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Definitions: Repository |
RepositoryNoun1. A facility where things can be deposited for safekeeping. 2. A person to whom a secret is entrusted. 3. A burial vault (usually for some famous person). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "repository" was first used: 1485. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Computing | Repository 1. |
Archeological | "A facility such as a museum, archeological center, laboratory or storage facility that is managed by a university, college, museum, or other educational or scientific institution, a federal, state, or local government agency, or Indian tribe that can provide professional, systematic, and accountable curatorial services on a long-term basis." (36 CFR 79, Section 79.4(j)). (references) |
Information | A warehouse used by one or more libraries with storage for little used library materials, the ownership of which retained by the depositing library. Source: European Union. (references) |
Public Administration | Repository for an organised body of records produced or received by a public, semipublic, institutional or business entity in the transaction of its affairs and preserved by it or its successors. Source: European Union. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | REPOSITORY. A lock-up or spunging-house, a gaol. Also livery stables where horses and carriages are sold by auction. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: RepositorySynonyms: deposit (n), depository (n), monument (n), secretary (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Store | Storehouse, storeroom, storecloset; depository, depot, cache, repository, reservatory, repertory; repertorium; promptuary, warehouse, entrepot, magazine; buttery, larder, spence; garner, granary; cannery, safe-deposit vault, stillroom; thesaurus; bank; (treasury); armory; arsenal; dock; gallery, museum, conservatory; menagery, menagerie. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | AML. Kaaba-Texas Mine Repository Area, Tailings.Credit: Jake Jakaboski. |  | AML Kaaba-Texas Mine Repository, Spokane District, Washington.Credit: John Craig. |
 | AML Poorman, Vale District, Oregon. Digging test hole for Repository.Credit: John Craig. |  | Photograph, mounted on a carte de visite, by S.J. Wiseman's Art Repository, Southampton, England. It was probably taken in June 1864, soon after the action between CSS Alabama, Semme's command, and USS Kearsarge. See Photo # NH 91649-A for a photograph of the reverse of the original carte de visite.Credit: NAVY. |
 | Architectural drawing for a fireproof repository for the Treasury Department, Washington, D.C.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The tomb of Washington / engraved by W. Woodruff Cunr. for the Ladies Repository.Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
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Health | Because the extracellular matrix that surrounds cells is a repository for many inhibitory substances, understanding the interaction of cells with the extracellular matrix is an important focus of research. (references) | |
The cost of long distance telephone calls prohibits some caregivers from inquiring about available services, and there is no central repository for current and accurate information on resources, regulations, etc. Better information/dissemination mechanisms in rural areas could help address the isolation of both patients and caregivers. (references) | ||
Business | Another source of information is the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) in New York. ANSI is the official United States repository for all ISO member countries and carries English language translations of foreign standards. (references) | |
Economic History | France | Their functions include the preparation and recording of notarial acts (e.g., wills, deeds, acts of incorporation, marriage, contracts), the administration and settlements of estates (excluding litigation in court) and serving as the repository of wills. (references) |
Trade | Liberia | Currently, banks in Liberia operate only as a repository for funds. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | OLYMPIAN, adj. Relating to a mountain in Thessaly, once inhabited by gods, now a repository of yellowing newspapers, beer bottles and mutilated sardine cans, attesting the presence of the tourist and his appetite. His name the smirking tourist scrawls Upon Minerva's temple walls, Where thundered once Olympian Zeus, And marks his appetite's abuse. Averil Joop |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Repository" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Repository" is used about 279 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) | 100% | 279 | 17,495 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "repository": Ada Software Repository ♦ furniture repository ♦ records repository ♦ scheme Repository. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "repository": repository-based, repository--strongly. | |
