb1. Put into an archive. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "archive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references) |
Etymology: Archive \Ar"chive\, noun; plural Archives. [French expression archives, plural, from Latin expression archivum, archium, from the Greek expression government house, archives, from the first place, government. See Archi-, pref.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Archive 1. |
Law | Collection of documents whatever their date, form or material medium, drawn up or received by a person, a public or private organization, in the course of its duty organized and stored permanently or for a specified period. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
An archive (Pronounced Ar-kive), in computing, is bundle of other files contained in one file itself. Technically, archives do not compress, rather just tieing together files and their structure, but in reality, many archive formats feature built-in compression, especially on non-Unix platforms.Ubiquitous amongst Unix and Unix-like operating systems is the tape archive format, tar. Originally intended for use for transferring files on tape, it is generally used to combine files before they are compressed, usually by gzip or bzip2. Other formats include ar and shar.
On Windows platforms, the most widely-used archive format by far is zip; other popular formats are rar, ace and arj. On Amigas, the standard archive format is lha, while on Apple Macintosh computers, sea is among the most common.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Archive."
Synonyms: ArchiveSynonyms: archives (n), file away (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Record | 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. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Motorized bin in old CDC Still Picture Archive, Building 2, Clifton Road. Credit: CDC. |  | SeaStar and SeaWiFS Construction Photo Archive. Credit: NASA. |
 | Scientist Frank Porto at the tape drives of the then new National Environmental Satellite Service (NESS) mass data storage system, the SDC TBMII. This system was used to archive all of the TIROS-N and NOAA-6 digital data on standard two- inch video tape. Credit: NOAA in Space. |  | The forward magazines of USS Arizona (BB-39) explode after she was hit by a Japanese bomb, Dec. 7, 1941. Frame clipped from a color motion picture taken from on board USS Solace (AH-5). (Navy archive photo). |
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| "HotSpot" by Mirko Grisendi Commentary: "Wood archive in the garden." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | From this archive, we have compiled the following list covering dissertations devoted to Marfan syndrome. (references) | |
National Library of Medicine (NLM). Access to this growing archive of e-journals is free and unrestricted. (references) | ||
Since then, they have accumulated an impressive archive of studies and knowledge dedicated to this subject. (references) | ||
Economic History | Philippines | Description: Digitise library card catalogues, technical manuals & archive for US Department of Justice, maintain UK voters' lists, etc. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Archive" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 89.68% of the time. "Archive" is used about 493 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 89.68% | 443 | 13,068 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.64% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.24% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 3.04% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Noun (common) | 0.4% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 493 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "archive": archive copy ♦ archive site ♦ comprehensive Perl Archive Network ♦ comprehensive TeX Archive Network ♦ film archive ♦ FTP archive ♦ gnu archive site ♦ higher Education National Software Archive ♦ Java archive ♦ pilot European Image Processing Archive ♦ self Extracting Archive ♦ sound archive ♦ tape archive. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "archive": archive-type. | |
Ending with "archive": photo-archive, uis-archive. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
archive | 2,788 | erotic story archive | 213 |
archive kristen | 2,105 | bass tab archive | 193 |
nifty archive | 1,975 | weather archive | 190 |
clipart archive | 1,019 | internet archive | 176 |
national archive | 845 | sex story archive | 175 |
nifty erotic story archive | 840 | breast expansion archive | 171 |
celebrity movie archive | 743 | national archive of canada | 164 |
nifty story archive | 508 | movie archive | 152 |
newspaper archive | 500 | archive b b b b b b black dark death legion metal metal music | 151 |
actress archive | 434 | archive guitar ultimate | 150 |
archive kristens | 429 | online guitar archive | 147 |
archive hegre | 394 | archive photo | 141 |
eunuch archive | 383 | jades celebrity archive | 141 |
nifty erotic archive | 316 | archive ebony | 138 |
jades nude celebrity archive | 280 | archive of internal medicine | 130 |
world sex archive | 242 | mp3 archive | 128 |
jab archive | 239 | music archive | 128 |
archive power | 237 | adult story archive | 128 |
archive star | 233 | national archive record administration | 127 |
news archive | 225 | grey archive | 125 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "archive"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | argief (keeper). (various references) | |
Chinese | 檔案 (file, record), 档案 (Archival, archives). (various references) | |
Danish | arkiv (archives, files, records). (various references) | |
Dutch | archief (archives, files, records). (various references) | |
Esperanto | arkivo, arĥivo (archives, files, records), enarkivigi, enarĥivigi. (various references) | |
Farsi | ضبطاسنادواوراق بایگانی , بایگانی (Record). (various references) | |
Finnish | arkistokappale (archive copy). (various references) | |
French | archives (archives), archive. (various references) | |
Frisian | argyf. (various references) | |
German | archivieren, Archiv (archives, files, morgue, records). (various references) | |
Greek | αρχείο (file, registry), αντίγραφο αρχείου (archive copy). (various references) | |
Hungarian | archívum (archives, files, records). (various references) | |
Italian | archivio (archives, file, record). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 書庫 , わが国 (arc, architecture, archiver, argument, argyle, argyle check, be excited, bustling, creepy crawly, get nervous, hiragana for "we", hiragana for "wi", our country, our land, shuffling, slit, squirming, tremble, vagina, vulva). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しょこ, アーカイブ . (various references) | |
Korean | 기록 보관소 (archives). (various references) | |
Papiamen | argif (archives, files, records). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | archiveay.(various references) | |
Polish | archiwum (archives, files, records). (various references) | |
Portuguese | arquivo (archives, dossier, file, filing cabinet, portfolio, records). (various references) | |
Romanian | arhivistic, arhivã (Chancery, file, morgue, records). (various references) | |
Russian | архивизировать архив архивный, архив (archives, files, records). (various references) | |
Spanish | archivo (archives, files, morgue, records, registry). (various references) | |
Swedish | arkiv (archives, file, files, records). (various references) | |
Thai | เอกสารสำคัญ, สถานที่เก็บเอกสารสำคัญ. (various references) | |
Turkish | arxív (archives, files, records), arşiv (archives, muniments, record office, records), kayıtlar (archives, history, records). (various references) | |
Turkmen | arhiw (r). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | e-dub-ba. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "archive": archived, archives. (additional references) | |
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"Archive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acheve, achiev, achive, Arachova, archeive, archi, Archief, archiev, archieve, archiv, archiveb, archiver, archivo, arcive, Arkhi, arschive, artchive, Harkhuf. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-i-r-v" | |
-1 letter: achier, cahier. | |
-2 letters: aiver, areic, carve, caver, cavie, ceria, chair, chare, chive, crave, erica, haver, reach, vicar. | |
-3 letters: ache, acre, arch, aver, care, cave, char, chia, cire, each, hair, hare, have, hear, heir, hire, hive, race, rave, rhea, rice, rich, rive, vair, vera, vice, vier. | |
-4 letters: ace, air, arc, are, ave, car, chi, ear. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-i-r-v" | |
+1 letter: achiever, archived, archives, chivaree. | |
+2 letters: achievers, chevalier, chivareed, chivarees, chivaried, chivaries, echeveria, vehicular. | |
+3 letters: architrave, chevaliers, chivalries, czarevitch, echeverias, revanchism, revanchist, tovariches. | |
+4 letters: architraves, chivareeing, hyperactive, overachieve, overarching, revanchisms, revanchists. | |
+5 letters: czarevitches, hyperactives, overachieved, overachiever, overachieves, overcharging, overcoaching, overemphatic, overmatching, overreaching, underachieve. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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