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Definition of garage in English:

garage

noun ˈɡarɑː(d)ʒɡəˈrɑːʒˈɡarɪdʒ
  • 1A building for housing a motor vehicle or vehicles.

    汽车间,汽车库

    a detached house with an integral garage
    a bus garage
    Example sentencesExamples
    • We built office buildings, parking garages, and prisons.
    • It is the largest building occupied by Laois Civil Defence and contains two vehicle garages and lecture room.
    • Ford tucked the photograph and the address into his jacket and headed to the garage below his apartment building.
    • She said the van of her boyfriend had been damaged three nights in a row while it was parked on the street and he had now been forced to rent a garage to keep his vehicle safe.
    • Retrospective planning permission for the garage and underneath storage building, which is on green belt land, had already been refused.
    • One of their cars is at their apartment, and the other parked in the garage of the apartment building where Joe and I live.
    • The remaining outbuildings include a garage, barn, two fowl houses, two stables, four old stores and two boathouses.
    • Many fires started when lava ignited gasoline stored in buildings and garages in this eastern Congo town.
    • Bloomfield is a two-storey Victorian building with garages, courtyard and conservatory and has been vacant for two years.
    • It boasts many outbuildings, a guest house, workshop, garages and even air raid bunkers.
    • Ensure all doors and windows are secured and buildings like sheds, garages and outhouses have good quality locks and even alarms fitted.
    • In addition to the existing pub there are two garages and offices, as well as housing.
    • The new building will include facilities for visiting surveyors, offices, rescue team equipment, a garage for three vehicles and a workshop.
    • The garages are behind a building company premises.
    • The Council's executive member for the environment appealed to drivers to put their vehicles in driveways and garages to keep roads clear for gritting.
    • Its outbuildings include a double garage, greenhouse, potting shed, kennels and workshop.
    • Both homes will have integral garages to the front, and will share driveway access from a new entrance on Shady Lane.
    • Zoning permits carriage houses, thus providing flexible space for a home office, an in-law apartment, or affordable rental housing above garages.
    • There is also a range of stone outbuildings including a coach house, two garages, a workshop and log store.
    • To the left of the driveway a cubic building, housing the garage and chauffeur's flat above, guards the courtyard just beyond.
    Synonyms
    car port, lock-up
    depot, terminus, terminal, base, headquarters
    bus station, coach station
    1. 1.1 An establishment which sells fuel or which repairs and sells motor vehicles.
      加油站;汽车修理厂
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The garage is selling petrol at 97.9 cent per litre.
      • The study in France found a link between cases of acute leukaemia among youngsters and how close they lived to a petrol station or a garage carrying out car repairs.
      • Another problem faced by drivers was grit and dirt being thrown up from the roads and plastering windscreens and there were even reports of motorists queuing at garages to buy screenwash.
      • Why is Belmont Motors the only garage getting fuel?
      • She added that the town had lost garages, hotels and workshops needed to ensure Ilkley was a balanced and independent community.
      • There was a garage for repairs, petrol pumps, a shop, taxi service and private cars for hire.
      • Wigan and Oldham are the best places in the area to fill up if you are looking to save the pennies, with the cheapest garages there selling unleaded petrol at 79.9p a litre.
      • When I buy a car, I don't expect that I'll have to keep returning it to the garage for constant repairs.
      • Having sold a chain of garages and moved into property ownership, Paul has devoted more time to the race and developed a business helping others to get their rally adventures off the ground.
      • The only place the councils should be getting involved here is with the existing Trading Standards officers that they control to clamp down on garages who pass these vehicles on their annual test.
      • Shell currently supplies fuel to the garage but there is no long-term arrangement in place and purchasers can link up to any fuel company they like.
      • Craven District Council made its garage available so that vehicles could be thoroughly checked, as the council and the local taxi owners are keen to see that all taxis are safe.
      • Independent garages that want to service, repair or sell a variety of marques will need to invest in many areas.
      • He said the garage had stopped selling petrol and closed its small convenience store in December last year, but still operated as an MOT and repair workshop.
      • Schools, supermarkets, banks, post offices, garages, buses, the passenger rail service and others are all expected to be slowed down by absent workers.
      • That meant the companies' own garages got fuel cheaper than independent rivals, who were priced out of the market.
      • If we are not careful we will end up with a town full of houses and nothing else, as hotels, garages, nursing homes, pubs, clubs, churches and shops succumb to the smug economic reality of spiralling property prices.
      • We submitted a vehicle to seven garages, all of which failed to spot at least one significant fault identified by a senior RAC inspector as MOT fails.
      • But perhaps the main reason why most people shy away from LPG conversions is that it is sometimes difficult to find a garage that sells the fuel.
      • Another example of a possessory lien is if you take your truck to a garage for repairs, the garage can keep possession of your truck until you pay the repair bill.
      Synonyms
      petrol station, service station
      Australian informal servo
  • 2mass noun A style of unpolished, energetic rock music associated with suburban amateur bands.

