storagestor‧age /ˈstɔːrɪdʒ/ ●●○ W3 noun [uncountable] 
the storage of radioactive materialstorage space/capacity (=space etc for keeping things in) They moved to a house with lots of storage space.2when you pay to keep furniture or other goods in a special place until you need to use themin storage I put some of my things in storage. storage costs3the way that information is kept on a computer: data storage
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- Atkinson further recommended that universities should not hold large stocks in remote storage.
- But with digital instruments and digital storage, the data could be transferred through phone lines from the source to the computer.
- Furthermore, some media such as magnetic tapes are subject to storage degradation if they are not regularly used.
- He will not put his furniture in storage.
- It also ensures that the waste that is ultimately disposed of is in a good form for long-term storage.
- The company also devised a system of storage bags and labels to secure even the smallest items.
- Use of n-grams requires little storage or processing but is less efficient at discriminating between acceptable and unacceptable letter strings.
Longman Language Activatorto keep something in a particular place
· Where do you keep the scissors?keep something in/on/under etc something · We always keep the car in the garage.· My grandfather kept his teeth in a glass next to his bed.· Visitors are advised to keep their valuables with them at all times.
to keep something for a long period of time so that it is ready for you to use when you need it: · Store the medicine in a cool place.· The warehouse is being used to store food and clothes for the refugees.· The government plans to store the nuclear waste at a site in Nevada.
to store something, especially a large object or a large quantity of something, until the time when you are able to use it: · All our furniture is being kept in storage until we can find a new apartment.· The meat is kept in cold storage before being sent out to supermarkets.
to store something such as food for a long time, especially after treating it in a special way so that it does not decay: · Early settlers preserved meat by drying and salting it.· Human organs, preserved in jars, lined the shelves of the laboratory.
to collect and keep a large quantity of something secretly, because you think it might be useful at some time in the future - use this when you think the person who does this worries too much about keeping things for the future: · My grandmother hoards everything - jam jars, plastic bags, pieces of string - her house is a mess.· They've been hoarding food and water, convinced that some kind of catastrophe is coming.
WORD SETSaccess, verbaccess point, nounaccess time, nounaccounting system, accumulator, nounadd-on, nounADSL, nounaffective computing, nounAI, nounALGOL, nounalias, nounANSI, anti-spam, adjectiveanti-virus, adjectiveanti-virus software, nounAPL, nounapp, nounApple, Apple Macintosh, applet, nounapplication, nounapplication software, nounarcade game, nounarchitecture, nounarchive, nounarchive, verbarray, nounartificial intelligence, nounASCII, nounASIC, nounASP, nounassembly language, nounasynchronous, adjectiveAT&T, attachment, nounaudit trail, nounautomate, verbautomated, adjectiveautomation, nounavatar, nounB2B exchange, nounB2C, adjectiveB2E, adjectiveBabbage, Charles, backslash, nounbackspace, nounbackup, nounback-up copy, bandwidth, nounbar code, nounBASIC, nounbatch, nounbatch processing, nounbaud rate, nounBerners-Lee, Tim, bespoke, adjectivebeta test, nounBig Blue, bioinformatics, nounbiometric, adjectivebit, nounbitmap, nounBlackBerry, nounbloatware, nounblog, nounBluetooth, nounBMP, nounbond certificate, book entry, bookmark, nounbookmark, verbbook of final entry, nounbook of first entry, nounBoolean, adjectiveboot, verbbootable, adjectivebootstrapping, nounbot, nounbotnet, nounbps, brain dump, nounbroadband, nounbrown goods, nounbrowse, verbbrowser, nounbubble jet printer, nounbuddy list, nounbuffer, nounbuffer, verbbug, nounbulletin board, nounbundle, nounbundle, verbburn, verbbus, nounbusiness continuity services, nounbusiness continuity