ARCHIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does archive mean? 

• ARCHIVE (noun)
  The noun ARCHIVE has 1 sense:

1. a depository containing historical records and documents

  Familiarity information: ARCHIVE used as a noun is very rare.

• ARCHIVE (verb)
  The verb ARCHIVE has 1 sense:

1. put into an archive

  Familiarity information: ARCHIVE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARCHIVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A depository containing historical records and documents

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("archive" is a kind of...):

deposit; depositary; depository; repository (a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "archive"):

chancery (an office of archives for public or ecclesiastic records; a court of public records)

Derivation:

archival (of or relating to or contained in or serving as an archive)

archive (put into an archive)

archivist (a person in charge of collecting and cataloguing archives)

• ARCHIVE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they archive    ... he / she / it archives   
Past simple: archived   
Past participle: archived   
-ing form: archiving   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Put into an archive

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

archive; file away

Hypernyms (to "archive" is one way to...):

collect; pull in (get or bring together)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They archive the newspapers

Derivation:

archive (a depository containing historical records and documents)

 Context examples 

It was a mighty consolation to us all to know that you were runnin' loose and had the archives in your keepin'.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This study analyzed five eclipses from archived Hubble data and two from Spitzer.

(WASP-18b Has Smothering Stratosphere Without Water, NASA)

A person primarily responsible for database creation, data collection, validation, integration, coding, review, quality evaluation, and archiving, as well as for preparation of reports and data displays.

(Data Manager, NCI Thesaurus)

A quality system concerned with the organizational process and the conditions under which non-clinical health and environmental safety studies are planned, performed, monitored, recorded, archived and reported.

(Good Laboratory Practice Type, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A "calendar" of the past has revolutionized the dating of geologic archives, identifying ages of geologic periods based on astronomy.

(Deep-sea sediments lead to new understanding of solar system, National Science Foundation)

I fancy that among your extensive archives, Watson, you may find some which were nearly as obscure.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Moreover, digital mammograms are easily archived and electronically transferable, making them ideal for teaching purposes and for evaluation during long-distance telemedicine consultations.

(Digital mammography, NCI Thesaurus)

Researchers Emily Sneff and Danielle Allen found the document in the archives of the small town of Chichester in Sussex, in southern England.

(Parchment Copy of Declaration of Independence Found in Small British Town, VOA)

Comparative genomic hybridization is an ideal tool for analyzing chromosomal imbalances in archived tumor material and for examining possible correlations between these findings and tumor phenotypes.

(Comparative Genomic Hybridization, NCI Thesaurus)

The summary-level data are available to the public through the GTEx Portal, and the most recent release of the raw data has been submitted to the Database of Genotypes and Phenotypes (dbGaP), an archive of results from studies that investigate the genomic contributions to phenotypes (physical characteristics or disease states).

(NIH completes atlas of human DNA differences that influence gene expression, National Institutes of Health)