Word Finder - storage

definition

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

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

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

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

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

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The price charged for storing goods.

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To put into storage; to store.

She'd been in the large storage room once while playing hide and seek long ago.

It is obliged also to form entrepots for the storage of the crops at reasonable distances from each other, and, on certain conditions, to grant advances to cultivators to aid them in raising the leaf.

I'll check further on that storage facility ownership, too.

Do you own that storage facility where they were kept?

She took it, and he Transported them to the small storage room.

They were covered with dust in the storage rooms.

They left everything in storage.

The construction of large storage reservoirs was recommended, and this work was put in hand jointly by the New River, West Middlesex and Grand Junction companies at Staines on the Thames.

They started the storage business as an investment.

He strapped on his weapons and strode into the storage area, looking with admiration at the boxes of medical supplies.

From the reverberatory furnace or the kettle the refined lead is siphoned off into a storage (market) kettle after it has cooled somewhat, and from this it is siphoned off into moulds placed in a semicircle on the floor.

What will change is the amount of data that will be recorded, the speed of the processors, and the cost of storage and computation.

He glanced back at Fred, who had again closed his eyes and was prattling on about the best ways to "case" the storage facility.

Immortals and death-dealers battled the remaining demons at the warehouse-sized storage facility where the demons had been gathering the human dead.

One of the three owners of the storage building is named Fitzgerald!

To harvest their crops, they need equipment and suitable storage facilities.

Katie braced herself for a storage room full of military uniforms and was surprised to see what looked much like a women's department section.

In addition to the storage buildings, he owns an insurance agency, a bank and a bunch of commercial real estate.

I'll ask Fred to try and run down who owns that storage place.

There was when the wreck was hauled into storage.

I knew where it was located when it was in storage, but they all looked the same outside at the auction.

Everything this side of the Mississippi is working on solar energy, but not all the facilities are equipped with energy storage, and because it's fall, our energy collection is limited.

The reactor area, the storage and logistical areas, and the hazardous waste areas appeared untouched.

Darian opened the door and slid into the storage room.

In the higher forms a storage and a mechanically-strengthening system may also be developed, and in some aerial Fungi an external protective tissue.

In the former case the formation of phelloderm is trivial in amount; in the latter, considerable, since this tissue has to replace the cast-off cortex, as a metabolic and particularly a storage tissue.

In Canada, means of transport similar to those already described are employed, but the reservoirs for storage often consist of excavations in the soft Erie clay of the oil district, the sides of which are supported by planks.

In other countries the flash-point standards differ considerably, as do the storage regulations.

These prairies are traversed by ridges, which facilitate irrigation, and are underlaid by an impervious subsoil, which facilitates both effective storage and drainage.

The importance of storage reservoirs is manifest under such conditions of flow, especially bearing in mind the growth of population in the London district and of its increasing needs.

In the Amazon valley fish is a principal article of food, and large quantities of pirarucu (Sudis gigas) are caught during the season of low water and prepared for storage or market by drying in the sun.

The climatic conditions are not so favourable as in Argentina, but these are counterbalanced to some extent by the great river system of the Orinoco, whose large navigable tributaries cross the plains from end to end, and whose smaller streams from the surrounding highlands provide superior opportunities for water storage and irrigation.

Electric locomotives usually work on the trolley system, though a few storage battery locomotives have been successfully employed.

When the mineral is transported by rail or water to concentration or metallurgical works for treatment, or to near or distant markets for sale, provision must be made for the economical loading of railway wagons or vessels, and for the temporary storage of the mineral product.

Dean could picture him and the old man breaking into the storage building in the dead of night.

And while he isn't sure exactly where it was staged, there's a possibility he might have been in the same theatrical company that played Ouray, went broke and left their gear in storage.

There was a biography on him from some local storage shed association that made him some kind of muck a muck a few years back.

He's back in Virginia, playing with his storage garages and probably chasing every skirt he hasn't already lifted.

True to his word, he'd removed little from the storage facility.

Dan asked quietly, joining him in the storage room.

The radiation treatments we found in the feds' storage facility worked.

The one-room shack was neat, with pallets on one side, a fire at its center, a small area to prepare food and crates lining one wall that acted both as storage and seating.

Cisterns were also used for the storage of rain water, and aqueducts, of which the remains still exist, were constructed for the conveyance of water from a distance.

All of them couple the transmitting antenna directly or inductively to a capacity-inductive circuit serving as a storage of energy, and all of them create thereby electric waves of the same type moving over the earth's surface with the magnetic force of the wave parallel to it.

The guard-cells contain chlorophyll, which is absent from typical epidermal cells, the latter acting as a tissue for water storage.

The value of the fish has much increased owing to the introduction of cold storage; as a result of the employment of this method of packing, fish is now exported in a fresh state from the Black Sea to all parts of S.W.

It extended the meaning of the term " railroad " to include switches, spurs and terminal facilities, and the term " transportation " to include private cars, and all collateral services, such as refrigeration, elevation and storage.

Under the republic, and until modern times, the water supply of Venice was furnished by the storage of rain-water supplemented by water brought from the Brenta in boats.

The metropolitan system as planned in 1905 for the near future contemplated storage for 80,000,000,000 gallons, it is only part of a system planned for the service of the metropolitan area.

Natural gas is largely used in the United States, and for some time, owing to defective methods of storage, delivery and consumption, great waste occurred.