storagen.
/ˈstɔːrɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈstɔrɪdʒ/ 1. Capacity or space for storing.
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the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > capacity for storage
storagea1625
store-room1783
bestowage1864
society > computing and information technology > hardware > secondary storage > [noun]
storage1946
storage unit1951
a1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Coxcombe i. iii, in Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Nn2/1 They are made like Carrecks only strength and storage.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Storage, Warehouse room for Goods.
1848 S. C. Homersham Rep. to Directors M.S. & L. Rlwy. 55 The storage that can be made available to receive the flood water from this area of drainage ground now stands as follows.
1946 H. H. Goldstine & J. Von Neumann in J. von Neumann Coll. Wks. (1961) V. 24 It may be seen from the fact that each binary digit requires essentially one relay or one pair of vacuum tubes..that this form of storage rapidly becomes quite expensive.
1964 T. W. McRae Impact Computers on Accounting ii. 38 These early machines..were fitted with magnetic tape storage.
1973 C. W. Gear Introd. Computer Sci. vii. 309 We must develop a scheme for allocating storage as it is needed and ‘recovering’ it when structures using it are deleted.
2. figurative.1897 Outing 30 367/1 Still that stony stare and his reiterated, impertinent queries... A cold-storage air arose between us.1907 W. James Pragmatism vi. 231 When may a truth go into cold-storage in the encyclopedia? and when shall it come out for battle?1920 W. Perrett Peetickay 3 It seemed..that the thing to do would be to apply the stenographic principle to the consonants... That plan is now in cold storage.1951 A. Huxley Let. 22 July (1969) 637 It seems to be rather a shame that this anthology-with-comments, which cost me a lot of work..should remain indefinitely in cold storage.1979 A. Boyle Climate of Treason xi. 420 If he did idly question why the Soviet Union had kept their guests in cold storage for so long, Philby soon found a ready answer.
a. The action of storing or laying up in reserve; the condition or fact of being stored.
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the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun]
store1487
storing1494
bestowinga1533
reposition1617
repositure1657
magazininga1763
storage1828
1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Storage, the act of depositing in a store or warehouse for safe keeping; or the safe keeping of goods in a warehouse.
1868 Daily News 15 July The Belgian government have determined..to prohibit the manufacture, storage, or transport of that dangerous compound [nitroglycerine] in Belgium.
1869 E. A. Parkes Man. Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 13 The chances of contamination of the water during storage are very great.
1879 M. Pattison Milton xiii. 207 Milton's diction is the elaborated outcome of all the best words of all antecedent poetry, not by a process of recollected reading and storage, but [etc.].
1907 J. A. Hodges Elem. Photogr. (ed. 6) 159 Precautions should be taken for dry storage.
b. cold storage: the storing of provisions in refrigerating chambers as a means of preserving them from decay. Also attributive. Similarly cool storage (see quot. 1906).
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preserving or pickling > [noun] > preserving by cooling or freezing
refrigeration1850
cold storage1877
quick-freezing1889
chilling1902
flash freezing1942
hydro-cooling1942
freeze-drying1944
blast-freezing1948
icing1956
cook-freeze1970
cook-chill1977
sous vide1986
1877 Illustr. London News 3 Mar. 203/1 A..company called Cold Storage Wharf..undertakes to provide cold storage accommodation for fresh meat..and all produce of a perishable nature, from all parts of the world.
1895 Daily News 23 Nov. 3/2 We have now a very large capital..invested in cold storage premises in various parts of London.
1906 Westm. Gaz. 27 July 7/3 To ensure that the cheese is delivered in uniform good condition the temperature of the four chambers..will be maintained at 45deg. to 48deg. This is known as ‘cool storage,’ which is distinct from cold storage.
1926 Daily Express 11 May 1/3 No difficulty was experienced at any of the cold storage centres.
1933 Discovery Apr. 126/1 Canning and freezing both eliminate the risk of spoilage by moulds and bacteria which are a constant danger in cold storage.
1946 Nature 21 Dec. 920/2 Fruit cold-storage research has continued.
c. (See quot. 1893.)
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > galvanism, voltaism > voltaic or galvanic battery > [noun] > storage battery > charging of
storage1881
charge1887
1881 S. P. Thompson in Jrnl. Soc. Arts 30 30/1 The Storage of Electricity.
1893 T. O'C. Sloane Standard Electr. Dict. 495 Storage of electricity. Properly speaking electricity can only be stored statically or in static condensers, such as Leyden jars. The term has been popularly applied to the charging of secondary or storage batteries, in which there is really no such thing as a storage of electricity, but only a decomposition and opposite combination brought about, which leave the battery in a condition to give a current.
d. Computing. The placing or keeping of data and instructions in a device from which they can be retrieved as needed.