services, button, nounbyte, nounCabinet Office Briefing Rooms, cable modem, nouncache, nouncache, verbCAD, nounCAD/CAM, nounCAL, nounCalifornia, nounCALL, nounCAM, nounCambridge, Capita, caps lock, nouncapture, verbcapture, nouncard, nouncathode ray tube, nounCAT scan, nounCBT, nounCD-R, nounCD-ROM, nounCD-ROM drive, CDRW, nounCD-RW, nouncentral processing unit, nouncentral processor, nounCGI, nounCHAPS, character, nounchat room, nouncheat, nouncheckbox, nounchip, nounchip card, CIM, CIO, clerical assistant, click, verbclickable, adjectiveclient, nounclient machine, client-server, adjectiveclient/server architecture, clip art, nounclipboard, nouncloaking, nounclock cycle, nounclock speed, nounclone, nouncluster, nounCOBOL, nouncode, nouncoder, nouncom, Comdex, nouncommand, nouncomm port, comms, nouncompact disc, nounCompaq, compatibility, nouncompatible, adjectivecompatible, nouncompile, verbcompiler, nouncompress, verbcomputer, nouncomputer (industry) analyst, computer-aided, adjectivecomputer-aided design, nouncomputer-aided manufacture, computer-aided manufacturing, nouncomputer-assisted, adjectivecomputerate, adjectivecomputer-based training, computer-generated, adjectivecomputer-integrated manufacture, computerize, verbcomputer-literate, adjectivecomputer modelling, nouncomputer science, nouncomputer system, computer virus, nouncomputing, nounconcordance, nounconfiguration, nounconfigure, verbconnect, verbconnectivity, nounconsole, nouncontrol, nouncontrol key, nouncookie, nouncoordinate, nounCorel, corrupt, verbcounter, nouncourseware, nounCPU, nouncrack, verbcrack, nouncracker, nouncrash, verbcrash, nounCroft, Lara, cross-platform, adjectivecross-posting, nounCtrl, nouncursor, nouncut, verbcutover, nouncyber-, prefixcybercrime, nouncybernetics, nouncyberpunk, nouncybersickness, nouncyberspace, nouncyberterrorist, nouncyberwidow, noundata, noundata bank, noundatabase, noundatabase management, database management system, data capture, noundata centre, data dictionary, noundata encryption standard, noundata file, data interchange format file, data mining, noundata processing, noundata protection, Data Protection Act, the, Dateline, daytrader, nounday trading, nounDBMS, debug, verbdecision support system, decode, verbdecompress, verbdecrypt, verbdefault, noundefragment, verbDel, noundelete, verbdeletion, noundeliverable, noundematerialize, verbdemo, verbdemonstration version, denial of service attack, noundeselect, verbdesktop, noundesktop computer, noundesktop publishing, noundestination site, dialogue box, noundial-up, adjectivedigerati, noundigicam, noundigital nervous system, digital rights management, digital wallet, nounDilbert, direct access, noundirectory, noundisaster recovery, noundisc, noundisinfect, verbdisk, noundisk drive, noundiskette, noundisk operating system, display, noundisplay, verbdistributed processing, Dixons, dock, noundock, verbdocking station, noundocument, noundocument sharing, noundongle, nounDOS, noundot-matrix printer, noundouble click, verbdouble-click, verbdouble density, adjectivedown, adverbdownload, verbdownload, noundownloadable, adjectivedowntime, noundown time, downwardly compatible, adjectiveDP, noundrag, verbdrive, noun-driven, suffixdriver, noundropdown, noundrop down, noundrop-down menu, nounDTP, noundumb terminal, dump, verbdump, nounDVD, nounDVD-ROM, nounEasdaq, noune-book, noune-business, nounECN, noune-commerce, nouneditor, nounedutainment, noune-fatigue, nounE-FIT, nounEFTPOS, nounelectronic, adjectiveelectronic bill of lading, electronic cottage, nounelectronic data interchange, nounelectronic funds transfer, nounelectronic invoice, electronic mail, nounelectronic media, electronic publishing, nounelectronics, nounelectrosmog, nounEllison, Larry, email, nounemail account, embed, verbencrypt, verbend-to-end, adjectiveenter, verbenterprise application integration, nounentry, nounEPROM, noune-publishing, nounequipment leasing, erase, verbErnie, error, nounerror message, nounescape key, Ethernet, noune-ticket, nounE-ticket, nounexecutable, nounexecute, verbexecution, nounexit, verbexpansion card, nounexpansion slot, nounexpert system, nounexport, verbextension, nounextranet, nouneye