repository
repository
Definition
re·posi·tory (ri päz′ə tôr′ē)
noun pl. -·ries
- a box, chest, closet, or room in which things may be placed for safekeeping
- Now Rare a building for exhibiting objects; museum
- a burial vault; sepulcher
- any thing or person thought of as a center of accumulation or storage a repository of information
- a person to whom something is entrusted or confided; confidant
Etymology: LME repositorie < L repositorium < repositus, pp. of reponere, to put back < re-, back + ponere, to place: see position
adjective
acting gradually over a period of time: said of a drug
repository
Synonyms
repository
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- metadata: The dictionary is therefore more than just a repository of metadata.
- archives: Thus it is entirely appropriate that the Library is one of the most important repositories of textile archives.
Converse of object
- centralize: It's a centralized repository of the status of bugs in lots of different places.
- distribute: All three of these support the use of distributed repositories, and have recently been gaining popularity.
- browse: To browse the repository select Browse from the navigation bar on the left of the screen.
- establish: The two year project aims to establish a single Blended repository to meet the teaching and research needs of this institution.
Adjective modifier
- institutional: According to the authors, in the digital age the institutional repository could become the library's savior.
- e-print: How is an e-print repository integrated into an institution's electronic resources strategy?
- subject-based: Some subject-based repositories ( for example, for high-energy physics ) have been in existence for a number of years.
- centralized: Of course one may argue Google and Amazon are spectacular examples of centralized repositories.
- central: They are then fed into the NPSA's central repository of incident data.
- archive: The National Register of Archives publishes a list of all UK archive repositories, with links to their websites.
Modifies a noun
- identifier: Parameters: obj - The object reference to be checked. repository_id - The repository identifier of the interface to check against.
- administrator: Your document will be held in a document buffer pending approval by the repository administrator.
Noun used with modifier
- subversion: Access to the subversion repository is available on request.
- eprint: It aims to survey workflows in place in learning object and eprint repositories within the JISC FAIR and X4L programs.
- portlet: All Providers Manage: Display and refresh the portlet repository.
- cvs: I consider these tests as successful and will add a module to the GLIMMER cvs repository once I get to go from Ed.
- metadata: OCLC is supplementing its rich metadata repository with a digital library offering.
- data: It provides controlled real-time access to information held within the central data repository.
Browse dictionary entries near repository
- reposition
- reposit
- reposeful
- repose
- reposal
- reports
- reporting level
- reporting
- reporter
- reportedly
- repossess
- repoussé
- repp
- repr
- reprehend
- reprehensible
- reprehension
- represent
- representation
- representational
