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Storage

noun

The act of storing something.

A depository for goods. Synonyms: depot, entrepot, store, storehouse.

The commercial enterprise of storing goods and materials.

(computer science) the process of storing information in a computer memory or on a magnetic tape or disk.

An electronic memory device. Synonyms: computer memory, computer storage, memory, memory board, store.

Depositing in a warehouse. Synonyms: repositing, reposition, warehousing. "My car is in storage" , "Publishers reduced print runs to cut down the cost of warehousing"

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"Storage" Quotes from Famous Books

... has to provide light and fuel for that long half-year of darkness within the igloo. The blubber obtained in summer is carefully rendered down and stored in sealskin bags—the winter provision of gas-tank, electric storage-battery, coal-cellar, and wood-pile. In using oil for fuel, this master artificer of the North has anticipated by decades, if not centuries, the inventive adaptability of his "civilised" cousins. The blubber appears in a blanket between the skin of the animal and ...

— The New North • Agnes Deans Cameron

... not escape, Tom threw the box under the bed and rushed to a closet in the corner. Here he crouched down behind a large trunk left in the place on storage. He had scarcely secreted himself when Josiah Crabtree came in. He had shoved his key in the lock, but had failed to notice that the ...

— The Rover Boys at School • Arthur M. Winfield

... bring it from whence he started within the limits of the territory. Let him pack up in a small compass the most precious part of his inanimate household, and leave it ready for an agent to start it after he shall have found a domicil. This will save expensive storage. Then let his goods be directed to the care of some responsible forwarding merchant in a river town nearest to their final destination, that they may be taken care of and not be left exposed on the levee when they ...

— Minnesota and Dacotah • C.C. Andrews

... shelter. It was impossible for her to keep at a uniform depth unless she maintained steerage-way; that meant a great demand upon her storage batteries. She could not remain on the bottom of the sea in a heavy gale, owing to the constant "pumping" or up-and-down movements caused by the varying pressure of passing waves, unless she sought a sheltered roadstead—and sheltered ...

— The Submarine Hunters - A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War • Percy F. Westerman

... ship-owners want to keep your ships at work at something besides storage. But look there," pointing to the bales of cotton filling the immense floor; "multiply that pile by four and add the basements of two churches, and you see a reason why I should not buy above the level of the market. ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 21, July, 1859 • Various

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