scan, nounF2F, adjectivefabricator, nounfactory preset, nounfatware, nounfeed, verbfeed, nounfield, nounfifth generation computer, file, nounfile manager, nounfilename, nounfile sharing, nounfile transfer, filing system, filter, nounfirewall, nounfirmware, nounfirst generation, nounfirst in, first out, nounfirst-person shooter, nounfive nines, nounfixed wireless, nounflash, verbflash, nounflash drive, nounflash memory, nounflatscreen, adjectiveflat screen, flip chip, nounfloor broker, floppy disk, nounfly-by-wire, nounfolder, nounfont, nounfooter, nounfootprint, nounforklift upgrade, nounformat, verbFortran, nounforum, noun404, adjectivefreeware, nounftp, nounfunction, nounfunctionality, nounfunction key, nounfungible, adjectivefuzzy logic, nounGame Boy, gameplay, noungamer, noungaming, noungarbage in, garbage out, Gates, Bill, gateway, nounghost, nounGIF, noungigabit, noungigabyte, nounGIGO, GIS, nounGlitter, Gary, global, adjectiveGLOBEX, nounGMS, nounGoogle, gopher, noungraphical, adjectivegraphical user interface, noungraphics, noungraphics card, noungraphic software, grid computing, noungroupware, nounGUI, nounhack, verbhack, nounhacker, nounhacktivist, nounhandshake, nounhard copy, nounhard disk, nounhard drive, nounhardware, nounhard-wired, adjectiveHawk, Tony, Hawking, Stephen, head, nounheader, nounhelp, nounhelp desk, nounhelp menu, help screen, nounHewlett Packard, hexadecimal, adjectivehigh-definition, adjectivehigh-level, adjectivehigh-level language, highlight, verbhome computer, home office, nounhome shopping, hookup, nounhook-up, nounhost computer, hot key, nounhot link, nounhot spot, nounHTML, nounhttp, hyperlink, nounhypertext, nounIBM, icon, nounICT, nounidentifier, nouniMac, nounimport, verbinbox, nounincremental backup, nounincubator space, industrial design, infect, verbinfected, adjectiveinformation exchange, information retrieval, nouninformation system, information technology, nouninfowar, nouninitialize, verbinkjet printer, nouninput, nouninput, verbinput/output, adjectiveinstall, verbinstaller, nounInstinet, Intel, intelligent terminal, interactive, adjectiveinteractive whiteboard, nouninterface, nouninterface, verbInternational Securities Exchange, nounInternet cafe, nounInternet Service Provider, interpreter, nounintranet, nouninvoke, verbIP address, nouniPod, nouniris scan, nounISDN, nounISP, nounIT, nouniterate, verbiTunes, iTV, nounJava, nounjob, nounjob bank, Jobs, Steve, joystick, nounJPEG, nounK, KB, keno, nounkey, nounkeyboard, nounkeyboard, verbkeyboarder, nounkeypad, nounkeystroke, nounkeyword, nounkilobyte, nounkit, nounkludge, nounknowledge base, Kraftwerk, LAN, nounlanguage, nounlaptop, nounlaser disk, nounlaser printer, nounlaunch, verbLCD, nounlight industry, nounlight pen, nounline printer, nounlink, verbLinux, nounLISP, nounlisting paper, listserv, nounload, verblocal area network, nounlog file, LOGO, nounloop, nounlow-level, adjectiveMac, nounmachine, nounmachine code, nounmachine language, machine-readable, adjectiveMacintosh, nounmacro, nounmagnetic disk, nounmagnetic media, nounmagnetic tape, nounmail, nounmail, verbmailbomb, nounmailbox, nounmailing list, nounmail merge, nounmainframe, nounmainframe computer, main memory, manual, adjectivemaximize, verbmegabyte, nounmemory, nounmemory address, memory bank, nounmemory card, nounmemory hog, nounMemory Stick, nounmenu, nounmessage, nounmetadata, nounmicro, nounmicrochip, nounmicrocomputer, nounmicroelectronics, nounmicroprocessor, nounMicrosoft, MIDI, nounmigrate, verbmigration, nounMillennium bug, minicomputer, nounminimize, verbmips, mission-critical, adjectiveMIT, mixer, nounmodel, nounmodel, verbmodelling, nounmodem, nounmodule, nounmonitor, nounMoore, Gordon, Moore's Law, nounmorphing, nounmotherboard, nounMotorola, mouse, nounmouse mat, nounmouse miles, nounmouse potato, nounMP3 player, nounMP4 player, nounMPEG, nounMSC, nounMS-DOS, multimedia, adjectivemulti-player gaming, nounmultiple applications, multiplexer, nounmultitasking, nounnagware, nounNasdaq, nounNASDAQ, Naseem, Prince, National Market System, nounNEC, nerd, nounnest, verbNetscape Navigator, network, nounnetwork, verbneural computer, nounneural network, nounneuroinformatics, nounnewbie, nounnew