Storage
noun
A place or space where things can be put away when they are not being used.
I keep my clothes in the storage closet.
Often appears as...
- storage room
- storage space
noun
The action or process of preserving someone's belongings.
The company offers secure storage for your personal items.
Often appears as...
- storage facility
- safe storage
noun
The technology relating to saving and keeping digital data.
You will need additional storage if you want to download more apps.
Often appears as...
- cloud storage
- data storage
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Technical
noun
A place or space where things can be put away when they are not being used.
I keep my clothes in the storage closet.
Often appears as...
- storage room
- storage space
noun
The action or process of preserving someone's belongings.
The company offers secure storage for your personal items.
Often appears as...
- storage facility
- safe storage
noun
The technology relating to saving and keeping digital data.
You will need additional storage if you want to download more apps.
Often appears as...
- cloud storage
- data storage
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Tangible Objects
Refers to physical items that you can touch and move into a specific area.
We bought several boxes for storage of our books.
Pro Tip 2/3Clutter Reduction
Used when tidying up or organizing a space to make it neat and accessible.
Use the attic for storage to keep your living room uncluttered.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Active Use
Items in storage are not immediately needed but may be used later.
We put our winter gear into storage during the summer.
Pro Tip 1/3Tangible Objects
Refers to physical items that you can touch and move into a specific area.
We bought several boxes for storage of our books.
Pro Tip 2/3Clutter Reduction
Used when tidying up or organizing a space to make it neat and accessible.
Use the attic for storage to keep your living room uncluttered.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Active Use
Items in storage are not immediately needed but may be used later.
We put our winter gear into storage during the summer.
Pro Tip 1/3Tangible Objects
Refers to physical items that you can touch and move into a specific area.
We bought several boxes for storage of our books.
Pro Tip 2/3Clutter Reduction
Used when tidying up or organizing a space to make it neat and accessible.
Use the attic for storage to keep your living room uncluttered.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Active Use
Items in storage are not immediately needed but may be used later.
We put our winter gear into storage during the summer.
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We Are What We Eat:...
that they have hunted during the migration when whales come by their village. And for me it's telling. Finally I got something. We return back, he's going to give a good portion to the dogs because the dogs help the Inuits hunting and they always split the result of the hunt. And, you know, stores most of it in the storage
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Why modern renewable...
bottom line bulk electricity storage and fossil fuel backup are the costliest ways to make the grid more flexible so we would use them last not first a breakthrough in cheap bulk storage would be helpful but not vital we needn't wait for it and the market isn't waiting only the myth holds us back thank you
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How do vitamins work? -...
because the body is generally well stocked. Once we figured the logistics of transport and storage, the vitamins are left to do the work they came here to do in the first place. Some, like many of the B Complex vitamins, make up coenzymes, whose job it is to help enzymes release the energy from food.
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Why do honeybees love...
the shape that gave them the most storage space. They agreed on an ideal size and returned to work. The space efficient comb that is a bee's trademark today, is probably the result of this trial and error, but over long periods of evolutionary history. However, it paid off. Peek into any hive --
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What happens when you...
it travels to the hippocampus, where special proteins work to strengthen the cortical synaptic connections. If the experience was strong enough, or we recall it periodically in the first few days, the hippocampus then transfers the memory back to the cortex for permanent storage.
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How do nuclear power...
until it has all safely decayed. Many countries propose deep time storage in tunnels drilled far underground, but none have been built, and there's great uncertainty about their long-term security. How can a nation that has existed for only a few hundred years
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How computer memory...
Solid-state drives also have an additional weakness. Repeatedly writing to floating gate transistors corrodes them, eventually rendering them useless. With data on most current storage media having less than a ten-year life expectancy,
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How do hard drives work?...
This amazing advance in storage capacity wasn't just a matter of making everything smaller, but involved multiple innovations. A technique called the thin film lithography process allowed engineers to shrink the reader and writer.
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David Attenborough Eats...
these golden globes hanging from the roof are their storage pots full of honey each one is alive an ant with an abdomen expanded to the size of a grape the small dark flecks are the hard plates which protect the body of a
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Sleep is your superpower...
that acts like a file-transfer mechanism at night, shifting memories from a short-term vulnerable reservoir to a more permanent long-term storage site within the brain, and therefore protecting them, making them safe.
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We Are What We Eat:...
that they have hunted during the migration when whales come by their village. And for me it's telling. Finally I got something. We return back, he's going to give a good portion to the dogs because the dogs help the Inuits hunting and they always split the result of the hunt. And, you know, stores most of it in the storage
Video examples
Why modern renewable...
bottom line bulk electricity storage and fossil fuel backup are the costliest ways to make the grid more flexible so we would use them last not first a breakthrough in cheap bulk storage would be helpful but not vital we needn't wait for it and the market isn't waiting only the myth holds us back thank you
Video examples
How do vitamins work? -...
because the body is generally well stocked. Once we figured the logistics of transport and storage, the vitamins are left to do the work they came here to do in the first place. Some, like many of the B Complex vitamins, make up coenzymes, whose job it is to help enzymes release the energy from food.
