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Definition: Garage |
GarageNoun1. An outbuilding (or part of a building) for housing automobiles. 2. A repair shop where cars and trucks are serviced and repaired. Verb1. Keep or store in a garage, as of a car. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "garage" was first used: 1902. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Transportation | A depot in which buses are stabled, inspected, maintained and repaired. Source: European Union. (references) |
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A garage is a building for the storage of vehicles. In British English, a garage also may be a shop where vehicles are repaired. Garage is a term used to describe several different varieties of modern electronic dance music. Usage is different in the US and UK. The term was first used in the US to describe a form of house music. The name comes from the "Paradise Garage" nightclub in New York. The evolution of house music in the UK in the 1990s led to the term being applied to a new frorm of music also known as UK Garage. This is now frequently grouped with forms like hip hop, rap and R&B under the description urban music.
None of these forms of music is in any way related to garage rock.
See also
- Garage band
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Garage."
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Garage Rock was a simple, raw form of rock & roll created by a number of American bands in the mid-'60s. Inspired by British Invasion bands like the Beatles, Kinks, and Rolling Stones, these midwestern American groups played a variation on British Invasion rock. Since they were usually young and amateurish, the results were much cruder than their inspirations but that is what made the sound exciting. Most of the band emphasized their amateurishness, playing the same three chords, bashing their guitars and growling their vocals. In many ways, the garage bands were the first wave of do-it-yourself punk rockers. Hundreds of garage bands popped up around America and a handful of them — the Shadows of Knight, the Count 5, The Seeds, the Standells — had hits, but most were destined for obscurity. In fact, nearly all of the bands were forgotten in the early '70s, but The Nuggets compilation brought them back to the spotlight.In the '80s, there was a garage rock revival that saw a number of bands earnestly trying to replicate the sound, style, and look of the '60s garage bands. This movement died down at the end of the decade but there was another revival in the 2000s with bands like The White Stripes, The Hives, The Strokes, The Libertines, The Datsuns, The D4 and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club owing more than a little to the style.
'Bands':
- 13th Floor Elevators
- The Count 5
- Dick Dale
- Electric Prunes
- Human Beinz
- Kinks
- The Nuggets
- Pretty Things
- The Seeds
- The Shadows Of Knight
- The Sonics
- The Standells
- The Stooges
- The Troggs
- Question Mark and the Mysterians
- The Ugly Ducklings
- Chocolate Watchband
- The Leaves
- Blues Magoos
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Parking facilities include indoor and outdoor private property belonging to a house, the side of the road, a parking lot or car park, and indoor and outdoor multi-level structures.
The following terms exemplify regional variations in language. All refer to outdoor multi-level parking facilities. In some regional dialects, some of these phrases refer also to indoor or single-level facilities.
Under-building parking garage (larger version)
See also Parking meter.
- Parking ramp (used in some parts of the upper Midwest, especially Minneapolis, but sometimes seen as far east as Toledo, Ohio)
- Multi-storey car park (England)
- Parkade (British Columbia)
- Parking structure (Western U.S.)
- Parking garage (Eastern USA, where this term refuses to distinguish between outdoor multi-level parking facilities and indoor parking facilities; to a Minneapolitan this term emphatically says indoor parking facility; to a Bostonian it does not.)
- Parking deck (Sighted in both New Jersey and North Carolina.)
- Carport (open-air covered parking)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Parking."
