Definition of archive
1 : a place in which public records or historical materials (such as documents) are preserved an archive of historical manuscripts a film archive; also : the material preserved —often used in plural reading through the archives
2 : a repository or collection especially of information
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Recent Examples of archive from the Web
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Teams and players referenced from Baseball-Almanac.com, Baseball-Reference.com, ModernBaseball.com, TheBaseballCube.com and Miami Herald archives.
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Rights campaigners also want France’s new government to open archives expected to reveal complicity between French officials—not only bankers—and the génocidaires.
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Police report: Fort Worth officer detains suspect in road rage incident This report contains information from Star-Telegram archives.
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This recipe is from our archive of Derby-themed party dishes.
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Upon analyzing over 2,000 ads from the Cannes archives spanning a 10-year period, researchers found that advertisements featured twice as many male characters as female characters.
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Then, on November 11, 2018, the 100th anniversary of the end of the war, the collection will go online as an archive free to the public.
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Fitzgerald’s personal collection is at Princeton, which would not allow Sudia-Skehan into the archives.
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Unlike other archives, Walker plans to develop algorithms that will allow users to better understand the connections between women across historical eras, nationalities, and religions.
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Origin and Etymology of archive
French & Latin; French, from Latin archivum, from Greek archeion government house (in plural, official documents), from archē rule, government — more at arch-
archive
Definition of archive
archived
;archiving
transitive verb
: to file or collect in or as if in an archive archive documents archived tissue samples
Examples of archive in a Sentence
The organization was devoted to cataloging and archiving printed materials on the labor movement.
She archived her e-mail messages in a folder on her hard drive.
a collection of archived articles
Recent Examples of archive from the Web
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The group’s co-founder, Randy Burns, continues to archive the history of his people and is currently writing various books.
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Hersl's remarks were live streamed on the web and are archived for viewing on the county government's website.
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Calls to acquaintances, friends, and old flames could be archived and searched in the same way that social-media messages and emails are, or intercepted and hoarded by law-enforcement agencies.
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Kitzhaber used a private email account for state business, but messages from a second account that was reportedly limited to personal use were also inadvertently archived by the state.
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The meetings are shown and archived on the county schools website, and members of the community can post comments by email.
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Trump later deleted the tweet, according to FactBase, which archives his tweets and other communications.
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Brazil and Norway have already archived their constitutions and important historical papers there.
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His musings are archived on davidroper.blogspot.com/
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Origin and Etymology of archive
see 1archive
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Definition of archive for English Language Learners
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: to collect and store materials (such as recordings, documents, or computer files) so that they can be found and used when they are needed
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playDefinition of archive for Students
: a place in which public records or historical papers are saved
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