economy, nounNintendo, node, nounnoise, nounnotebook, nounnumber-cruncher, nounnumber crunching, nounobject, nounobject language, object-oriented, adjectiveOCR, nounOfex, nounoffice machinery, offline, adverboff-line, adjectiveonline, adjectiveonline catalogue, online updating, nounon-screen, adjectiveopen, verbOpen Group, the, open outcry, nounopen system, nounoperating system, nounoperation, nounoptical character recognition, nounoptical fibre, nounoption, nounorder, nounorganizing business, OSI, nounoutbox, nounoutput, nounoutput, verbover-the-counter dealing, over-the-counter market, over-the-counter share, over-the-counter stock, over-the-counter trading, overwrite, verbP2P, adjectivepackage, nounpacket, nounpacket-switching, nounpage, nounpage break, nounpalette, nounpalm phone, nounpalmtop, nounpaperless, adjectiveparallel data query, parallel port, parallel processing, nounPASCAL, nounpass-along, adjectivepassword, nounpaste, verbpasting, nounpatch, nounpause, verbPC, nounPC Card, nounPDA, nounPDF, nounPDF file, pen drive, nounPentium, peripheral, adjectiveperipheral, nounpersonal communicator, nounpersonal computer, nounpersonal electronic device, nounpersonal organizer, nounpetaflop, nounphishing, nounping, verbpiracy, nounpirate, verbpixel, nounplasma screen, nounplatform, nounplatform game, nounPlayStation, plotter, nounplug and play, nounplug-and-play, adjectiveplug-in, nounpointer, nounpop-under, nounpop-up, nounport, nounport, verbportable, adjectivepost, verbpost-industrial, adjectivePostScript, nounPowerPoint, nounprint, verbprinter, nounprintout, nounprint-out, nounprint preview, nounprocess, verbprocessing, nounprocessor, nounprogram, nounprogram, verbprogram file, programmable, adjectiveprogrammer, nounprogramme trading, programming, nounprogramming language, PROLOG, nounPROM, nounprompt, verbprompt, nounprotocol, nounPsion, pull down, nounpull-down, adjectivepull-down menu, nounpunched card, nounquantum computer, nounQuarkXPress, queue, nounqwerty, adjectiveRAM, nounrandom access memory, nounread, verbread only memory, read-only memory, nounread-out, nounread-write, adjectivereal-time, adjectivereboot, verbrecall, verbre-chip, verbrecord, nounrecord, verbrefresh, verbreload, verbremaster, verbremote access, nounremote control, nounremote working, nounreseller, nounreset, verbrespawn, verbretinal scanner, nounretrieval, nounretrieve, verbretry, verbreturn, nounright-click, verbrip, verbroad warrior, nounrobot, nounrollover, nounROM, nounRoute 128, nounrouter, nounroutine, nounRSI, nounRTF, nounrun, verbsalami slicing, nounSamsung, save, verbscalability, nounscalable, adjectivescan, verbscanner, nounscramble, verbscreen, nounscreen-based, adjectivescreen dump, nounscreensaver, nounscreen saver, nounscreenshot, nounscroll, verbscroll bar, nounscroll key, SCSI, nounSEAQ, search, nounsearch, verbsearchable, adjectivesearch engine, nounSEATS, nounsecurity rating, SEGA, self-healing, adjectivesend, verbserial port, server, nounserver farm, nounservice bureau, nounservice pack, nounSET, nounset-up, nounSFA, nounSGML, nounshareware, nounshift, nounshift key, nounshoot-'em-up, nounshopping bot, sig file, nounsilicon, nounsilicon chip, nounSilicon Fen, nounSilicon Glen, Silicon Valley, sim, nounSIMM, nounsimulation, nounSinclair, Sir Clive, single sourcing, skin, nounslo-mo, adjectivesmall office/home office, nounsmart, adjectivesmart bomb, nounsneakernet, nounsoft copy, nounsoftware, nounsoftware engineering, SoHo, SOHO, nounSonic the Hedgehog, sort, nounsoundcard, nounsource code, nounspace bar, nounspam, nounspeech recognition, nounspeech recognition software, speech synthesizer, nounspellcheck, nounspellchecker, nounspell-checker, nounspider, nounspider food, nounspim, nounsplit screen, nounspreadsheet, nounspreadsheet software, spyware, nounstandalone, adjectivestand-alone, adjectivestandby time, nounStarr Report, the, nounstarter pack, nounstart-up, nounstorage, nounstorage unit, store, verbstore-and-forward, nounstrategic information system, stream, verbstreaming, nounStreet Fighter, string, nounstylus, nounsubdirectory, nounsubroutine, nounsuite, nounSun Microsystems, sunrise