Synonym: GarageSynonym: service department (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: garaged (transportation), garaging (transportation). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Mart | Auction; flea market; yard sale, garage sale; pawn shop; antiques store; second-hand store, second time around shop, thrift shop. |
Receptacle | Coach house; garage; hangar; outhouse; penthouse; lean-to. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | You see, this is what you get in my house for spilling paint in the garage. Did I stutter (The Breakfast Club ; writing credit: John Hughes) Yes sir, we're next month's garage sale fodder for sure (Toy Story; writing credit: John Lasseter; Andrew Stanton) I'll tell you a story about my father, that car in the garage, was off limits to me. He said it was a classic, it demands respect (Rain Man; writing credit: Ronald Bass) Well I got a whole list of chores: clean the garage, paint the house (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) All you talk about is aliens and ghosts and seeing Bigfoot in your garage! (Invader ZIM; writing credit: Carel Donck) | |
Lyrics | Right next to a humungous truck in a two car garage (Forgot About Dre; performing artist: Dr. dre) | |
Clever | You are an engineer if you have a neatly sorted collection of old bolts and nuts in your garage. (references; author: unknown) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you a mechanic. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Sex Garage (1972) Buddy's Garage (1934) The Garage (1923) Monster Garage (2002) Garage Days (2002) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | CDC Garage, Atlanta, Georgia. Credit: CDC. |  | Lobster trap buoys stacked against a garage. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Perry ROV uses a "garage" to hold its umbilical. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |  | Garage and Yard at Kodiak Refuge. Credit: Alaska Historical Image Library. |
 | U.S. American National Red Cross Hospital No.4, Liverpool, England. : Exterior view- Garage and ambulances. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | King's garage, Bedford, Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Newton's Garage, Lake Ronkonkoma, Long Island, New York. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Houghton & Hurlburt Riverview auto garage, Jefferson Avenue, Detroit. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The Garage, Fort William Henry Hotel, Lake George, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Hamilton Rice Home in Newport, Rhode Island, exterior view of garage doors. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Garage door" by Ramon Salgado De La Rosa Commentary: "Iron garage door." | "Parking garage" by Aaron Benson Commentary: "Neat, huh?." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
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 | Ding ding; gas station; filling station; gasoline; grease monkey; attendant; mechanic; garage; car; auto; automobile; truck. | | Metal door; garage door; cement floor; scraping; scrape; . |
| Ding ding; gas station; filling station; gasoline; grease monkey; attendant; mechanic; garage; car; auto; automobile; truck. | ||
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Got a garage. |
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Business | Private home users mainly demand safety locks, electric fences, remote control motors for garage doors, and motion detection devices. (references) | |
The high cost of getting professional garage assistance to maintain an automobile in a roadworthy condition provides the incentive for franchise companies to come up with a quick and cheaper alternative. (references) | ||
The 1999 automotive components and accessories market size in Italy (exclusive of garage equipment and maintenance products) was valued at approximately $19.7 billion (up 8.5% compared to the previous year). (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Zimbabwe | On June 25, police arrested Dirk Wouter du Ploy, a garage manager, and charged him with breaching the LOMA after he allegedly made comments critical of President Mugabe. (references) |
Economic History | Bulgaria | This translates into permanently increasing demand for automotive after market products, service and garage equipment. (references) |
Netherlands | This development demands more sophisticated garages resulting in greater investment in high-tech garage tools and equipment. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Jerry Lewis | Now, I raise it to the volume until the pain is gone. I lower it because sometimes it's a little strong. I turn it on here, I turn it off there, and it also opens my garage, which is wonderful. |
Trisha Meili | I didn't go out through the front door of the courthouse. I went through an elevator down into a garage and got into a van and left that way. |
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| "Garage" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.35% of the time. "Garage" is used about 1,919 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) | 97.35% | 1,868 | 4,564 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.77% | 34 | 59,261 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.52% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.31% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (common) | 0.05% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,919 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "garage": bus garage ♦ garage entrance ♦ garage manager ♦ garage mechanic ♦ garage owner ♦ garage sale ♦ parking garage ♦ put in a garage. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "garage": garage-breaking, garage-bunting, garage-cheese, garage-inclined, garage-less, garage-owners, garage-type. | |
Ending with "garage": disco-garage, Mot-while-u-wait-garage, school-and-garage, stable-garage. | |
| 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 |
garage door | 3,692 | chamberlain garage door opener | 213 |
garage | 2,703 | metal garage | 188 |
monster garage | 2,214 | steel garage | 188 |
garage door opener | 2,180 | garage floor paint | 184 |
garage plan | 1,848 | build a garage | 184 |
garage sale | 869 | garage blue print | 178 |
genie garage door opener | 750 | garage sale tip | 167 |
garage kit | 617 | garage apartment plan | 163 |
garage storage | 527 | garage glamour | 162 |
garage sales | 479 | garage building plan | 159 |
