Word Finder - library

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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.

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• bookhouse

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(by extension) Any institution that lends out its goods for use by the public or a community.

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A collection of books or other forms of stored information.

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An equivalent collection of analogous information in a non-printed form, e.g. record library.

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A room dedicated to storing books.

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A collection of software routines that provide functionality to be incorporated into or used by a computer program.

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A collection of DNA material from a single organism or relative to a single disease.

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The deck or draw pile.

She left the library to return Damian's phone.

They studied together at the library on Wednesday evenings.

The city has a public library.

Everything in my library that can be scanned is on a computer.

He waited in the library until he'd composed himself and left for his suite.

Would you have entered my library if you saw me like this?

Later, he and Martha were to visit the library for more digging into the earlier disappearances now that the date of Martha's bones was better known.

The young man rose and stormed to the library door.

He tugged her hand, and she followed him out of the library and through the sprawling house and a large kitchen to the back door.

She'd seen the dark side of Dusty in his home videos in the library before she told Damian about Claire.

At the far end of the library was a creature that made her think twice about entering.

Magic vibrated in the library then faded.

If you had access to a library, its stock of medical books and journals was very small.

Dusty caught his arm and motioned for those in the library to leave.

Hell has a library, and the librarian has been teaching me about the deities through these little video tutorial things.

It has a public library.

She guided the crying woman inside to her library and dug through the small satchel near her favorite chair.

He pointed as he walked, indicating the dining room, the library, the reception room, and others, each sounding stuffier than the last and all marked by polished oak double doors.

One day as we left the library I noticed that she appeared more serious than usual, and I asked the cause.

She didn't miss the way he bristled but turned her back to him to return to the library.

He left the library and Traveled to one of the remaining, undiscovered safe houses at the base of one of the mountains.

She pushed open the cracked door to the library.

She fled up the stairs and down the hallways she'd memorized on her trip to the library.

Fred, who had tagged along, beat a hasty retreat downstairs, making the excuse of a trip to the library.

The Abbe Barthelemy procured for him a pension, with the appointment of interpreter of oriental languages at the Royal Library.

The Immortal led him down the hallway to a familiar library.

And I've got some research to do down at the library.

In 1907-1908 the university had 122 instructors, 1178 students and a library of 55,395 volumes.

It also has a lycee, training-colleges, a school of artillery, a library and several learned societies.

The text is preserved in the Maitland folio MS. in the Pepysian library, Cambridge.

A monastic library was the proper place for this gentle emotional dreamer, who clung so fondly to the ancient traditions.

The city has a fine court-house, a United States government building, a Carnegie library and a large auditorium.

The principal structures include the municipal buildings, corn exchange, library, public hall, and the market cross.

There are several fine public buildings, as the governor's palace, the new opera-house, the public library and museum of Maltese antiquities, and the auberges or lodges of the Knights of Malta (especially the Auberge de Castile) which are now used for military offices, club-rooms, and other purposes.

Among the public buildings are the Federal building, the city hall and the public library.

Geneva has a public library, a city hospital and hygienic institute.

The college had in 1908-1909 107 students, 21 instructors, and a library of 50,000 volumes and 15,000 pamphlets.

Court formed the design of writing a history of Protestantism, and made large collections for the purpose, which have been preserved in the Public Library of Geneva; but this he did not live to carry out.

His friend Chanut fell dangerously ill; and Descartes, who devoted himself to attend in the sick-room, was obliged to issue from it every morning in the chill northern air of January, and spend an hour in the palace library.

A complete French edition of the collected works was begun in the Romance Library (1907 foll.).

It contains a valuable library with many incunabula and old manuscripts, amongst which is one of the Nibelungenlied, an astronomical observatory, a collection of antiquities, and a mineral collection.

A 14th-century MS. Book of Prayers in the Francis Douce collection in the Bodleian library at Oxford contains a drawing in which two persons are shown, but they bowl to no mark.

In the town hall (1507) are the library and a small museum with two pictures by the 17th century artist Caesar van Everdingen, who with his more celebrated brother Allart van Everdingen was a native of the town.

The university possesses a very important library.

Among public buildings, the Stephenson memorial hall (1879), containing a free library, art and science class-rooms, a theatre and the rooms of the Chesterfield Institute, commemorates George Stephenson, the engineer, who resided at Tapton House, close to Chesterfield, in his later life; he died here in 1848, and was buried in Trinity church.

There are museums of mineralogy and geology, a lower school of mining, model room and scientific library.

The principal square is the Plaza de Bolivar, the conventional centre of the city, in which stands a bronze equestrian statue of Bolivar, and on which face the cathedral, archbishop's residence, Casa Amarilla, national library, general post office and other public offices.

Among the more prominent buildings are the court-house - the portion first erected being designed after the Parthenon - the Steele high school, St Mary's college, Notre Dame academy, the Memorial Building, the Arcade Building, Reibold Building, the Algonquin Hotel, the post office, the public library (containing about 75,000 volumes), the Young Men's Christian Association building and several churches.

Syracuse University, whose campus (of zoo acres) in the south-east part of the city commands a fine view of the lake, is a co-educational institution largely under Methodist Episcopal control, but not sectarian, which in1908-1909had 239 instructors and 3205 students (1336 in the college of liberal arts; 189 in the summer school; 62 in the library school; 933 in the college of fine arts; 147 in the college of medicine; 179 in the college of law; 401 in the college of applied science; and 78 in the teachers' college).

This is a magnificent palace, with gardens, a menagerie and a good library.