storage
//ˈstɔː.ɹɪd͡ʒ//
Forms
- Plural
- storages
- present (v1)
- storage
- past (v2)
- storaged
- past participle (v3)
- storaged
- present participle
- storaging
- 3rd person singular
- storages
Definitions
1.The act of storing goods; the state of being stored.
- There's a lot of storage in the loft.
2.An object or place in which something is stored.
- Melbourne's water storages plunged by 0.7 per cent in a week, down to 33.1 per cent capacity, as Victoria recorded its second-driest January on record.
3.Any computer device, including such as a disk, on which data is stored for a longer term than main memory.
- I′d recommend backing up these files to storage before reinstalling the operating system.
- Secondary storages are used to store system programs (viz; operating system, assembler, interpreter, compiler and so on), data files, software packages and so on.
4.The price charged for storing goods.
- This is the storage room.
1.To put into storage; to store.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2914
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Synonyms
Etymology
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Italic *en
Proto-Italic *en-
Latin in-
Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-der.
Proto-Indo-European *steh₂u-ro-
Proto-Italic *stauros
Latin *staurō
Latin īnstaurō
Proto-Italic *-āzi
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Latin -ereinflu.
Latin -āre
Latin īnstaurāreder.
Anglo-Norman storbor.