Used in a Sentence

archive

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for archive.

Editorial note

OT: Are there official or well-known mirrors of all of archive.org, should the original maintainer ever go down?

Examples10
Definitions4
Parts of speech2

Quick take

The material so kept, considered as a whole (compare archives).

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of archive gathered in one view.

noun

The material so kept, considered as a whole (compare archives).

verb

(transitive) To place (something) into an archive.

noun

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

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for archive.

noun

The material so kept, considered as a whole (compare archives).

verb

(transitive) To place (something) into an archive.

noun

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

noun

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.

Example sentences

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OT: Are there official or well-known mirrors of all of archive.org, should the original maintainer ever go down?

2

Granted, but you could contact archive.org and ask how $8k of AWK credit could be donated and used productively.

3

Map updates are free as well, simply download a 6 GB archive and decompress it to an SD card.

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The Internet Archive is indeed a 501(c)3, and this is a great idea.

5

If I get this correctly, this would help make a backup of archive.org.

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The Internet Archive is a different entity than ArchiveTeam.

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Making the archive publicly accessible for consumption is.

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Hundreds of his shows from the 50s through to the 70s are archived at archive.org—so many in fact that I was able to locate the very first show I ever listened to as a kid decades ago.

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I bemoan the disaster that is happening with the BBC archive of radio and TV (about 1,000,000 hours of content!) - they didn't manage to place it online completely, thus, it is not shared, commented upon, put in collections, and integrated into this living fabric that is the social media.

Proper noun examples

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[1] Confirmed via Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use archive in a sentence?

OT: Are there official or well-known mirrors of all of archive.org, should the original maintainer ever go down?

What does archive mean?

The material so kept, considered as a whole (compare archives).

What part of speech is archive?

archive is commonly used as noun, verb.