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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
archive
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
local
▪ The research involves the use of primary source materials in national and local archives.
▪ Was it there that he also began to consult local archives?
▪ Any history teacher moving into a new area should make contact with their local archives.
national
▪ The research involves the use of primary source materials in national and local archives.
▪ Research materials will include national archive sources, local police record, and oral information.
▪ In some cases the scheduling of records in departments under the guidance of the national archives is mandatory.
■ NOUN
film
▪ Old photographs, and some archive film footage or earlier radio broadcasts would also be included, depending on the period being studied.
▪ This can be especially useful with archive film.
▪ My personal favourites were the archive films.
▪ Also television documentaries are making increasing use of archive film from the stores of national and regional film archives.
▪ Much early archive film is silent film.
material
▪ The first applications therefore were with archive material, which was itself highly structured and which was available in quantity.
▪ Graham gave us a judicious mixture of archive material of these railway systems and some modern photographs of survivals and restorations.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ the Pacific Film Archive
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Apart from the odd newspaper archive, almost always free.
▪ Click on it, and CleanSweep unpacks the archive, so you can use the program again.
▪ Reprinting items retrieved from the archives are for personal use only.
▪ The archive still left a good deal to be desired.
▪ Then the picture that will go into the Windsor archives was taken - while Charles disappeared from the historic scene, nattering.
▪ There would be a massive archive somewhere if we had ever lived under the Stasi or the Gestapo.
▪ We found that some last only 10 to 30 years and that's not enough for archives of historical material.
II.verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ NOAA will analyze and archive data from satellites.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At first the wealth of scratchy film archiving the revolution's birth was riveting.
▪ Major record companies archive their own stock only.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Archive

Archive \Ar"chive\, n.; pl. Archives. [F. archives, pl., L. archivum, archium, fr. Gr. ? government house, ? ? archives, fr. ? the first place, government. See Archi-, pref.]

  1. pl. The place in which public records or historic documents are kept.

    Our words . . . . become records in God's court, and are laid up in his archives as witnesses.
    --Gov. of Tongue.

  2. pl. Public records or documents preserved as evidence of facts; as, the archives of a country or family.

    Some rotten archive, rummaged out of some seldom explored press.
    --Lamb.

    Syn: Registers; records; chronicles.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
archive

1819 (implied in archived), from archives. Related: Archiving.

Wiktionary
archive

n. 1 A place for store 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). vb. To put into an archive.

WordNet
archive

n. a depository containing historical records and documents [syn: archives]

archive

v. put into an archive [syn: file away]

Wikipedia
Archive (disambiguation)

Archive or The Archive or Archives may refer to:

Archive (band)

Archive are a musical group based in London, England, whose music spans electronic, trip hop, avant-garde, post-rock and progressive rock. Over their twenty-year history, the band has released ten studio albums and enjoyed established success throughout Europe, while remaining little-known in their native Britain.

Archive (Magnum album)

Archive is compilation album by the British melodic rock band Magnum. It is a collection of previously unreleased demo and outtake material recorded from 1976 to 1983, and was released in 1993 by Jet Records.

Most of the material released here was used as bonus tracks for Magnum's expanded and remastered series on Sanctuary Records.

Archive (The Specials album)

Archive is a compilation album by The Specials, released in 2001 (see 2001 in music). It consists of old Specials songs and ones by the new line-up, mostly covers.

Archive (non-profit publishing organisation)

Archive is a publishing and research platform based in Berlin.

It consists of a publishing house, an exhibition space and a magazine. Its activities are focused on the publishing field and experimentation with editorial formats and concepts. Archive investigates art practices in the context of a larger cultural and social sphere. Its concern is to explore distribution possibilities and to provide a critical discussion about the functions of an exhibition. Archive translates, organizes, and circulates critically invested materials. It was founded in 2009 by Chiara Figone.

Archive (magazine)

Archive is a membership magazine for users of the Acorn Archimedes personal computer and related hardware. It is the oldest and longest-running magazine.

Archive

An archive is an accumulation of historical records or the physical place they are located. Archives contain primary source documents that have accumulated over the course of an individual or organization's lifetime, and are kept to show the function of that person or organization. Professional archivists and historians generally understand archives to be records that have been naturally and necessarily generated as a product of regular legal, commercial, administrative, or social activities. They have been metaphorically defined as "the secretions of an organism", and are distinguished from documents that have been consciously written or created to communicate a particular message to posterity.

In general, archives consist of records that have been selected for permanent or long-term preservation on grounds of their enduring cultural, historical, or evidentiary value. Archival records are normally unpublished and almost always unique, unlike books or magazines for which many identical copies exist. This means that archives are quite distinct from libraries with regard to their functions and organization, although archival collections can often be found within library buildings.

A person who works in archives is called an archivist. The study and practice of organizing, preserving, and providing access to information and materials in archives is called archival science. The physical place of storage can be referred to as an archive (more usual in the UK), an archives (more usual in the USA), or a repository.

When referring to historical records or the places they are kept, the plural form archives is chiefly used. The computing use of the term 'archive' should not be confused with the record-keeping meaning of the term.

Usage examples of "archive".

This archive is mostly odds and ends collected later by the Turks as they were gradually beaten back from the edges of their empire.

How had I not noticed, in the archive, that the region represented on those maps had exactly the brooding, spread-winged shape of my dragon, as if he cast his shadow over it from above?

Of course: these would be his own versions of the maps he had seen in the archive in Istanbul, copied from memory after his adventures there.

Had Rossi actually looked through them himself, or had he merely had time to list the possibilities in that archive before being scared away from it?

Helen wanted to hunt down the archive at once, but I insisted on rest and a meal.

Hagia Sophia from a window there, that the archive had more than one floor, and that it had a door communicating directly with the street on the first floor.

I had tried cautiously to find information on such an archive at the university library at home just before our departure, but without success.

The letters said that the archive was attached to a small mosque from the seventeenth century.

Could the undead have been guarding not only an archive but also a grave?

I became enamored of this archive, I asked the librarian for all possible information about it.

He told me that he was sorry but he did not know anything about the archive to which I referred and could not help me.

I still wish I knew why Professor Rossi was compelled to write to me that he did not know about our archive here, which seems a lie, does it not?

It seems to me too much of a coincidence that you appeared when we had just arrived in Istanbul, looking for the archive you have been so much interested in all these years.

In any case, when I saw your interest in my archive, I was surprised and moved, and now that I hear your more-than-remarkable story, I feel that somehow I am to be your assistance here in Istanbul.

He would bring new information, if he could, and we would visit the archive again to see if there were any developments there.