storage
/'stɔ:ridʤ/
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Definition
- Noun:
- The act or process of keeping something in a specific place for future use: "Storage" refers to the action or method of placing items somewhere to preserve them until needed.
- A space or facility used for keeping things: "Storage" can also mean the physical location, such as a room, building, or container, where items are kept.
- (Computing) The retention of data in a computer's memory or on a digital medium: In technology, "storage" denotes the process and capacity for saving digital information.
Examples of Usage
- Noun (Act/Process):
- The storage of perishable goods requires refrigeration.
- Data storage has become much cheaper over the years.
- Noun (Physical Space):
- We rented a storage unit for our extra furniture.
- The house has ample storage in the attic and basement.
Advanced Usage
- "In storage": Describes items that have been placed in a facility for safekeeping, typically not for immediate use.
- Their boat is in storage for the winter.
- "Cold storage": Refers to storage under refrigerated conditions, or metaphorically, to the postponement or suspension of a plan or project.
- The vaccine must be kept in cold storage.
- The project has been put in cold storage until next year's budget.
Variants and Related Words
- Store (verb/noun): To keep or accumulate for future use; a supply kept for future use.
- Squirrels store nuts for the winter. We have a good store of firewood.
- Storable (adjective): Capable of being stored.
- These are storable foods with a long shelf life.
Synonyms
- Deposit: The act of placing something somewhere for safekeeping.
- Repository: A place where things are stored and can be found.
- Warehousing: The business or process of storing goods in a warehouse.
Related Phrases
- Storage capacity: The maximum amount of data or material that can be held.
- This hard drive has a storage capacity of two terabytes.
- Storage device: A hardware component used to retain digital data (e.g., a hard drive, USB flash drive).
- Back up your files to an external storage device.
Related Idioms
- To have something in storage: To possess something that is not currently in use but is being kept for the future.
- I'm not using that dining set; it's all in storage.
Noun
- depositing in a warehouse
- they decided to reposition their furniture in a recommended repository in Brooklyn
- my car is in storage
- publishers reduced print runs to cut down the cost of warehousing
- an electronic memory device
- a memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached
- (computer science) the process of storing information in a computer memory or on a magnetic tape or disk
- the commercial enterprise of storing goods and materials
- a depository for goods
- storehouses were built close to the docks
- the act of storing something