Ending with "repository": nuclear-waste-repository. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "repository"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | person i besuar, depo (buttery, closet, deposit, depository, depot, magazine, repertory, storage, store, storehouse, storeroom, strongroom, war house, warehouse, yard). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كاتم الأسرار, منطقة غنية بالموارد الطبيعية, مستودع (depository, depot, magazine, store, storehouse, storeroom, warehouse), قابل للخزن, زخيرة, المستأمن. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | съкровищница (repertory, store-house, thesaurus, treasury), склад (depositary, depository, depot, lazaretto, outlet, paddock, stock-pot, stockroom, storage, store, store-house, stowage), хранилище (depositary, depository, garner, safe deposit, stockroom, storage, store), лице на което се поверява нещо, лице на което се доверява нещо. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 贮藏". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zdroj (fountain-head, mine, origin, parent, source), skladištì (depot, storage, storehouse, warehouse), sklad (depot, stock, store, storeroom, warehouse), schránka (box, dispenser, receiver). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | depot (deposit, depositary, depository, depot, drop crater, droplet impaction, dump, heap, point deposit, spray coating, spray deposit, storage library, tip, train depot, yard), bogmagasin (storage library). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | repository, depot (affiliate, affiliation, branch, deposit, deposition, depository, depot, sediment, stockpile, storage library, train depot, yard), archiefbewaarplaats (archives, records repository). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مخزن (Bomb, Cache, Depository, Fountain, Magazine, Repertory, Reservoir, Stank, Storage, Store, Storehouse, Sump, Tank, Thesaurus, Warehouse), صندوق تابوت , انبار (Arsenal, Cellar, Depository, Depot, Entrepot, Garner, Godown, Lodge, Repertory, Sluice, Store, Tender, Thesaurus), رازدار (Confidant, Confident, Secretary), ظرف (Adverb, Can, Container, Dish, Receptacle, Vase, Vessel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | varastokirjasto (storage library), kuvauskanta. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | mine, entrepôt, dépôt d'archives (records repository), dépôt, centrale de dépôt, caveau d'hivernage. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Aufbewahrungsort (place to keep). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αποθήκη (barn, bin, cellar, containment, depository, depot, granary, hutch, locker, loft barn, promptuary, stock room, stockpile, stockroom, storage, store, storehouse, storeroom, vault, warehouse), ταμείο (capital, cash, cash balances, cash desk, cash in hand, cash on hand, cash resources, coffer, fonds, purse, resources, ticket office, till, treasury). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | משכן (habitation, haunt, home, house), בית קבול (receptacle), בית ' זים (archives, treasury). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | raktár (berth, depository, depot, dump, go down, godown, hold, magazine, stock, stock room, stockpile, storage, store, store room, storehouse, warehouse, yard), tárház (garner, quarry, storehouse), depó (depot, store), bizalmasa vkinek (confident, to be in sy's confidence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | miniera (mine, pit, source), magazzino (commissary, depot, magazine, staging area, stockroom, storage, storage house, store, storehouse, storeroom, warehouse), deposito (account, accumulation, attic, bailment, bestowal, check in, commissary, deposit, deposition, depository, depot, down payment, drift, drop crater, droplet impaction, leaving, loft, magazine, memory, pawn, payment on account, pledge, point deposit, precipitate, sediment, sedimentation, spray coating, spray deposit, stockpile, stockroom, storage, storage house, store, storehouse, storeroom, unloading point, warehouse), centro di deposito (storage library). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 宝物殿 (repository or treasure house, sanctuary), 宝殿 (repository or treasure house, sanctuary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ほうで" (electrical discharge, repository or treasure house, sanctuary), ほうもつで" (repository or treasure house, sanctuary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 창 (godown, Warehouse, Warehouses). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | stoyr (deposit, depot, fund, hoard, repertory, still room, stock, store, storehouse, storeroom, supply). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | epositoryray repositório, receptáculo (coalburner, container, drain pan, floral bud, pocket, receiver, receptacle, torus, vessel, water-craft), museu (museum, mush), loja (boutique, company, empower, outlier, premium, shop, store, toy shop, warehouse), armazém (boutique, depository, depot, garner, grog, magazine, shop, staging area, stockpile, storage, storage house, store, storehouse, warehouse). (various references) repertoriu (collection, repertory), prãvãlie (shop, stall, store, store-keeper), magazin (boutique, emporium, magazine, pictorial, shop, store, storehouse), magazie (bank, box, depot, magazine, shed, storage, store room, storehouse, warehouse), depozitar (depositary, depository, Guardian, keeper), depozit (bank, deposit, depot, dump, stack, stock, storage, store, store room, storehouse, stores, warehouse), cavou (tomb, vault), bazar (bazaar, bazar, fair), antrepozit (depot, go down, storehouse, warehouse, wharf). (various references) склеп (burial vault, charnel