industry, nounsupercomputer, nounsuperserver, nounsupport, verbsupport, nounswitching, nounsynchronous, adjectivesyntax, nounsynthespian, nounsystem, nounsystem administrator, nounsystems analyst, nounsystems programmer, system tray, nountab, verbtab key, nountab stop, nountag, nountag, verbtape, nountape drive, taskbar, nountechie, nountechnical support, nountechno-, prefixtechnocracy, nountechno-geek, nountechnophobe, nountechy, telecentre, nountelecommuter, nountelematics, nounteleprinter, nounteleworker, nountemplate, nounterabyte, nounteraflop, nounterminal, nountestdeck, nountext-to-speech, adjectivethird-generation, adjectivethird-party software, thumbnail, nountickbox, nountick box, nountime out, nountime-sharing, nountitle bar, nountoggle, nountoner, nountoolbar, nountoolbox, nounTOPIC, nountop-level domain, nountop ranking, nounTorvalds, Linus, Toshiba, Tottenham Court Road, touchpad, nountouch screen, nountrackball, nountransaction processing, transputer, nounTrojan horse, nountroubleshooter, nounTTS, Turing, Alan, tutorial, nounundo, verbuninstall, verbunique visitor, nounUnix, noununlisted share, unlisted stock, unrecoverable error, unzip, verbup, adverbupdate, nounupgrade, verbupload, verbupload, nounuptime, nounusability, nounUSB, nounUSB drive, nounuser-friendly, adjectiveuser group, nounuser interface, nounuser name, nounUS Robotics, utility, nounVActor, nounvalid, adjectivevalue-added reseller, vapourware, nounVDT, nounVDU, nounVGA, nounvideocard, nounvideo game, nounvideo snacking, nounviral marketing, nounvirtual, adjectivevirtual corporation, virtually, adverbvirtual memory, nounvirtual office, nounvirtual organization, virtual reality, nounvirus, nounvoice print, nounvoice recognition, wallpaper, nounWAN, nounWAP, noun-ware, suffixwar game, nounWAV, nounwearable, nounWeb 2.0, nounweb browser, nounweb crawler, nounweb design, nounweb development, web-enabled, adjectiveweb hosting, nounweb log, nounweb log file, wide area network, wi-fi, nounWi-Fi, nounwild card, nounwindow, nounWindows, Wintel, wipe, verbWiponet, nounwireless internet, wireless networking, nounWord, Wordperfect, word processor, nounworkspace, nounworkstation, nounWorld Wide Web, the, worm, nounWozniak, Steve, write, verbwrite-protected, adjectiveWYSIWYG, nounXbox, XML, nounY2K, nounYahoo!, zap, verbzip file, nounzombie, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY a fuel storage depot Somehow the chemical got from a storage tank into water supplies. storage unitsCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
1the process of keeping or putting something in a special place while it is not being used: (=space etc for keeping things in) They moved to a house with lots of storage space.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES They moved to a house with lots of storage space. (=a place for keeping things that are not being used)· There’s a temporary storage area where you can put those boxes.
(=for storing things in)· Plastic storage boxes are useful for putting things in the attic.
(=how much information a computer disk, CD-Rom etc can hold)· The storage capacity is about 250 megabytes.
(=for storing things in)· There are a lot of old toys in storage containers in the attic.
British English (=for storing things)· There's a storage cupboard under the stairs.
a fuel storage depot (=a computer device for storing information electronically)· You may need an additional storage device if you have a lot of data.
Somehow the chemical got from a storage tank into water supplies. storage units· Much depends on whether Mayor Brown decides to take his campaign promise out of cold storage.· As might be expected this is accelerated by heat, making cold storage essential.· I can hear them rumble into cold storage down the coal chute.· Only 3 to 4in is required between the shower and the base of cold water storage tank.· Like the political career of the man who envisioned it, the satellite may face a prolonged period in cold storage.· Remember that cold water storage tanks, header tanks, and all exposed pipework must be insulated to prevent freeze-ups.· Dry hops and finings are added to cask conditioned beer. Cold storage and filtration for keg and bottled beers.
