From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englisharchivear‧chive1 /ˈɑːkaɪv $ ˈɑːr-/ ●○○ noun [countable] 1 TTBRECORDa place where a large number of historical records are stored, or the records that are stored an archive of the writer’s unpublished work2 technical copies of a computer’s files that are stored on a disk or in the computer’s memory in a way that uses less space than usual, so that the computer can keep them for a long time —archive adjective interesting archive material —archival /ɑːˈkaɪvəl $ ɑːr-/ adjective archival footage of the president’s visit in 1969
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archive• the Pacific Film Archive• We found that some last only 10 to 30 years and that's not enough for archives of historical material.• There would be a massive archive somewhere if we had ever lived under the Stasi or the Gestapo.• Apart from the odd newspaper archive, almost always free.• Reprinting items retrieved from the archives are for personal use only.• Click on it, and CleanSweep unpacks the archive, so you can use the program again.• 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.archivearchive2 verb [transitive] 1 to put documents, books, information etc in an archive2 to save a computer file in a way that uses less space than usual, because you do not use that file often but may need it in the future —archiving noun [uncountable] electronic archiving systems→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpus
archive• NOAA will analyze and archive data from satellites.• At first the wealth of scratchy film archiving the revolution's birth was riveting.• Major record companies archive their own stock only.From Longman Business Dictionaryarchivear‧chive1 /ˈɑːkaɪvˈɑːr-/ verb [transitive] COMPUTING to make a permanent copy of information held in a computer or to store the information so that it cannot be changed or lostOnce a month the files will be archived. —archiving noun [uncountable]the scanning and archiving of paper documents onto optical diskselectronic archiving systems→ See Verb tablearchivearchive2 noun [countable] COMPUTING the part of a computer or computer system where information is stored in such a way that it cannot be changed or lostYou could rebuild your hard disk’s contents from this archive.Origin archive1 (1600-1700) French Latin archivum, from Greek archeion “government building” (in plural, “official documents”), from arche “rule, government” 