storage

nounverbcommon in dialogue

United Kingdom//ˈstɔː.ɹɪd͡ʒ//
Canada//ˈstɔɹ.ɪd͡ʒ//
Australia//ˈstoː.ɹɪd͡ʒ//

The act of storing goods; the state of being stored.

noun

1
The act of storing goods; the state of being stored.
There's a lot of storage in the loft.
2
An object or place in which something is stored.
Melbourne's water storages plunged by 0.7 per cent in a week, down to 33.1 per cent capacity, as Victoria recorded its second-driest January on record.
2011 (2008), Wan Renpu, Petroleum Industry Press (translator), Advanced Well Completion Engineering, page 115, Underground natural gas storages are underground facilities for storing natural gas. At present, there are three types of underground natural gas storages worldwide, which include depleted oil and gas reservoir gas storages, salt-cave gas storages and aquifer storages.
3
Any computer device, including such as a disk, on which data is stored for a longer term than main memory.
I′d recommend backing up these files to storage before reinstalling the operating system.
Secondary storages are used to store system programs (viz; operating system, assembler, interpreter, compiler and so on), data files, software packages and so on.
4
The price charged for storing goods.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *steh₂u-ro- Proto-Italic *stauros Latin *staurō Latin īnstaurō Proto-Italic *-āzi ▲ Latin -ereinflu. Latin -āre Latin īnstaurāreder. Anglo-Norman storbor. Middle English store English store Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin -āticus Latin -āticum Old French -agebor. Middle English -age English -age English storage From store + -age.

verb

1
To put into storage; to store.

Forms

plural: storages
past tense: storaged
past participle: storaged
present participle: storaging
third person singular: storages

stop · To cease moving.stopped · Not moving, but not properly parked or berthed; said also of…stopping · The act of something that stops; a halt.

storage · The act of storing goods; the state of being stored.

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