· So the slurry goes into large storage tanks or lagoons.· The districts, whose three large storage tanks hold 51 million gallons, used about 23 million gallons a day last May.· Rain falling on to the theatre nearby was collected in a channel circling the orchestra to fill a large rock-cut storage cistern.· All of these devices offer large amounts of storage on relatively low-cost cartridges or disks.· Windows will be larger, overhead storage compartments will be enclosed and the toilet compartments will have natural light and changing tables.· Electronic filing would require very large storage capacities for maps and technical drawings. 4.· Cheaper memory, faster processors, and larger storage devices, come on to the market with increasing rapidity.· Oil and gas systems are similar to each other, but oil requires a large storage tank and a reliable delivery service.
· If the entire index is in main storage, the correct cylinder to search is located in well under a millisecond.· But when we opened the door to the main storage room, we saw that everything there too had been smashed.· The main storage medium inside willow seeds, ants and all other living cells is not electronic but chemical.· These generally refer to finding a self-indexing function for tables in main storage.· Ideally, the indexes should be held in main storage.· The work areas required in main storage are relatively small as only one record is being examined at any one time.· Now a process's occupation of main storage and transput devices changes relatively slowly.
· A temporary storage depot would have to be established by 1995 and a second would have to be available around 2005.· The shipping companies deal with temporary storage of parts; only what is needed that day appears at the plant.· Windows 95 handles temporary storage differently, but still uses a swap file.
NOUN· The home record storage area holds the address of the first synonym.· Police reported they had seized appliances, clothing, video and audio tapes from 30 warehouses and storage areas.· Manure seepage from storage areas is polluting waterways and evaporating ammonia is contributing to acid rain.· Another was a storage area for listening equipment.· New storage areas have been created by raising the Planning floor to mezzanine level.· Those specialists were left functionally aligned, and remained in the remote storage area.· The lower floors will house administrative offices and storage areas.· Books and posters, shirts and sweatshirts and pounds of petrified wood spilled from the storage areas.
· This will store more than 50 times as much data as the floppy disks with the biggest storage capacity!· A non-elastic limitation is the available disk storage capacity.· What is clear is that the costs of memory and storage devices are decreasing, whilst storage capacity is increasing enormously.· Woodacon Oils continued to be a steady performer, increasing its product storage capacity.· As far as storage capacity is concerned, the situation is equally dire.· The machine had a massive storage capacity which could nevertheless fit into a handbag.· Instead, manufacturers are encouraging us to buy faster machines with more storage capacity and better displays.· Woodacon Oils continued to perform steadily, increasing product storage capacity.
· Thus we have a processor register called the accumulator, the same length as a word of computer storage.· That deal, which closed in February, combined the two companies into the leading independent maker of computer storage products.· Where possible, information was coded to cut down on computer storage and processing costs.
· Fats are passed to fat storage depots and sugars to the liver and muscles.· A temporary storage depot would have to be established by 1995 and a second would have to be available around 2005.· Also, the group's 100 storage depots have enough space to house 70 Royal Albert Halls.
· Connected to the computer is some form of storage device which enables information to be accessed and updated quickly.· Both services allow users to send their data over the Internet to company storage devices.· What is clear is that the costs of memory and storage devices are decreasing, whilst storage capacity is increasing enormously.· Sales of large-scale data storage devices also increased strongly, while earnings from computer maintenance services hardly changed.· The compression will let digital audio-visual services be carried by terrestrial and satellite channels, telecommunications networks or digital storage devices.· We have seen how staggeringly impressive it is as an accurate data storage device.· Cheaper memory, faster processors, and larger storage devices, come on to the market with increasing rapidity.· Hardware used to capture video images, process them, and send the digitised images to storage devices.
· Expansion in the number of users and disk storage supported are on there way.· The other kind is disk storage, commonly on a hard drive or floppy disk.· A non-elastic limitation is the available disk storage capacity.· This will slow it down, because random-access memory is much faster than disk storage.· When it comes to disk storage capacity spreadsheets don't normally take much space.· The disk storage available is defined by the System Supervisor for each lexicographer.· Both instruments have automatic setting of wavelength, bandwidth and gas flows, video displays, disk storage and full alpha-numeric keyboard.
