Storage

Storage means the act of keeping things and the place where you keep them.

That may be:

 Furniture designed to hold small objects:
 Bookcase, Cabinet (furniture), Chest (furniture), Cupboard, Desk, Sideboard (hutch), Refrigerator, etc.

 Small, mobile containers designed to hold food or other goods:
 boxes, bottles, and cans
 Food storage, containers such as Tupperware and Rubbermaid brands
 Container (cargo), a shipping container, storage for cargo transport
 Magazine (artillery), an item or place within which ammunition is stored

 Larger containers typically designed to store special kinds of objects or substances:
 Reservoir (water), an artificial lake
 Storage tank
 Dry cask storage, storing high-level radioactive waste

 Special rooms, or parts of buildings, designed for storage:
 Storage room, Closet, Cellar, Attic

 Special buildings, or collections of buildings, designed to hold large objects, or a great many objects of a particular type:
 Shed, Depot, Garage (house)
 Warehouse, a commercial building for storage of goods
 Self storage, public storage facility
 Ammunition dump, a military storage facility for live ammunition and explosives

 Devices designed to store and release electrical charge or energy:
 Capacitor, stores electric charge
 battery, a store of electricity

 Devices designed for information storage and retrieval:
 storage medium
 Computer storage, Hard drive, Computer memory
 See also Store and forward, relaying information through one or more intermediate stations which temporarily store the information

 Collections of stored information:
 Archive, or archives – a collection of records
 Books store the wisdom of the ages
 Memory stores the record of experience

Related pages
Store
Hoarding
Storativity – a measure of storage