    车库摇滚(与城郊业余乐队有关的风格粗犷,充满激情的摇滚乐)

    as modifier a garage band
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The bass player plays some gnarly fuzz bass that underscores the band's songs and adds rumble to the band's garage rock sound.
    • The Pedestrians are a similar ilk of kitchen sink tales set to garage rock and new wave styling.
    • In one short year, the band apparently got a grip on their distinctive mix of garage rock, rockabilly, and crude humor - and crowds were apparently taking notice.
    • Its rough and edgy production makes the record sound perfect for the demented brand of new wave garage rock the band were practicing at the time.
    • Whilst garage rock has blustered into the mainstream, this is a band that has more or less written the book on 21st century glittered, gutter level, punk with an IQ.
    • The spunky ‘Vertigo’ is a breezy sprint through jagged, two-chord garage rock.
    • All members had good record collections and remained committed to a specific musical narrative that began with garage rock and the Velvet Underground.
    • The relaxed instrumentation elevates the insightful vocals, creating a sound best described as progressive garage rock.
    • Like any self-respecting garage rock band, they take it to every track, with no breaks for sissy ballads.
    • A substantial percentage of garage rock fans are considerably younger than the music they enjoy, so nostalgia is obviously not a factor.
    • Old school garage rock may be fun and sloppy, but the amateur aesthetic has its limits when one hits a professional stage.
    • Sonic Youth's 19th album doesn't break any new ground, but it does serve as a reminder that the band invented this style of music - garage rock with avant-garde scope and ambition.
    • In short, this is about as idiosyncratic as garage rock gets.
    • The White Stripes cannot single-handedly satiate one man's desire for primal garage rock.
    • Nearly three years ago, they had hopped on the Whites Stripes wagon of American garage rock under a band name of Pavor.
    • The band, a stunning combination of garage rock simplicity and punk attitude is also steeped to the gills in 1960s style soul.
    • If you're in the market for an answer to the sometimes-lackluster garage rock offerings, Reigning Sound might be just what you're looking for.
    • Tacking on vibraphones to clumsy, endlessly repetitive garage rock does nothing but emphasize the complete lack of original ideas that plagues this album.
    • After literally half an hour The Kills left the stage but in such a short time they had certainly convinced the audience that they are not just another garage rock band looking to make a fast buck on the style bandwagon.
    • Both artists are born out of DJ culture and enjoy wildly diverse musical tastes, which isn't to say that this is merely a voguish rediscovery of garage rock.
  • 3mass noun A form of dance music incorporating elements of drum and bass, house music, and soul, characterized by a rhythm in which the second and fourth beats of the bar are omitted.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Do you need large doses of garage, deep house and Afro Latin rhythms to get your head together?
    • His singles have skillfully mixed pop R & B with gentle hints of UK garage rhythms.
    • Ska, dub, house, drum and bass, hip hop and UK garage have all been thrown in to The Streets' sampler for processing and rearrangement.
    • In recent years, both hip-hop and UK garage have developed a culture of duality.
    • From hardcore to house to UK garage, he has had a hand in it all.
    • The soundtrack, meanwhile, has moved away from his UK garage and hip hop origins and takes in everything from soul, dance and chillout to rock and anything else he fancies.
    • Within UK garage there are different genres of music: sublow, grime, 4/4 and old school.
    • But its contents were more like proto-grime, the beats mostly two-step and UK garage, and the vibe far more playful and genial, courtesy of now almost forgotten crews like Heartless and Genius.
    • So it's perfectly natural that modern production will incorporate quality blends of R & B, soul and garage with positive results.
    • However, this subsequent release is proof positive that Oxide and Neutrino are no one trick pony; in fact, Execute is perhaps the definitive UK garage album so far.
    • He is one of the pioneers of UK garage.
    • Just as Radio Caroline in the 1960s paved the way for Radio 1, the London pirates are turning garage and dance music into commercial hits.
    • There are echoes of hip-hop, reggae, socca, calypso and soul in garage.
    • They moved away from UK garage to a more hip hop sound.
    • Later he would DJ a largely R&B set, but before long he found the addictive heavy reggae basslines and the energy of the garage rhythms more to his taste.
    • The sound is a direct descendant of old skool UK garage, the bumpy beats of yore with rubbery basslines and cutting edge sampling techniques, taking in everything from soul to electro to jazz to blue grass.
    • Locked into US hip-hop, Jamaican ragga and UK garage culture, he and his peers couldn't be more isolated from Westminster.
    • The number of pirate stations has doubled in 10 years, finding audiences for otherwise neglected music such as UK garage and drum 'n' bass, or using £400 homemade transmitters to spread anarchist or black-power propaganda.
    • Drum & bass has infiltrated house and hip hop and garage, which is good because it keeps things changing.
    • Consequently, the album sews punk, northern soul, hip hop, garage and electronica together and then pulls the whole lot inside out.
verb ˈɡarɑː(d)ʒɡəˈrɑːʒˈɡarɪdʒ
[with object]
  • Put or keep (a motor vehicle) in a garage.

