garage
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
entertainment
lifestyle
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from French garage (“keeping under cover, protection, shelter”), derivative of French garer (“to keep under cover, dock, shunt, guard, keep”), from Middle French garer, garrer, guerrer; partly from Old French garir, warir (from Old Frankish *warjan); and partly from Old French varer (“to fight, defend oneself, protect”), from Old Norse varask (“to defend oneself”), reflexive of vara (“to ware, watch out, defend”); both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *warjaną (“to defend, ward off”), *warōną (“to watch, protect”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to close, cover, protect, save, defend”).
Inflected forms:
form: garages
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: garages
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: garaging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: garaged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: garaged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A building (or section of a building) used to store a car or cars, tools and other miscellaneous items.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A little further on, to the right, was a large garage, where the charabancs stood, half in and half out of the yard.
gloss: A place where cars are serviced and repaired.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
countable
dated
uncountable
examples: The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.
gloss: A petrol filling station.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
countable
uncountable
gloss: A shed for housing an airship or aeroplane or a launchable missile; a hangar.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A side way or space in a canal to enable vessels to pass each other; a siding.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A type of guitar rock music, personified by amateur bands playing in the basement or garage; garage rock.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
countable
uncountable
gloss: A type of electronic dance music related to house music, with warped and time-stretched sounds; UK garage.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
gloss: To store in a garage.
pos: verb
examples: We garaged the convertible during the monsoon months.
Meanwhile the chauffeur who had driven them there—a subordinate member of the band—had garaged his car and was loitering about the drive in the expectation of further instructions.
I garaged the car and went to Aunt Dahlia's sanctum to ascertain whether she had cooled off at all since I had left her, for I was still anxious about that blood pressure of hers.
In large cities cars are nuisances unless you have enough money to afford to garage the beasts.
Derived words: 2-step garage
avant-garage
detached garage
future garage
garageable
garage apartment
garage band
garage certificate
garage door
garage door opener
garageful
garageless
garagelike
Garage Mahal
garageman
garage punk
garage-punk
garage queen
garage rock
garage-rock
garage sale
garage startup
garage suite
garageware
garagey
parking garage
petrol garage
speed garage
three guys in a garage
UK garage
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