gearhead garage | 444 | garage door repair | 157 |
garage cabinet | 398 | garage organization | 154 |
portable garage | 390 | griots garage | 152 |
garage organizer | 356 | overhead garage door | 143 |
genie garage door | 327 | garage sale pricing | 142 |
building a garage | 303 | free garage plan | 142 |
garage and design | 268 | garage flooring | 138 |
stanley garage door opener | 266 | garage cabinet storage | 136 |
garage floor | 250 | garage door screen | 136 |
liftmaster garage door opener | 214 | prefab garage | 129 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "garage"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | motorhawe, garage. (various references) | |
Albanian | garazh (car house, lockup). (various references) | |
Arabic | كراج, موقف (attitude, halt, park, parking lot, position, shutoff, situation, stance, stand, station, stop, taxi stand), مرأب لإيواء, ورشة عمل, أوقف (arrest, arrested, break, can, cease, challenge, check, choke, cut, cut out, discontinue, estop, halt, hinder, intercept, kill, nick, nobble, obstruct, pull in, shut off, stand, stay, stem, stop, turn off), رئب. (various references) | |
Basque | garaje. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | гараж (shed), гарирам. (various references) | |
Chinese | 车库, 車庫 . (various references) | |
Czech | garáž, benzínová stanice (petrol station), autodílna (car repair shop). (various references) | |
Danish | garage. (various references) | |
Dutch | garage (bus garage). (various references) | |
Esperanto | garaĝo, aŭtomobilejo. (various references) | |
Farsi | پهلوگرفتن درترعه , گاراژ, درگاراژگذاردن . (various references) | |
Finnish | korjaamo (repair shop), huoltoasema (gas station, service station), huoltamo, bussivarikko (bus garage), autovaja, autotalli, autokorjaamo (motor-car repair shop). (various references) | |
French | garage. (various references) | |
Frisian | garaazje. (various references) | |
German | Garage (car park), werkstatt (plant, shop, studio, workplace, workshop), Autowerkstatt. (various references) | |
Greek | γκαράζ. (various references) | |
Hawaiian | garazh. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מוסך (shed). (various references) | |
Hungarian | garázs. (various references) | |
Indonesian | garasi, bengkel (machine shop, workshop). (various references) | |
Irish | garáiste, gáráiste. (various references) | |
Italian | autorimessa, officina (repair shop, work, works, workshop). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 車庫 (car shed), 車庫 (car shed), 整備工場 (repair shop), ガリレイ式望遠鏡 (boy, Galilean telescope, Galileo, galley, garage sale, garniture), 修理屋 (repair workshop). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しゃこ (car shed, mantis crab, partridge, squilla), しゅうりや (repair workshop), せいびこうじょう (repair shop), ガレージ . (various references) | |
Korean | 차고. (various references) | |
Malay | garasi. (various references) | |
Manx | garreish, garaashtey, cur stiagh 'sy gharreish. (various references) | |
Norwegian | garasje. (various references) | |
Occitan | garatge. (various references) | |
Papiamen | garashi. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aragegay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | garagem. (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | garagem. (various references) | |
Romanian | garaj (car shed), auto-service. (various references) | |
Romansch | garascha. (various references) | |
Russian | гараж (shed). (various references) | |
Sepedi | karatahe. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | garažirati, garaža (park). (various references) | |
Sicilian | autorimessa. (various references) | |
Spanish | garaje, taller (atelier, mill, pit, shop, studio, workplace, works, workshop), cochera (depot, railway yard). (various references) | |
Swahili | banda la motokaa. (various references) | |
Swedish | garage (lockup), bilverkstad. (various references) | |
Tagalog | garáhe, taguán ng áwto. (various references) | |
Thai | เข้าอู่, โรงรถ (lockup). (various references) | |
Turkish | garaja çekmek, garaj (coach house), tamirhane (hospital, repair shop, service). (various references) | |
Turkmen | garaj (r). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | гараж (barn, car park, shed). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | ga ra, nhà để ô tô chỗ chữa ô tô. (various references) | |
Welsh | garej, modurdy (motorhouse). (various references) | |
Zulu | iligalaji, igalaji. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Middle French | 1400-1600 | garer. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "garage": garaged, garageman, garagemen, garages. (additional references) | |
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"Garage" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: agerage, agkagat, agrege, arage, farage, gaarne, gabage, Gabarek, Gadade, gadaref, galaga, Ganaveh, garabge, garace, garagen, Garajau, garaje, Gareme, garg, Gargi, garmage, Garragan, garrate, garreg, Garrigan, Gatrigg, Gavagan, gavage, geage, Girga, grage, g'rahge, graige, grige, Guaruja, Gwrageth, Karagwe, Pararge, Rauraje, Saraga. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "garage" (pronounced gerÄ"zh) |
| 3 | -er Ä" zh | barrage, mirage. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-g-r" | |
-1 letter: agger, eggar, gager. | |
-2 letters: agar, ager, area, gaga, gage, gear, raga, rage. | |
-3 letters: aga, age, are, ear, egg, era, erg, gae, gag, gar, rag, reg. | |
-4 letters: aa, ae, ag, ar, er, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-g-g-r" | |
+1 letter: aggrade, garaged, garages, garbage. | |
+2 letters: aggraded, aggrades, garbages, garganey, graftage, langrage, paragoge, saggared. | |
+3 letters: aggravate, aggregate, averaging, garageman, garagemen, garganeys, graftages, jaggaries, laagering, langrages, paragoges. | |
+4 letters: aggrandise, aggrandize, aggravated, aggravates, aggregated, aggregates, arpeggiate, brigandage, exaggerate, gangbanger, garbageman, garbagemen, gearchange, redamaging, sandbagger. | |
+5 letters: agglomerate, aggrandised, aggrandises, aggrandized, aggrandizer, aggrandizes, aggregately, aggregating, aggregation, aggregative, arpeggiated, arpeggiates, ballyragged, brigandages, exaggerated, exaggerates, exaggerator, gangbangers, gearchanges, haggardness, laggardness, reaggregate, rearranging, repackaging, sandbaggers, teargassing, variegating. | |
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