    把(汽车)开进(或停在)汽车库(或汽车修理厂)

    the car needn't be garaged in the winter
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The Ford is garaged every night and it is always in good running order.
    • I drive a Fiat Brava, garaged in one of the lowest risk areas in Britain.
    • We all have the right to pass along it unhindered and no one has the right to garage their car permanently on the highway.
    • One day, he announced that he was buying a motorcycle combination, and that he would have to build a shed to garage it.
    • It is only used as a fine-weather car and is garaged.
    • Additional security measures, such as garaging the car, can also bring down premiums.
    • In Class One, the Buggies up to 6000 cc, former winners Mark and Michael will again be at the start line in their MBR Jimco, which is normally garaged in Burrumbeet, Victoria.
    • The vehicles will actually be garaged at Bramley station but in terms of cover this standby point will provide the same as a small ambulance station, which is what we would class the old Horsforth station as.
    • Sadly it seems that unless your car is garaged overnight you may, in future, have to take a quick peek at the front of your motor each morning to check that all is well.
    • The lion's share of theft takes place outside people's homes, so insurers may be reluctant to give cover to a bike that is not garaged at night.
    • As it isn't, it could be something unusual that occurs only when you garage the car.
    • When I was in high school a friend drove a 1970 Impala that his gearhead dad had kept garaged for years.
    • Capable of garaging the team's four Land Rovers, its extensive rescue gear, the base now boasts a control room, offices, meeting room, kitchen, showers, and a place for relatives to wait pending news of a recovery operation.
    • Data showed that consumers wanted year-round performance in a sedan or coupe, rather than purchasing a sport utility while garaging their existing rear-wheel-drive luxury car.
    • During the trial period the test car was not garaged, but exposed to moderately cold Michigan weather and one light snowfall.
    • To stay a week in 1946 was five guineas all inclusive of breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner, plus one and six to garage the car.
    • She let her employment contract run out, rented out her house and garaged the car.

Derivatives

  • garaging

  • nounˈɡarɑːdʒɪŋˈɡarədʒɪŋ
    • Increased use of the motor car meant a general increase in the provision of garaging.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Other ways of getting the premium down include garaging and additional security measures.
      • Theft is another major problem, which is why good garaging is so important.
      • He claimed he often kept the school minibus at his own home because of the lack of garaging at the school.
      • The original attraction was that the barn offered garaging space for his collection of classic cars.

Origin

Early 20th century: from French, from garer 'to shelter'.

  • This is an adoption of a French word, from garer ‘to shelter’.

Rhymes

barrage

Definition of garage in US English:

garage

noun
  • 1A building for housing a motor vehicle or vehicles.

