different between storage vs stowage

English

Etymology

From store +? -age.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?st??.??d??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?st?.??d??/
• Rhymes: -????d?

Noun

storage (usually uncountable, plural storages)

1. (uncountable) The act of storing goods; the state of being stored.

   There's a lot of storage space in the loft.

2. (usually countable) An object or place in which something is stored.
   • 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.

   • 2012, A. Grinham, B. Gibbes, D. Gale, M. Watkinson, M. Bartow (University of Queensland), Extreme rainfall and drinking water quality: a regional perspective, C. A. Brebbia, Water Pollution XI, page 187,

     Low impact storages included the northern and southern region?s Cooloolabin Dam, Baroon Pocket Dam, Leslie Harrison Dam, Hinze Dam and Little Nerang Dam. Highly impacted storages included central region?s Wivenhoe Dam, Somerset Dam and North Pine Dam (Fig. 2), where TSS concentrations in these central storages where^[sic] more than double compared to northern and southern storages (Fig. 2A).

3. (usually uncountable, computer hardware) Any computer device, including such as a disk, on which data is stored for a longer term than memory.

   I?d recommend backing up these files to storage before reinstalling the operating system.

   • 2007, Ramesh Bangia, Computer Fundamentals and Information Technology, Firewall Media, India, page 43,

     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. (uncountable) The price charged for storing goods.

Usage notes

The plural form appears to be more common in Australian English.

Hyponyms

• (computing): cloud storage, digital storage

Derived terms

• (computing): client-side-storage, server-side-storage
• warm storage

Translations

Verb

storage (third-person singular simple present storages, present participle storaging, simple past and past participle storaged)

1. To put into storage; to store.

Anagrams

• Argotes, OR gates, ergosta, garotes, orgeats, toe rags, toerags

English

Etymology

stow +? -age

Noun

stowage (countable and uncountable, plural stowages)

1. The act or practice of stowing.

   the stowage of cargo

2. A place where things are stowed.

   Accommodations were so poor I think we were in stowage, with the rest of the cargo.

3. Things that are stowed.

   Our stowage disappeared down the chute, into the employee only cargo area, never to be seen again by man.

4. Amount of room for storing things.

   The reduction in the ship's size naturally reduced her stowage.

5. A charge for stowing and storage.

   We'll have to pay the stowage if we want our crate back.

Translations

Anagrams

• towages