Video examples
Why do honeybees love...
the shape that gave them the most storage space. They agreed on an ideal size and returned to work. The space efficient comb that is a bee's trademark today, is probably the result of this trial and error, but over long periods of evolutionary history. However, it paid off. Peek into any hive --
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What happens when you...
it travels to the hippocampus, where special proteins work to strengthen the cortical synaptic connections. If the experience was strong enough, or we recall it periodically in the first few days, the hippocampus then transfers the memory back to the cortex for permanent storage.
Video examples
How do nuclear power...
until it has all safely decayed. Many countries propose deep time storage in tunnels drilled far underground, but none have been built, and there's great uncertainty about their long-term security. How can a nation that has existed for only a few hundred years
Video examples
How computer memory...
Solid-state drives also have an additional weakness. Repeatedly writing to floating gate transistors corrodes them, eventually rendering them useless. With data on most current storage media having less than a ten-year life expectancy,
Video examples
How do hard drives work?...
This amazing advance in storage capacity wasn't just a matter of making everything smaller, but involved multiple innovations. A technique called the thin film lithography process allowed engineers to shrink the reader and writer.
Video examples
David Attenborough Eats...
these golden globes hanging from the roof are their storage pots full of honey each one is alive an ant with an abdomen expanded to the size of a grape the small dark flecks are the hard plates which protect the body of a
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Sleep is your superpower...
that acts like a file-transfer mechanism at night, shifting memories from a short-term vulnerable reservoir to a more permanent long-term storage site within the brain, and therefore protecting them, making them safe.
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Klaus Lackner
American Scientist
It is important that carbon storage is carefully regulated, that the process is transparent to the public, and that there is a clear accounting of what happened to the CO2. This is particularly true of underground storage, where there is always a small chance that pressurized CO2 could escape.
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Jim Cornette
American Author
Well, I don't want to say mad, but there was 'heated' exchanges back in the closing days of OVW when I said that I was running our own business there in OVW and they said, no, we are running their storage closet. They didn't actually say that, but that was how they treated it.
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Ernie Pyle
American Journalist
The American soldier is quick in adapting himself to a new mode of living. Outfits which have been here only three days have dug vast networks of ditches three feet deep in the bare brown earth. They have rigged up a light here and there with a storage battery.
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David Suzuki
Canadian Scientist
The human brain had a vast memory storage. It made us curious and very creative. Those were the characteristics that gave us an advantage - curiosity, creativity and memory. And that brain did something very special. It invented an idea called 'the future.
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Jennifer Hyman
American Businesswoman
Every single person around the world has this storage facility in their bedroom, and we call it a closet, and 80 percent of the stuff in that storage facility is worn three times or less in its lifetime.
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Bo Bennett
American Businessman
Traditional investment vehicles such as IRAs, CDs, stocks and bonds do have their place, but for the rich, they are used more as temporary storage facilities rather than life-long homes.
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Alex Guarnaschelli
American Chef
It's essential to make sure you have proper kitchen tools for food storage - like cling wrap, bags, and containers - because they help keep food fresher longer.
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Damon Hill
British Athlete
To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.
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Jonathan Scott
Canadian Entertainer
A good laundry room with storage can make life easier.
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P. J. O'Rourke
American Comedian
The good thing about SUVs is they have storage.
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Klaus Lackner
American Scientist
It is important that carbon storage is carefully regulated, that the process is transparent to the public, and that there is a clear accounting of what happened to the CO2. This is particularly true of underground storage, where there is always a small chance that pressurized CO2 could escape.
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Jim Cornette
American Author
Well, I don't want to say mad, but there was 'heated' exchanges back in the closing days of OVW when I said that I was running our own business there in OVW and they said, no, we are running their storage closet. They didn't actually say that, but that was how they treated it.
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Ernie Pyle
American Journalist
The American soldier is quick in adapting himself to a new mode of living. Outfits which have been here only three days have dug vast networks of ditches three feet deep in the bare brown earth. They have rigged up a light here and there with a storage battery.
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David Suzuki
Canadian Scientist
The human brain had a vast memory storage. It made us curious and very creative. Those were the characteristics that gave us an advantage - curiosity, creativity and memory. And that brain did something very special. It invented an idea called 'the future.
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Jennifer Hyman
American Businesswoman
Every single person around the world has this storage facility in their bedroom, and we call it a closet, and 80 percent of the stuff in that storage facility is worn three times or less in its lifetime.
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Bo Bennett
American Businessman
Traditional investment vehicles such as IRAs, CDs, stocks and bonds do have their place, but for the rich, they are used more as temporary storage facilities rather than life-long homes.
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Alex Guarnaschelli
American Chef
It's essential to make sure you have proper kitchen tools for food storage - like cling wrap, bags, and containers - because they help keep food fresher longer.
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Damon Hill
British Athlete
To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.
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Jonathan Scott
Canadian Entertainer
A good laundry room with storage can make life easier.
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P. J. O'Rourke
American Comedian
The good thing about SUVs is they have storage.
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