    汽车间,汽车库

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It is the largest building occupied by Laois Civil Defence and contains two vehicle garages and lecture room.
    • One of their cars is at their apartment, and the other parked in the garage of the apartment building where Joe and I live.
    • Retrospective planning permission for the garage and underneath storage building, which is on green belt land, had already been refused.
    • Many fires started when lava ignited gasoline stored in buildings and garages in this eastern Congo town.
    • The new building will include facilities for visiting surveyors, offices, rescue team equipment, a garage for three vehicles and a workshop.
    • The remaining outbuildings include a garage, barn, two fowl houses, two stables, four old stores and two boathouses.
    • Its outbuildings include a double garage, greenhouse, potting shed, kennels and workshop.
    • The garages are behind a building company premises.
    • She said the van of her boyfriend had been damaged three nights in a row while it was parked on the street and he had now been forced to rent a garage to keep his vehicle safe.
    • There is also a range of stone outbuildings including a coach house, two garages, a workshop and log store.
    • In addition to the existing pub there are two garages and offices, as well as housing.
    • Ford tucked the photograph and the address into his jacket and headed to the garage below his apartment building.
    • Bloomfield is a two-storey Victorian building with garages, courtyard and conservatory and has been vacant for two years.
    • To the left of the driveway a cubic building, housing the garage and chauffeur's flat above, guards the courtyard just beyond.
    • We built office buildings, parking garages, and prisons.
    • Ensure all doors and windows are secured and buildings like sheds, garages and outhouses have good quality locks and even alarms fitted.
    • Both homes will have integral garages to the front, and will share driveway access from a new entrance on Shady Lane.
    • It boasts many outbuildings, a guest house, workshop, garages and even air raid bunkers.
    • Zoning permits carriage houses, thus providing flexible space for a home office, an in-law apartment, or affordable rental housing above garages.
    • The Council's executive member for the environment appealed to drivers to put their vehicles in driveways and garages to keep roads clear for gritting.
    Synonyms
    car port, lock-up
    depot, terminus, terminal, base, headquarters
    1. 1.1 An establishment that provides services and repairs for motor vehicles.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Another problem faced by drivers was grit and dirt being thrown up from the roads and plastering windscreens and there were even reports of motorists queuing at garages to buy screenwash.
      • The only place the councils should be getting involved here is with the existing Trading Standards officers that they control to clamp down on garages who pass these vehicles on their annual test.
      • Wigan and Oldham are the best places in the area to fill up if you are looking to save the pennies, with the cheapest garages there selling unleaded petrol at 79.9p a litre.
      • We submitted a vehicle to seven garages, all of which failed to spot at least one significant fault identified by a senior RAC inspector as MOT fails.
      • She added that the town had lost garages, hotels and workshops needed to ensure Ilkley was a balanced and independent community.
      • He said the garage had stopped selling petrol and closed its small convenience store in December last year, but still operated as an MOT and repair workshop.
      • Another example of a possessory lien is if you take your truck to a garage for repairs, the garage can keep possession of your truck until you pay the repair bill.
      • Having sold a chain of garages and moved into property ownership, Paul has devoted more time to the race and developed a business helping others to get their rally adventures off the ground.
      • When I buy a car, I don't expect that I'll have to keep returning it to the garage for constant repairs.
      • Why is Belmont Motors the only garage getting fuel?
      • If we are not careful we will end up with a town full of houses and nothing else, as hotels, garages, nursing homes, pubs, clubs, churches and shops succumb to the smug economic reality of spiralling property prices.
      • Schools, supermarkets, banks, post offices, garages, buses, the passenger rail service and others are all expected to be slowed down by absent workers.
      • That meant the companies' own garages got fuel cheaper than independent rivals, who were priced out of the market.
      • The study in France found a link between cases of acute leukaemia among youngsters and how close they lived to a petrol station or a garage carrying out car repairs.
      • Craven District Council made its garage available so that vehicles could be thoroughly checked, as the council and the local taxi owners are keen to see that all taxis are safe.
      • But perhaps the main reason why most people shy away from LPG conversions is that it is sometimes difficult to find a garage that sells the fuel.
      • There was a garage for repairs, petrol pumps, a shop, taxi service and private cars for hire.
      • The garage is selling petrol at 97.9 cent per litre.
      • Independent garages that want to service, repair or sell a variety of marques will need to invest in many areas.
      • Shell currently supplies fuel to the garage but there is no long-term arrangement in place and purchasers can link up to any fuel company they like.
      Synonyms
      petrol station, service station
  • 2A style of unpolished, energetic rock music associated with suburban amateur bands.

