| 单词 | depository |
| 释义 | depository (once / 6832 pages) n A depository is a place where things are kept or stored. You might call your city's Natural History Museum a depository of local dinosaur fossils. A library could also be called a book depository, since books are stored there, and the official name of Fort Knox, which once stored much of the gold in the US, is the United States Bullion Depository. The word depository literally means "place where things are deposited," from the Latin root deponere, "lay aside or deposit," combining de-, "away," and ponere, "to put." WORD FAMILYdepository: depositories USAGE EXAMPLESThat rate — the cost that banks and depository institutions charge one another for overnight loans — has only an indirect impact on mortgage rates. New York Times(Nov 23, 2016) These were the New Deal regulations, in force until the late 1990s, that kept depository banks separate from investment banks and insurance companies. New York Times(Nov 14, 2016) Those of us in the national office often volunteer at one of the thousand or so agencies served by our Greater Chicago food depository. New York Times(Nov 12, 2016) n a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper deposit, depositary, repository Hagia Sophia a 6th century masterpiece of Byzantine architecture in Istanbul; built as a Christian church, converted to a mosque in 1453, and made into a museum in the middle of the 20th century Louvre Museuman art museum that is a famous tourist attraction in Paris archive a depository containing historical records and documents bank, bank buildinga building in which the business of banking transacted dropa central depository where things can be left or picked up depository library, librarya depository built to contain books and other materials for reading and study lost-and-foundrepository in a public building where lost articles can be kept until their owners reclaim them museuma depository for collecting and displaying objects having scientific or historical or artistic value repertorya storehouse where a stock of things is kept sperm banka depository for storing sperm depot, entrepot, storage, store, storehousea depository for goods treasurya depository (a room or building) where wealth and precious objects can be kept safely athenaeum, atheneuma place where reading materials are available chanceryan office of archives for public or ecclesiastic records; a court of public records dumpa place where supplies can be stored garner, granarya storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed circulating library, lending librarylibrary that provides books for use outside the building magazine, powder magazine, powder storea storehouse (as a compartment on a warship) where weapons and ammunition are stored maildropa drop where mail can be deposited railheada railroad depot in a theater of operations where military supplies are unloaded for distribution science museuma museum that collects and displays objects having scientific interest treasure housea storehouse for treasures storage warehouse, warehousea storehouse for goods and merchandise facility, installation a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry |
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