# database
## English
### Alternative forms

* data base, data-base (dated)

### Etymology

From data +‎ base.

### Pronunciation

* (UK, Ireland, New Zealand, General Australian, US) IPA: /ˈdeɪtəˌbeɪs/
** Audio (Southern England):(file), Audio (General American):(file)
* (US) IPA: /ˈdætəˌbeɪs/
** Audio (General American):(file)
* (Ireland) IPA: /ˈdæːtəˌbeːs/
* (UK, New Zealand, General Australian, General South African) IPA: /ˈdɑːtəˌbeɪs/
* (Indic) IPA: /ˈɖeːʈaːˌbeːs/, /ˈɖaː-/, /ˈɖæ-/

### Noun

database (plural databases)
* (general) A collection of (usually) organized information in a regular structure, usually but not necessarily in a machine-readable format accessible by a computer.
    I have a database of all my contacts in my personal organizer.
* (computing) A set of tables and other objects (queries, reports, forms) in the form of a structured data set.
    The "books" database will have three tables, and the "customers" database will have two tables.
* (computing, loosely, metonymically) A software program (application) for storing, retrieving and manipulating such a structured data set.
    Which database do you use: MySQL or Oracle?
* (computing, loosely, metonymically) A combination of such data sets and the programs for using them.

#### Synonyms

* (computer software): DB

#### Synonyms

* (collection of organized information): data set, dataset, databank
* (computer software): database management system

#### Derived terms

* bibliographic database
* container database
* database administrator
* database analyst
* database engine
* database key
* database management system
* database model
* database publishing
* database transaction
* distributed database
* distributional–relational database
* hierarchical database
* metadatabase
* object database
* pluggable database
* relational database
* subdatabase
* superdatabase

#### Derived terms

* databaselike
* geodatabase
* hyperbase
* nondatabase
* tablebase
* termbase
* textbase

#### Descendants

* → Danish: database
* → Dutch: database
* → Hindi: डेटाबेस (ḍeṭābes)
* → Norwegian Bokmål: database
* → Norwegian Nynorsk: database

#### Translations

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### Verb

database (third-person singular simple present databases, present participle databasing, simple past and past participle databased)
* (transitive) To enter (data) into a database.
** 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide‎, page 5:The resulting citation collection was databased and coded for meaning, etymon, and date range (earliest and latest occurrence found).

## Danish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English database.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /daːtabaːsə/, [ˈd̥æːtˢaˌb̥æːsə], [ˌd̥æːtˢaˈb̥æːsə]

### Noun

database c (singular definite databasen, plural indefinite databaser)
* database [from 1970]

#### Further reading

* database on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{da}$

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from English database.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdaː.taːˌbeːs/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: da‧ta‧base

### Noun

database f (plural databases, diminutive databaseje n)
* database

#### Synonyms

* databank

## French
### Noun

database f (plural databases)
* (dated) database
    Synonym: base de données

## Interlingua
### Noun

database (plural databases)
* database

## Italian
### Noun

database m (invariable)
* database

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From data +‎ base.

### Noun

database m (definite singular databasen, indefinite plural databaser, definite plural databasene)
* (computing) a database

### References

* “database” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From data +‎ base.

### Noun

database m (definite singular databasen, indefinite plural databasar, definite plural databasane)
* (computing) a database

### References

* “database” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.