library meaning
EN[ˈlaɪbɹəɹi] [ˈlaɪbəɹi] [ˈlaɪbɹi] [ˈlaɪˌbɹɛɹi] [ˈlaɪˌbɛɹi]US
WLibrary
- A library is a collection of sources of information and similar resources, made accessible to a defined community for reference or borrowing.
- The first libraries consisted of archives of the earliest form of writing—the clay tablets in cuneiform script discovered in Sumer, some dating back to 2600 BC.
- A library is organized for use and maintained by a public body, an institution, a corporation, or a private individual.
- NounPLlibrariesSUF-ary
- An institution which holds books and/or other forms of stored information for use by the public or qualified people. It is usual, but not a defining feature of a library, for it to be housed in rooms of a building, to lend items of its collection to members either with or without payment, and to provide various other services for its community of users.
- A collection of books or other forms of stored information.
- An equivalent collection of analogous information in a non-printed form, e.g. record library.
- (computer science) A collection of software subprograms that provides functionality, to be incorporated into or used by a computer program.
- A collection of DNA material from a single organism or relative to a single disease.
- (card games) The deck or draw pile.
- An institution which holds books and/or other forms of stored information for use by the public or qualified people. It is usual, but not a defining feature of a library, for it to be housed in rooms of a building, to lend items of its collection to members either with or without payment, and to provide various other services for its community of users.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- It was almost impossible to locate specific books in the library until we had alphabetized them by the authors' surnames.
- We bumped into each other at the library yesterday.
- He's such a Nigel: Hangs around in the library all day, by himself
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Libraries were validated on the Bioanalyzer using the High Sensitivity DNA Chip (Agilent) and equimolarly pooled for the sequencing run.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- To trigger neoblast proliferation and differentation, two days head and tail regenerating animals were used for the preparation of the libraries.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of library in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Nouns
- en librarying
- en libraryless
- en librarylike
- en library hand
- en library sort
Source: Wiktionary