英语词汇“repository”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	repository
释义	re·pos·i·to·ry I. \rə̇ˈpäzəˌtōrē, rēˈp-, -tȯr-, -ri\ noun (-es) Etymology: Latin repositorium, from repositus (past participle of reponere) + -orium -ory 1. : a place, room, or container where something is deposited or stored : depository < the child's desk … as a repository for his music papers and other oddments — Marcia Davenport > as a. : a building or room for the exhibition of a collection (as of works of art) : museum < a single museum serves not only as local repository for cultural monuments but also as a community center — Lincoln Kirstein > b. : a burial vault c. : a place where something is kept or shown for sale : a warehouse, store, or showroom < now had an office and a clerk and they had a repository … for their finished work — Ben Riker > d. : a side altar or niche in a Roman Catholic church where the consecrated Host is deposited from Maundy Thursday until Good Friday — called also altar of repose 2. : one that contains or stores something nonmaterial : storehouse < although well written and attractively printed, is little more than a repository of linguistic superstitions — R.A.Hall b.1911 > < theoretically the mob is the repository of all political wisdom and virtue — H.L.Mencken > 3. : a place or region richly supplied with some natural resource < the repository of fabulous oil resources — A.E.Stevenson b.1900 > 4. : a person to whom something is confided or entrusted < he had been an entranced repository of many secrets — John Buchan > II. adjective of a drug : designed to act over a prolonged period : slowly absorbed : depot < repository penicillin >
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