· Limited cooking and food storage facilities are, however, available in the utility rooms on each floor.· Existing nuclear storage facilities are either full to overflowing or close to it.· To conserve your time, your energy, and gasoline, shop as infrequently as your storage facilities permit. 3.· This has several advantages: fragile items will be spared the cumulative damage resulting from repeated handling and removal from storage facilities.· Old charts were automatically retired to the storage facilities out here.· We are currently examining a possible replacement for the storage facility.· The Department of Energy completed the storage facility in 1988 after two decades of planning.
· Limited cooking and food storage facilities are, however, available in the utility rooms on each floor.· Plastic Lunch boxes, food storage containers, etc, may melt if stacked close to the heating elements.· Frozen food storage cabinets are designed to accept pre-frozen food and hold it at the proper storage temperature - 18°C to -22°C.
· He is always complaining about having to flog electric storage heaters anyway.· Check whether an off-peak electric storage heater or a gas fire might be better choice.
· Multimedia is now being used in training, point-of-information systems, communications and information storage and retrieval.· The rest was for information storage.· This, of course, is where the opportunity for information storage lies.· An information storage system for efficient storage of large volumes of information.· As the overall design progresses the information storage system becomes increasingly important.
· UniTree is a distributed client/server program that provides automatic and transparent file and storage management for networked, heterogeneous computing environments.· Unicenter is designed for automated production control, security, data center administration, resource accounting and storage management.· An OpenView storage management system is still under development for the second half of the year.
· It is not biased towards the way that the data may be accessed from storage media.· Second, it provides a choice of storage media for BLOBs which may have advantages both of cost and convenience.· Many early computers were serial, since they were built round serial storage media such as delay lines.· We have already touched upon the significance of compact discs and their increasingly standard use as storage media in multimedia systems.· Discs used as storage media for textual data as distinct from programs provide one example.
· We can see, then, how computers help to develop and extend information, as well as merely acting as the storage medium.· The main storage medium inside willow seeds, ants and all other living cells is not electronic but chemical.· The basic requirement for an advanced information technology is some kind of storage medium with a large number of memory locations.
· Specialised equipment and materials required for visually handicapped pupils can pose a storage problem.· For display through a television, one image needs about 800 kilobytes, making the storage problem even more acute.· Manipulating this much information puts a considerable strain on the processor's memory and gives you a storage problem to boot!· While this has greatly reduced the archival storage problem it has probably made the access problem worse.· National librarian, Brynley Roberts, says in his annual report this is already causing storage problems.
· By representing words in the definitions as integers, storage requirements decrease dramatically and efficient sorting routines become easily applicable.· Longer grams have greater storage requirements too, so there is a trade-off between performance and storage.· The dictionary method gives much greater error correction performance, with greater storage requirements and computational cost.· Firstly the storage requirement is significantly reduced since integers may be stored in a much smaller space than strings.· Some information has necessarily been removed from the dictionary to cut down on storage requirements.· This rule tends to reduce the number of nodes in the tree at the expense of storage requirements.· The use of a morphologically-based lexicon can lead to a large reduction in the storage requirements for the lexical information.
· Behind the door is the storage room in which the chilling took place.· But when we opened the door to the main storage room, we saw that everything there too had been smashed.· With no museum space, the discoveries are left in the storage rooms.
· Minatom remains evasive on the question of how the new storage sites will be financed.· Its lift on, lift-off operations there will now also be spread across two container terminals and an inland storage site.· It is now also possible for companies to investigate potential nuclear waste storage sites without the consent of local or state authorities.· This is preferable to stockpiling of leaking barrels at storage sites.
· The service you get is fairly standard, with no apparent limits imposed on storage space or attachment size.· Her theory is that a proliferation of culinary gadgets is putting pressure on kitchen storage space.· This will mean that the data requires more direct access storage space than a sequential file.· The place metamorphosed into storage space.· If many keys do not have records associated with them, then there is wastage in storage space.· Here, a single 90-minute video consuming over 100 gigabytes of storage space must be distributed to a large number of consumers.· An attempt was made to take advantage of the morphological structure of words to cut down on storage space and search time.· None the less Ares believes that for users with even a moderate number of typefaces in use, FontChameleon will save storage space.
· The method is only available for use with virtual storage systems, and offers access to records in three ways.· Data General reported strong sales of its CLARiiON data storage systems.· An unvented hot water storage system has many advantages over the normal vented system.· On-line backup offers several advantages over removable storage systems.· Another major area of risk with an offline storage system is encountered during the actual transfer.· Ever the aesthete, he admits that the container looks hideous but he likes the elegance of a dedicated storage system.· The console is not intended as a pattern storage system.· The hydrogen gas would be collected within the galls and piped to a central storage system.