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society > computing and information technology > data > database > [noun] > storage
storage1909
stack1960
1909 Sci. Proc. Royal Dublin Soc. 12 80 The present design of the machine provides for the storage of 192 Variables of twenty figures each.
1945 J. Von Neumann in B. Randell Origins Digital Computers: Sel. Papers (1973) 358 R has also the properties of a memory. Indeed, it is the natural medium for long time storage of all the information obtained by the automatic device on various problems.
1958 Listener 11 Dec. 983/2 For high-speed storage, the magnetic cores of the present machines will give way to films of special iron alloys deposited in vacuo upon ceramic plates.
1978 J. P. Hayes Computer Archit. & Organization v. 325 The physical processes involved in storage are sometimes inherently unstable, so that stored information may be lost over a period of time.
3. A place where something is stored.
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the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > place where anything is or may be stored
aumbry1356
promptuary?a1425
repository1485
staple1523
magazine1583
reposement1592
repertory1593
rendezvous1608
reserve1612
conservatory1624
reconditory1633
dormerc1640
stowagea1641
depositum1646
repositary1650
magazine storehousea1654
deposit1719
reservoir1739
battery1748
depository1750
storage1775
depot1795
depositary1797
repertorium1797
rua1831
stowaway1913
1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Storage, a place in which stores are laid up.
1865 E. Burritt Walk to Land's End vii. 241 The whole of Dartmoor seems to be a storage of this valuable stone [sc. granite].
4. Rent paid for warehousing.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > [noun] > for storage facilities
housage1578
cellarage1762
storage1775
warehousing1795
boomage1862
sideage1868
yardage1868
yard-money1884
warehouseage1915
1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Storage,..the hire paid for storing goods in a warehouse.
1809 R. Langford Introd. Trade 134 Storage, warehouse rent.
1819 W. Cobbett Year's Resid. U.S.A. ii. xiv. 288 This very salt, when brought here from England, has all the charges of freight, insurance, wharfage, storage, to pay.
1862 W. Waterston Man. Commerce 303 Storeage, a charge for warehouse rent.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
storage bin n.
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1900 Engin. Mag. 19 753/1 The storage bins for ore, limestone, and coke.
storage capacity n.
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1868 in Encycl. Brit. XVI. 458/1 Sixty-seven reservoirs..having a storage capacity of 336,000,000 feet.
storage charge n.
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1884 Law Times Rep. 49 742/2 The charges in question were warehouse and storage charges.
storage company n.
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1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 19 July 5/2 The prospects of electric light companies in general, and storage companies in particular, have of late been so much overcast that [etc.].
storage device n.
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1946 Electr. Engin. (U.S.) 65 389 Each is a complete adding and subtracting machine, and functions as a storage or memory device.
1955 IRE Trans. Electronic Computers 4 16/1 This report deals with a storage device utilizing magnetic cores to achieve fairly large amounts of information storage with a relatively moderate amount of circuitry.
1972 D. Lewin Theory & Design Digital Computers vi. 185 Storage devices may have either destructive or non-destructive read-out of the stored data.
storage dump n.
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1882 Rep. Prec. Met. U.S. 98 Storage dumps have been built.
storage house n.
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1856 S. Warner Hills of Shatemuc viii The mill and storeage house kept and owned by Mr. Cowslip.
storage hut n.
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1894 Westm. Gaz. 8 May 5/1 On making inquiries as to who were in the storage hut at the time.
storage medium n.
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1947 A. W. Burks et al. in J. von Neumann Coll. Wks. (1963) V. 40 There still remains the problem of automatic integration of this storage medium with the machine.
1966 Sci. Amer. Sept. 80/1 Magnetic materials..supply the principal storage medium in computers.
storage pile n.
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1913 Times 9 Aug. 19/3 At the present time there are 13,114 tons of coal in the storage pile.
storage power n.
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1881 S. P. Thompson in Jrnl. Soc. Arts 30 34/2 Storage power lessened by heat.
storage register n.
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1946 Ann. Computation Lab. Harvard Univ. 1 14 Each storage register consists of twenty-four electro-magnetic counter wheels.
1965 S. H. Hollingdale & G. C. Tootill Electronic Computers 114 In most computers an individual storage register is not a separate entity, either physically or conceptually, and the term storage location is more appropriate.
storage rent n.
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1868 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 341 I paid a month's storage rent in advance.
storage reservoir n.
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1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 91 For a supply of water during the dry season we rely almost exclusively upon our storage-reservoirs.
storage-room n.
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1848 S. C. Homersham Rep. to Directors M.S. & L. Rlwy. 37 This amount of storage room is by no means large.
1891 Daily News 24 Oct. 7/4 On going into the storage-room he saw a number of pieces of meat.
storage space n.
