library
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
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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.
Inflected forms:
form: libraries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: She went to exchange her books at her local library.
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[.]
When all else fails, give up and go to the library.
gloss: Any institution that lends out its goods for use by the public or a community.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: You can check out a bandsaw from the tool library.
gloss: A collection of books or other forms of stored information.
pos: noun
examples: A small library of books has been written on the subject.
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.
gloss: A collection of information or reference materials not in book form.
pos: noun
examples: She has the most impressive record library I've ever seen.
At his office in Copenhagen's Amager neighborhood, Thulstrup maintains a vast materials library, arranging samples and mock-ups on tables as tactile mood boards.
gloss: A room dedicated to storing books.
pos: noun
gloss: A collection of software routines that provide functionality to be incorporated into or used by a computer program.
pos: noun
examples: A static library is much like any other library in that it contains a bunch of code for your application to use.
gloss: A collection of DNA material from a single organism or relative to a single disease.
pos: noun
gloss: The deck or draw pile.
pos: noun
examples: 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).
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!
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.
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.
At this phase, most of TCGs only allow players drawing card(s) from a pack which is also called library or deck.
Derived words: 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
pirate library
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
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: գրադարան
roman: gradaran
lang: Bulgarian
word: архив
roman: arhiv
lang: Czech
word: fonotéka
lang: Dutch
word: archief
lang: Esperanto
word: arkivo
lang: Esperanto
word: arĥivo
lang: Finnish
word: äänilevystö
lang: Finnish
word: levystö
lang: German
word: Archiv
lang: Greek
word: δισκοθήκη
roman: diskothíki
lang: Hebrew
word: ספרייה \ סִפְרִיָּה
roman: sifriyá
lang: Italian
word: archivio
lang: Italian
word: banca dati
lang: Kazakh
word: дерекхана
roman: derekxana
lang: Malay
word: koleksi
lang: Portuguese
word: arquivo
lang: Scots
word: leebrary
lang: Swahili
word: maktaba
lang: Swedish
word: arkiv
lang: Ukrainian
word: бібліоте́ка
roman: bibliotéka
lang: Bulgarian
word: библиотека
roman: biblioteka
lang: Catalan
word: biblioteca
lang: Catalan
word: programoteca
lang: Catalan
word: llibreria
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 文庫 /文库
roman: wénkù
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 庫 /库
roman: kù
lang: Czech
word: knihovna
lang: Danish
word: bibliotek
lang: Faroese
word: bókasavn
lang: Finnish
word: ohjelmakirjasto
lang: French
word: bibliothèque
lang: French
word: librairie
lang: German
word: Bibliothek
lang: German
word: Programmbibliothek
lang: Greek
word: βιβλιοθήκη
roman: vivliothíki
lang: Hebrew
word: ספרייה \ סִפְרִיָּה
roman: sifriyá
lang: Hungarian
word: programkönyvtár
lang: Icelandic
word: forritasafn
lang: Indonesian
word: pustaka
lang: Irish
word: leabharlann
lang: Italian
word: libreria
lang: Japanese
word: ライブラリー
roman: raiburarī
lang: Korean
word: 라이브러리
roman: raibeureori
lang: Macedonian
word: библио́тека
roman: biblióteka
lang: Malay
word: siri
lang: Pa'o Karen
word: ထွားလိတ်လမ်း
lang: Polish
word: biblioteka
lang: Portuguese
word: biblioteca
lang: Russian
word: библиоте́ка
roman: bibliotéka
lang: Scots
word: leebrary
lang: Spanish
word: biblioteca
lang: Swahili
word: maktaba
lang: Swedish
word: bibliotek
lang: Ukrainian
word: бібліоте́ка
roman: bibliotéka
lang: Vietnamese
word: thư viện