· He was welding on top of a 900 ton oil storage tank which exploded, hurling him 120 feet into a wall.· The districts, whose three large storage tanks hold 51 million gallons, used about 23 million gallons a day last May.· As with the service propulsion system, the propellants were force-fed to the engine by pressurized helium from a storage tank.· The puff signals nearby storage tanks of calcium.· And the office building was next to the storage tank.· The gasoline additive had leaked from underground storage tanks at a Navy gas station.· That was before we installed the eight thousand gallon water storage tank, which Health and Safety thought could drown a child.· It put both the ammonia storage tank and the transmission line underground.
· Sinclair Research has promised to produce a small magnetic storage unit for its Spectrum computer.· During the summer off-peak months a proportion of gas is fed into storage units above and below ground.· As well as fitted storage units, there is a wide range of freestanding furniture, modular units and shelving on the market.· It had a storage unit on the bottom.
· An unvented hot water storage system has many advantages over the normal vented system.· Verse 24: the pit, here mercifully dry, was intended for water storage.· That was before we installed the eight thousand gallon water storage tank, which Health and Safety thought could drown a child.· Only 3 to 4in is required between the shower and the base of cold water storage tank.· Reckon each bath at around 60 litres to give you an idea of the amount of hot water storage that is needed.· Remember that cold water storage tanks, header tanks, and all exposed pipework must be insulated to prevent freeze-ups.· Consider an engineer running a water storage and distribution company.· Why are the U-shaped glaciated valleys suitable for water storage and for the building of dams?
VERB· In 25 years an extension will be built, extending the storage capacity until the year 2050.· Many early computers were serial, since they were built round serial storage media such as delay lines.· In 1962, the total amount of federally built reservoir storage in the nation was somewhere around 300 million acre-feet.
· Ideally, the indexes should be held in main storage.
· The room where paintings were kept in storage was no exception.· Personnel files are kept in secure storage, with strict conditions attached to access.· About a hundred works will travel from Paris, many of which are normally kept in storage for conservation reasons.
· Or you could line the walls with bookshelves from waist-level, with cupboards underneath to provide storage and serving space.· These frequently stand vacant but provide an anchorage and storage space.· The scheme involves dredging the main channel of the Medway estuary to provide a storage base for import-export cargoes.· The next step in the design was to provide adequate storage of water to meet the demand.· Second, it provides a choice of storage media for BLOBs which may have advantages both of cost and convenience.· Use the glazed cupboards to display attractive china and to provide storage space for attractively packaged dry goods.· It also provides local storage facilities, and interfaces for peripherals.
· Her theory is that a proliferation of culinary gadgets is putting pressure on kitchen storage space.· We put everything in storage until I moved nine months later.· He will not put his furniture in storage.· Existing missiles would be put in storage.· It put both the ammonia storage tank and the transmission line underground.· Others will be put into storage.
· In this situation, the video input requires no longterm storage.· It also requires a terminal storage facility.· This will mean that the data requires more direct access storage space than a sequential file.· A Senate committee approved legislation last week to require storage of the spent fuel in an interim facility in Nevada.· Use of n-grams requires little storage or processing but is less efficient at discriminating between acceptable and unacceptable letter strings.· Dictionary look-up methods give impressive error correction but require much greater storage and computation.· This would require a huge corpus, would be extremely difficult to estimate and would require too much storage.· We require much better storage facilities for exhibition material.
· Many of Whessoe's installations from the early years of this century still survive today and are used primarily for storage.· It would be lost in obscurity, perhaps still being used as unofficial storage space by its neighboring furniture gallery.· Microcomputers on the other hand generally use local storage on floppy disks.· Under most floors were dirt crawl spaces that could be used for storage.· A chemical sprout inhibitor should be used for long term storage.· Motion picture video is seldom used due to storage and performance limitations.· Cold-chain monitors were used during shipment and storage.· I then went on to use breastmilk storage bags to minimise confusion.
the storage of radioactive materialstorage space/capacity (=space etc for keeping things in) They moved to a house with lots of storage space.2when you pay to keep furniture or other goods in a special place until you need to use themin storage I put some of my things in storage. storage costs3the way that information is kept on a computer: data storage