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1936 Discovery May 158/1 It may well revolutionise library methods and solve the eternal question of storage-space.
1979 D. Mallett Greatest Collector ix. 84 Richard Wallace..bought no furniture, not wishing, perhaps, to add to the already acute problems of storage space.
storage warehouse n.
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1904 Westm. Gaz. 15 Dec. 11/3 The paper also recommended a system of storage warehouses as a remedy for low prices arising from exceptionally large crops.
C2. Special combinations.
storage battery n. a secondary battery in which a supply of electricity is accumulated.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > galvanism, voltaism > voltaic or galvanic battery > [noun] > storage battery
storage battery1881
storage cell1881
1881 S. P. Thompson in Jrnl. Soc. Arts 30 35/2 This is one of the rocks on which amateur constructors of storage batteries have come to grief.
1898 A. Treadwell Storage Battery 206 Probably the largest installation for the operation of storage-battery cars is in Paris.
storage-bellows n. (see quot.).
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > wind-chest
wind-chest1797
reservoir1840
wind-box1852
wind-cistern1880
storage-bellows1891
1891 Cent. Dict. at Organ Storage-bellows, horizontal bellows into which the feeders open, and in which the air is kept at a uniform pressure by means of weights.
storage cell n. an electrical accumulator.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > galvanism, voltaism > voltaic or galvanic battery > [noun] > storage battery
storage battery1881
storage cell1881
1881 S. P. Thompson in Jrnl. Soc. Arts 30 30/2 It is doubly difficult to find, in the electric accumulator or storage cell, anything which can be called stored electricity.
storage heater n. (a) a heating apparatus for railway carriages, operating by means of stored heat; (b) = night storage heater n. at night n. and int. Compounds 4.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > devices for heating buildings, rooms, etc. > operated by stored heat
storage heater1894
block heater1958
block-storage heater1960
night storage heater1963
night storage radiator1970
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > devices for heating buildings, rooms, etc. > operated by stored heat > in a railway carriage
storage heater1894
1894 Westm. Gaz. 10 Dec. 8/1 The storage heater is partially filled with a solution of salt water or acetate of soda.
1961 Listener 19 Oct. 629/1 For an existing house the storage-heater system works out very favourably. A good-looking storage-heater with thermostatic control..costs £22 10s. 6d.
1977 B. Pym Quartet in Autumn x. 88 Mrs Pope's sister apparently being too mean to switch on the storage heaters before January.
storage heating n. heating by means of storage heaters.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > [noun] > heating of building > specific system of
radiant heating1825
central heating1871
baseboard heating1908
pressure jet1910
space heating1930
ondol1935
gas firing1961
storage heating1961
microbore1968
1961 Listener 19 Oct. 629/1 A storage-heating installation.
1961 Listener 19 Oct. 629/2 The chief disadvantage of storage-heating is the comparatively slow reaction to sudden big outside-temperature changes.
storage life n. (see quot. 19711).
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > preservation from injury or destruction > [noun] > preservation from decay, loss, or destruction > preservation for future use > length of time a thing may be preserved
storage life1971
1971 Gloss. Terms Quality Assurance (B.S.I.) 8 Storage life, the specified length of time prior to use for which items which are inherently subject to deterioration are deemed to remain fit for use under prescribed conditions.
1971 Country Life 9 Sept. 643/1 How can the storage life of vacuum-packed bacon be extended?
storage location n. Computing a place in a store capable of storing one unit of data and usually specifiable by an address.
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society > computing and information technology > hardware > [noun] > primary storage or main memory > areas or blocks
memory cell1892
storage location1949
cell1950
1949 D. R. Hartree Calculating Instruments & Machines 96 Different means have to be used for identification of a storage location on a wire.
1964 T. W. McRae Impact Computers on Accounting i. 10 If we have 100 storage locations, each one of which can store one character, we will divide this up into ten words, each word containing ten storage locations.
storage protection n. Computing the protection of storage locations against unauthorized or accidental reading or writing.
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society > computing and information technology > hardware > secondary storage > [noun] > protection
write protection1961
storage protection1965
write-protect1966
1965 G. B. Davis Introd. Electronic Computers 223 A storage protection feature is an optional feature not usually found on small computers.
1970 O. Dopping Computers & Data Processing ix. 128 In a computer with storage protection, a program can modify the contents of storage only within a prescribed area assigned to the program.
storage ring n. Physics an approximately circular accelerator in which particles can be effectively stored by being made to circulate continuously at a high energy.
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the world > matter > physics > atomic physics > particle physics > particle accelerator > [noun] > types of
linac1950
storage ring1956
van de Graaff1973
1956 G. K. O'Neill in Physical Rev. 102 1418/2 (heading) Storage-ring synchrotron: device for high-energy physics research.
