different between warehouse vs archive

English

Etymology

From ware +? house.

Noun

warehouse (plural warehouses)

1. A place for storing large amounts of products. In logistics, a place where products go to from the manufacturer before going to the retailer.

Hypernyms

• house

Derived terms

• warehouseman

Translations

Verb

warehouse (third-person singular simple present warehouses, present participle warehousing, simple past and past participle warehoused)

1. (transitive) To store in a warehouse or similar.
   • 1894, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance, Opinions of Collectors of Customs Concerning Ad Valorem and Specific Rates of Duty on Imports

     Tobacco, for instance, shrinks materially by frequent reshippings, and as all goods are warehoused as a convenience to importers, duties should be paid on what the importer receives.

2. (transitive) To confine (a person) to an institution for a long period.
3. (transitive, business) To acquire and then shelve, simply to prevent competitors from acquiring it.

   the warehousing of syndicated TV shows

Translations

Anagrams

• houseware

English

Etymology

From French archive, from Latin arch?vum, from Ancient Greek ??????? (arkheîon, “town hall”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???ka?v/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???ka?v/, enPR: är'k?v'
• Hyphenation: ar?chive

Noun

archive (plural archives)

1. A place for storing earlier, and often historical, material. An archive usually contains documents (letters, records, newspapers, etc.) or other types of media kept for historical interest.
2. The material so kept, considered as a whole (compare archives).

3. (ecology) Natural deposits of material, regarded as a record of environmental changes over time.

   soil archive; peat archive

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

archive (third-person singular simple present archives, present participle archiving, simple past and past participle archived)

1. To put into an archive.

Synonyms

• archivize

Translations

Anagrams

• Varchie

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?.?iv/

Etymology 1

From archives.

Noun

archive f (plural archives)

1. (rare) an item in an archive, a document kept for historical interest
2. (rare) singular of archives

Etymology 2

Verb

archive

1. first-person singular present indicative of archiver
2. third-person singular present indicative of archiver
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of archiver
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of archiver
5. second-person singular imperative of archiver

Further reading

• “archive” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• chavire, chaviré

Spanish

Verb

archive

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of archivar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of archivar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of archivar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of archivar.