different between library vs depository

English

Etymology

Middle English librarie, from Anglo-Norman librarie, from Old French librairie, from Latin librarium (“bookcase, chest for books”), from librarius (“concerning books”), from liber (“the inner bark of trees; paper, parchment, book”), probably derived from a Proto-Indo-European base *leub(?)- (“to strip, to peel”). Displaced native Middle English bochus, bochous (literally “book house”), from Old English b?ch?s.

Romance cognates often mean “bookshop” instead: French librairie, Italian libreria, Spanish librería and Portuguese livraria. This is a relatively recent innovation (16th century in French), which ended up displacing the earlier sense.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?la?b?i/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?la?b???i/
• (US)
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /?la??b???i/, /?la?b???i/
  • (non-standard) IPA^(key): /?la??b??i/

The non-RP UK pronunciation /?la?b?i/ (whence the eye dialect spelling libry) exhibits haplology.

Noun

library (plural libraries)

1. An institution which holds books and/or other forms of media for use by the public or qualified people often lending them out, as well as providing various other services for its users.

   Synonym: (nonstandard) bookhouse

   Coordinate terms: bookshop, bookstore

2. (by extension) Any institution that lends out its goods for use by the public or a community.
3. A collection of books or other forms of stored information.
4. An equivalent collection of analogous information in a non-printed form, e.g. record library.
5. A room dedicated to storing books.
6. (programming) A collection of software routines that provide functionality to be incorporated into or used by a computer program.

   Coordinate term: framework

   • 2014, John Paul Mueller, Jeff Cogswell, C++ All-in-One For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons (?ISBN), page 307:

     A static library is much like any other library in that it contains a bunch of code for your application to use.

7. (genetics) A collection of DNA material from a single organism or relative to a single disease.
8. (card games) The deck or draw pile.

Synonyms

• bibliotheca (obsolete)
• bibliotheke (obsolete)

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Hindustani:
  • Hindi: ????????? f (l?ibrer?)
  • Urdu: ????????? f (l?ibrer?)
• ? Japanese: ?????? (raiburar?)

Translations

Further reading

• library on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• library (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• biraryl

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin d?posit?rium, from Latin d?positum, past participle of d?p?n?.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??p?z?t?i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /d??p?z?t??i/

Noun

depository (plural depositories)

1. A place where something is deposited, as for storage, safekeeping, or preservation; a repository.
   • 1776, United States Declaration of Independence

     He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

2. A trustee; a depositary.

Antonyms

• nondepository

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