1956 G. K. O'Neill in Physical Rev. 102 1418/2 Two ‘storage rings’, focusing magnets containing straight sections one of which is common to both rings, are built near the accelerator.
1965 New Scientist 18 Mar. 692/2 They accelerated two comparatively low energy beams of electrons to 300 MeV in a linear accelerator; they steered these beams into two ‘storage rings’ built adjacent to one another in the form of a figure of eight, and finally made them collide head-on at the point where the two rings touch.
1978 Nature 20 July 202/1 PETRA, Europe's 19 GeV on 19 GeV electron-positron storage ring under construction..near Hamburg, has circulated its first beam around the ring and stored it ‘for several minutes’.
storage station n. a place at which electric current is stored for distribution for lighting purposes.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrical power, electricity > place of power generation > [noun] > collector > storage place
storage station1889
1889 Daily News 28 Nov. 6/1 The electric current will in the first place be transmitted..from Draycott-place to the three ‘storage’ stations.
storage tank n. a tank for storage (e.g. of petrol).
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the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > place where anything is or may be stored > receptacle > for liquids
vata1225
vessel1340
cistern1382
reservoir1686
tank1690
pressure tank1862
storage tank1897
pillow tank1951
1897 P. Dawson Electr. Railways, etc. 366 The required compressed air is carried in a storage tank provided under each car.
storage tube n. Electronics any of various kinds of electron tube which store the information or image applied to them so that it can be retrieved at a later time.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic devices or components > electron tubes > [noun] > other specific electron tubes
phasitron1946
storage tube1946
travelling wave tube1946
1946 Radar: Summary Rep. & Harp Project (U.S. National Defense Res. Comm., Div. 14) 144/1 Storage tube.
1947 Electronics Sept. 80/1 Specific applications of this storage tube include use in simultaneous multicolor and three-dimensional presentation of radar or sonar data.
1975 D. G. Fink Electronics Engineers' Handbk. vii. 30 The correlation is a storage tube that receives a visual input to a photoemissive film..and later compares the original image with a similar image.
storage tuber n. a tuber forming a reservoir of nourishment for the plant.
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the world > plants > part of plant > root > [noun] > tuber
clog1597
tuber1668
tuberous root1668
tubercle1728
storage tuber1914
1914 Bower Addr. Brit. Assoc. in Nature 24 Sept. 103/1 The plant is well known to botanists as regards its external features, its annual storage tuber, [etc.].
storage unit n. (a) one of a set of domestic cupboards; (b) a unit that serves as storage for a computer.
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society > computing and information technology > hardware > secondary storage > [noun]
storage1946
storage unit1951
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > cupboard or cabinet > [noun] > other cupboards or cabinets
Flanders chest1400
warestall1508
livery cupboard1571
boy1656
by-closet1696
corner-cupboard1711
India cabinet1721
pot-cupboard1789
housemaid's cupboard1843
monocleid1885
vargueño1911
console1925
cocktail cabinet1928
storage unit1951
1951 Festival of Brit.: Catal. Exhibits: South Bank Exhib. (H.M.S.O.) 125/2 Storage unit.
1964 T. W. McRae Impact Computers on Accounting vii. 199 A magnetic tape reel is a remarkably compact storage unit.
1978 J. McNeil Consultant xi. 117 Two lines of storage units ran at right angles to the wall.
1978 J. Kellock Elem. Accounting xii. 215 Hardware includes the storage unit, arithmetic unit, control unit, and all the input and output devices used with the computer.
storage wall n. a partition wall consisting of cupboards, often designed to be opened from either side.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > wall of building > [noun] > other specific types of wall
firewall?1666
truss-partition1823
bearing wall1833
sleeper wall1845
curtain wall1859
fender wall1894
cavity wall1910
apron wall1934
storage wall1945
spine wall1949
curtain walling1958
sleeper walling1971
Trombe1978
1945 G. Nelson & H. N. Wright Tomorrow's House xi. 132 (caption) It is only a step to the use of such equipment [sc. storage cabinets] to form the walls themselves—a device which we have named the ‘storagewall’.
1959 House & Garden July 43/2 The dining-room, linked to the kitchen by a storage wall.
1970 Observer 18 Oct. 35/1 Ideally, every room in every house needs a storage wall.
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storage area network n. Computing a network of storage devices that appears as a single storage device to connected systems; abbreviated SAN.
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1997 Business Wire (Nexis) 4 Mar. A pre-integrated, turn-key package for deploying Fibre Channel in Storage Area Network (SAN) environments.
2003 National Post (Canada) 11 Apr. be 1 (heading) Medical services are delivered faster and cheaper using a storage area network.
2014 PCMag.com (Nexis) 20 Jan. For a small or micro business, a NAS is a better option than, say, a storage area network (SAN).
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