house, charnel-house, crypt, ossuary, vault), склад (depository, depot, repertory, reservoir, stock room, stockroom, storage, store, storehouse). (various references) lann (an inclosure, blade, house, inclosure, scale as of, sword). (various references) skladište (depot, magazine, stack, stock, stockroom, store, storehouse, storeroom, warehouse), magacin (magazine, stockroom, warehouse), grobnica (crypt, mausoleum, sepulchre, sepulture, tomb, vault). (various references) repositorio, depositario (bailee, custodian, depositary, depositor, depository, nominee, security custodian, trustee), depósito (accretion, aggradation, alluviation, barrel, bladder, bladder tank, bond, bosh, cistern, containment, deposit, depository, depot, down payment, escrow, foots, gas reservoir, kettle, Lido, morgue, ore body, orebody, payment on account, Pinfold, receiver, reservoir, reservoir compound, reservoir species, retainer, sediment, sedimentation, silting, sink, stockroom, storage, store, storehouse, storeroom, submission, sump, tank, warehouse, warehousing, water bosh, water tank, yard), central de depósito (storage library), almacén (depot, grocers, grocer's shop, grocery, honey body, magazine, shed, shop, staging area, stockroom, storage, storage house, store, storehouse, storeroom, super, warehouse, yard). (various references) förvaringsplats. (various references) zengin kaynak (repertory, treasure house, treasure trove), sırdaş (confidant, confidante, in the secret, intimate, the initiated), muhafaza (casing, conservation, preservation, protection, tabernacle), mahzen (cellar, cistern, vault), kutu (bin, box, can, canned, carton, cartridge, case, cassette, chest, coffer), dolap (cabal, cabinet, cheating, closet, collusion, cuddy, cupboard, dodge, dope, doubling, flimflam, frame up, game, hutch, imposture, intrigue, jiggery pokery, machination, machinations, maneuver, manoeuvre, ramp, ruse, sell, trap, wardrobe, water wheel, wile), depo (depository, depot, entrepot, goods yard, packing house, receptacle, repertory, reservoir, stock room, storage, store, storeroom, tank, warehouse, yard), ambar (barn, bin, clamp, depository, hold, hutch, larder, office, silo, stock room, storage, store, storehouse, storeroom, warehouse). (various references) склеп (crypt, ossuary, sepulchre, shroud), вмістилище (container), повірник (confidant). (various references) người được ký thác điều bí mật, kho (budget, stock, stock-in-trade, storehouse, yard). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | apothecae, apothecas, promptuaria, promptuariis, promptuarium. (various references) |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | repositorium. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Repository" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: repisitory, repofitory, repositary, repositorie, Reposteria, respository. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "repository" (pronounced rēpÄ"zutô'rē) |
| 8 | -p Ä" z u t ô' r ē | depository. |
| 6 | -z u t ô' r ē | accusatory, transitory. |
| 5 | -u t ô' r ē | aleatory, ambulatory, anticipatory, articulatory, auditory, celebratory, circulatory, compensatory, conciliatory, confirmatory, confiscatory, congratulatory, contributory, declaratory, defamatory, depilatory, derogatory, dilatory, discriminatory, dormitory, excretory, exculpatory, expiratory, explanatory, exploratory, hallucinatory, incantatory, inflammatory, inhibitory, interrogatory, investigatory, laboratory, laudatory, lavatory, mandatory, migratory, nondiscriminatory, obligatory, observatory, oratory, oscillatory, participatory, predatory, preparatory, prohibitory, purgatory, reformatory, regulatory, respiratory, retaliatory, revelatory, signatory, statutory, territory. |
| 4 | -t ô' r ē | desultory, multistory, repertory, understory. |
| 3 | -ô' r ē | allegory, category, outlawry, promissory. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-o-o-p-r-r-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: posterior. | |
-2 letters: isotropy, pierrots, porosity, sorority, sportier, troopers. | |
-3 letters: isotope, isotopy, isotype, pierrot, poorest, porters, preriot, presort, pretors, prosier, prostie, pyrites, reports, reposit, rioters, riposte, roister, rooster, rooters, rootier, ropiest, royster, sootier, sporter, stooper, striper, stroyer, toreros, torpors, trooper. | |
-4 letters: esprit, osprey, otiose, oyster, poetry, poiser, poorer, pooris, porose, porter, poster, potsie, presto, pretor. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-o-o-p-r-r-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: posteriorly. | |
+2 letters: coprosperity, posteriority. | |
+3 letters: pyromorphites. | |
+4 letters: erythropoieses, erythropoiesis, microsporocyte. | |
+5 letters: crossopterygian, erythropoietins, microsporocytes. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 70 6F 73 69 74 6F 72 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . .--. --- ... .. - --- .-. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01110000 01101111 01110011 01101001 01110100 01101111 01110010 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e p o s i t o r y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0070 006F 0073 0069 0074 006F 0072 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)52718281857586818491 |
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