library
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪ.bɹi/
ipa: /ˈlaɪ.bɹə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈlaɪˌbɹɛɹ.i/
ipa: /ˈlaɪ.bɹəɹ.i/
ipa: /ˈlaɪˌbɛɹ.i/
ipa: /ˈlaɪ.bəɹi/
rhymes: -aɪbɹi
rhymes: -aɪbɹəɹi
rhymes: -aɪbɛɹi
other: /ˈlaɪ.bɹi/
Forms: form: libraries
Etymology: From Middle English librarie, from Anglo-Norman librarie, from Old French librairie, from Latin librarium (“bookcase, chest for books”), from librarius (“concerning books”), from liber (“the inner bark of trees; paper, parchment, book”), probably derived from a Proto-Indo-European base *leub(ʰ)- (“to strip, to peel”). Displaced native Middle English bochous, bokhus (literally “book house”), from Old English bōchūs (compare bookhouse).
Romance cognates often mean “bookshop” instead: French librairie, Italian libreria, Spanish librería, Romanian librărie and Portuguese livraria. This is a relatively recent innovation (16th century in French), which ended up displacing the earlier sense.
Senses: examples: text: She went to exchange her books at her local library.
text: Libraries have been burnt and whole religious movements wiped out because their belief and myths have been considered to be of dubious origin by the upholders of orthodoxy[.]
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 11:
text: When all else fails, give up and go to the library.
ref: 2012, Stephen King, 11/22/63, page 133:
synonyms: word: bookhouse
coordinate_terms: bookshop
bookstore
glosses: An institution which holds books and/or other forms of media for use by the public or qualified people often lending them out, as well as providing various other services for its users.
glosses: Any institution that lends out its goods for use by the public or a community.
examples: text: A small library of books has been written on the subject.
ref: 1896, Alfred Newton, A Dictionary of Birds, page 71:
text: My library is not a single beast but a composite of many others, a fantastic animal made up of the several libraries built and then abandoned, over and over again, throughout my life. I can’t remember a time in which I didn’t have a library of some sort. The present one is a sort of multilayered autobiography, each book holding the moment in which I opened it for the first time.
ref: 2008 May 15, Alberto Manguel, “A 30,000-Volume Window on the World”, in New York Times:
glosses: A collection of books or other forms of stored information.
glosses: An equivalent collection of analogous information in a non-printed form, e.g. record library.
glosses: A room dedicated to storing books.
examples: text: A static library is much like any other library in that it contains a bunch of code for your application to use.
ref: 2014, John Paul Mueller, Jeff Cogswell, C++ All-in-One For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 307:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
coordinate_terms: framework
glosses: A collection of software routines that provide functionality to be incorporated into or used by a computer program.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A collection of DNA material from a single organism or relative to a single disease.
examples: text: At the conclusion of every duel, each player must show the remaining cards in his or her hand to the opponent to verify that no Restricted List duplicate cards appear there (e.g., to prove that a second Time Walk wasn't drawn from his library).
ref: 1994, The Magic, the Gathering: Pocket Players' Guide, →ISBN, page 167:
text: But why did very good players shy away from cards that are so obviously good from our perspectives? One very real possibility is that library manipulation/increased selection and redundancy tech had not yet been established - after all, many players were amazed at Lestree's use of the Sylvan Library to draw extra cards!
ref: 2006, Michael J. Flores, Deckade: 10 Years of Decks, Thoughts, and Theory!, →ISBN, page 228:
text: To win a game of Magic, you must achieve one of two chief goals: either be the first to reduce your opponent's life total from 20 to 0, or force him or her to attempt to draw a card from his or her library when there are no cards left in it.
ref: 2006, John Kaufeld, Jeremy Smith, Trading Card Games For Dummies, →ISBN, page 50:
text: The deck becomes the draw pile, also called the library, from which each player repeatedly draws cards for his or her own hand, cards that are gradually included into the game.
ref: 2010, Shirley R. Steinberg, Michael Kehler, Lindsay Cornish, Boy Culture: An Encyclopedia, →ISBN, page 418:
text: At this phase, most of TCGs only allow players drawing card(s) from a pack which is also called library or deck.
ref: 2010, Zhigeng Pan, Maiga Chang, Adrian David Cheok, Transactions on Edutainment III, →ISBN, page 119:
topics: card-games
games
qualifier: Magic: The Gathering
glosses: The deck or draw pile.
Synonyms: word: bibliotheca
word: bibliotheke
Derived terms: antilibrary
Borgesian library
Carnegie library
circulating library
cyberlibrary
cybrary
diaper library
digital library
dynamic-link library
ebrary
e-library
film library
free library
interlibrary
lending library
librametry
librarial
librarian
librariana
librarious
library and information science
library assistant
library card
library catalog
library catalogue
libraryful
library hand
librarying
libraryless
librarylike
library paste
library school
library science
library sort
library voice
microlibrary
mobile library
multilibrary
nappy library
nonlibrary
public library
record library
reference library
school library
seed library
shadow library
sidewalk library
street library
sublibrary
tape library
videolibrary
why buy a book when you can join a library
why buy a book when you can join the library