What is "garage"

Garage \Ga`rage"\ (g[.a]`r[aum]zh" or g[.a]`r[aum]j" or (Brit.) g[.a]r"[asl]j), n. [F.]

1. an enclosed structure for housing or parking motor vehicles, especially automobiles.

2. (A["e]ronautics) A shed for housing an airship or flying machine; a hangar.

3. A side way or space in a canal to enable vessels to pass each other; a siding.

4. a commercial establishment that repairs or services automobiles.

1906, from garage (n.). Related: Garaged; garaging.

1902, from French garage "shelter for a vehicle," a specific use of a word meaning generally "place for storing something," from verb garer "to shelter," also "to dock ships," from Old French garir "take care of, protect; save, spare, rescue," from Frankish *waron "to guard" or some other Germanic source (compare Old High German waron "take care"), from Proto-Germanic *war-, from PIE root *wer- (5) "to cover" (see warrant (n.)).\n\nInfluenced no doubt by the success of the recent Club run, and by the fact that more than 100 of its members are automobile owners, the N.Y.A.C. has decided to build a "garage," the French term for an automobile stable, at Travers Island, that will be of novel design, entirely different from any station in the country.

[New York Athletic Club Journal, May 1902]

1906, from garage (n.). Related: Garaged.

n. A building (or section of a building) used to store a car or cars, tool and other miscellaneous items. vb. To store in a garage.

v. keep or store in a garage; "we don't garage our car"

1. n. an outbuilding (or part of a building) for housing automobiles

2. a repair shop where cars and trucks are serviced and repaired [syn: service department]

Garage may refer to:

A residential garage ( or ) is a walled, roofed structure for storing a vehicle or vehicles that is part of or attached to a home, or which is an associated outbuilding or shed. Residential garages typically have space for one or two cars, although three-car garages are used. When a garage is attached to a house, the garage typically has an entry door into the house. Garages normally have a wide door which can be raised to permit the entry and exit of a vehicle, and then closed to secure the vehicle. A garage protects a vehicle from precipitation, and, if it is equipped with a locking garage door, it also protects the vehicle(s) from theft and vandalism.

Some garages have an electrical mechanism to automatically open or close the garage door when the homeowner presses a button on a small remote control. Some garages have enough space, even with cars inside, for the storage of items such as bicycles or a lawnmower; in some cases, there may even be enough space for a workshop or a man cave. Garages that are attached to a house may be built with the same external materials and roofing as the house. Garages that are not connected to the home may use a different style of construction from the house. In some places, the term is used synonymously with " carport", though that term normally describes a structure that, while roofed, is not completely enclosed. A carport protects the vehicle to some degree from inclement weather, but it does not protect the vehicle from theft or vandalism.

The word garage, introduced to English in 1902, originates from the French word garer, meaning shelter. By 1908 the architect Charles Harrison Townsend was commenting in The Builder magazine that; “for the home of the car, we very largely use the French word ‘garage’, alternatively with what I think the more desirable English equivalent of ‘motor house’.

Garage is Cross Canadian Ragweed's seventh album. A limited release special edition included a bonus DVD containing six videos, one chronicling the band's 10th anniversary. The album includes the singles "Fightin' For" and "This Time Around", both of which charted on Hot Country Songs.

Garage is a clothing store, primarily targeting the teenage girl demographic. Founded in 1975 as a subsidiary of Groupe Dynamite, Garage currently has locations in Canada, the United States, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar.

Garage is a 2007 Irish film directed by Lenny Abrahamson and written by Mark O'Halloran, the same team behind Adam & Paul. It stars Pat Shortt, Anne-Marie Duff and Conor J. Ryan. The film tells the story of a lonely petrol station attendant and how he slowly begins to come out of his shell.

Garage won the CICAE Art and Essai Cinema Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and the Best Film prize at the 25th Torino Film Festival.

Garage (formerly Garáž) is a rock band from the Czech Republic. The band was founded in Prague in 1979 by Ivo Pospíšil from DG 307. In 1980s there he played on guitar Milan Hlavsa from The Plastic People of the Universe. After the Velvet Revolution in 1989 Garage concerts in abroad (New York, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium and France). At that time the band played Joe Karafiát, one of the most acclaimed solo guitarists in Prague, who lived in Canada before the revolution. In 1994 was released album Garage, produced by Ivan Kral (former member of Patti Smith Group).

Garage is an alcopop produced by the Finnish brewery Sinebrychoff. It is currently produced and marketed in two flavours, called "Hard Lemonade" and "Hard Ice Tea". Both flavours have an alcohol content of 4.6%. The "Hard Lemonade" flavour has its origins in the United States. Garage is currently sold at least in the United States, Russia, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Hungary, Canada and Finland. Garage has had good progress in the global market, as an example in 2013 its sales in Finland grew by 30%.

Garage was a music fanzine based in Dunedin, New Zealand, which was created and edited by journalist Richard Langston. Six issues were published during the 1980s. The first issue was only 18 photocopied pages and produced in a very small edition, but the final issue was printed in a run of more than a thousand.

Langston had returned to Dunedin in 1985 after living and working in London, and he created Garage out of his enthusiasm for the New Zealand music scene at the time. Garage became a reference especially for the nascent Flying Nun scene, with coverage of such acts as (but not limited to) The Chills, The Clean, The Verlaines, Sneaky Feelings, Look Blue Go Purple, The Rip, The Puddle, Tall Dwarfs, The Orange, Doublehappys, Scorched Earth Policy, Builders, Victor Dimisich Band, Chris Knox, Straitjacket Fits, Fetus Productions, and The Bats.

Coverage was also given to international acts such as The Jesus and Mary Chain, Cramps, Roky Erickson, Lou Reed, and The Go-Betweens.

Richard Langston is now a television journalist with New Zealand's TV3.

Garage is a Bar initiated 1990 in Bergen, with a branch established 2004 in Oslo. Both of the bars also have their own concert Departments. Bergen branch of Garage was created by Frode Svanevik together with veterans at the rock scene of Bergen, and quickly became one of the city's most popular venues, especially among students. Because of municipal rules on opening hours the bar was divided into two separate departments with different opening hours for several years. Garage is one of the most renowned rock clubs in Northern Europe.

As one of the most popular night clubs in Bergen, Garage is a vibrant melting pot and meeting place for music interested people. The Oslo Department premises that previously belonged rock club "So What". This is owned and operated by Garage, by Henning Christensen who took over as manager in 2001, in collaboration with the Oslo club "Café Mono. This department, in addition to a bar and concert venue, also outdoor seating. Both departments are adorned with statuettes that has been provided by various Spellemannpris Winners from their respective cities.