    车库摇滚(与城郊业余乐队有关的风格粗犷,充满激情的摇滚乐)

    as modifier a garage band
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Whilst garage rock has blustered into the mainstream, this is a band that has more or less written the book on 21st century glittered, gutter level, punk with an IQ.
    • Tacking on vibraphones to clumsy, endlessly repetitive garage rock does nothing but emphasize the complete lack of original ideas that plagues this album.
    • The bass player plays some gnarly fuzz bass that underscores the band's songs and adds rumble to the band's garage rock sound.
    • A substantial percentage of garage rock fans are considerably younger than the music they enjoy, so nostalgia is obviously not a factor.
    • Both artists are born out of DJ culture and enjoy wildly diverse musical tastes, which isn't to say that this is merely a voguish rediscovery of garage rock.
    • In one short year, the band apparently got a grip on their distinctive mix of garage rock, rockabilly, and crude humor - and crowds were apparently taking notice.
    • Nearly three years ago, they had hopped on the Whites Stripes wagon of American garage rock under a band name of Pavor.
    • If you're in the market for an answer to the sometimes-lackluster garage rock offerings, Reigning Sound might be just what you're looking for.
    • The White Stripes cannot single-handedly satiate one man's desire for primal garage rock.
    • Old school garage rock may be fun and sloppy, but the amateur aesthetic has its limits when one hits a professional stage.
    • In short, this is about as idiosyncratic as garage rock gets.
    • After literally half an hour The Kills left the stage but in such a short time they had certainly convinced the audience that they are not just another garage rock band looking to make a fast buck on the style bandwagon.
    • Like any self-respecting garage rock band, they take it to every track, with no breaks for sissy ballads.
    • The band, a stunning combination of garage rock simplicity and punk attitude is also steeped to the gills in 1960s style soul.
    • The Pedestrians are a similar ilk of kitchen sink tales set to garage rock and new wave styling.
    • Sonic Youth's 19th album doesn't break any new ground, but it does serve as a reminder that the band invented this style of music - garage rock with avant-garde scope and ambition.
    • The spunky ‘Vertigo’ is a breezy sprint through jagged, two-chord garage rock.
    • The relaxed instrumentation elevates the insightful vocals, creating a sound best described as progressive garage rock.
    • All members had good record collections and remained committed to a specific musical narrative that began with garage rock and the Velvet Underground.
    • Its rough and edgy production makes the record sound perfect for the demented brand of new wave garage rock the band were practicing at the time.
  • 3A form of dance music incorporating elements of drum and bass, house music, and soul, characterized by a rhythm in which the second and fourth beats of the bar are omitted.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • However, this subsequent release is proof positive that Oxide and Neutrino are no one trick pony; in fact, Execute is perhaps the definitive UK garage album so far.
    • Drum & bass has infiltrated house and hip hop and garage, which is good because it keeps things changing.
    • They moved away from UK garage to a more hip hop sound.
    • From hardcore to house to UK garage, he has had a hand in it all.
    • Do you need large doses of garage, deep house and Afro Latin rhythms to get your head together?
    • There are echoes of hip-hop, reggae, socca, calypso and soul in garage.
    • Locked into US hip-hop, Jamaican ragga and UK garage culture, he and his peers couldn't be more isolated from Westminster.
    • Ska, dub, house, drum and bass, hip hop and UK garage have all been thrown in to The Streets' sampler for processing and rearrangement.
    • But its contents were more like proto-grime, the beats mostly two-step and UK garage, and the vibe far more playful and genial, courtesy of now almost forgotten crews like Heartless and Genius.
    • Later he would DJ a largely R&B set, but before long he found the addictive heavy reggae basslines and the energy of the garage rhythms more to his taste.
    • So it's perfectly natural that modern production will incorporate quality blends of R & B, soul and garage with positive results.
    • In recent years, both hip-hop and UK garage have developed a culture of duality.
    • The sound is a direct descendant of old skool UK garage, the bumpy beats of yore with rubbery basslines and cutting edge sampling techniques, taking in everything from soul to electro to jazz to blue grass.
    • The soundtrack, meanwhile, has moved away from his UK garage and hip hop origins and takes in everything from soul, dance and chillout to rock and anything else he fancies.
    • The number of pirate stations has doubled in 10 years, finding audiences for otherwise neglected music such as UK garage and drum 'n' bass, or using £400 homemade transmitters to spread anarchist or black-power propaganda.
    • His singles have skillfully mixed pop R & B with gentle hints of UK garage rhythms.
    • Just as Radio Caroline in the 1960s paved the way for Radio 1, the London pirates are turning garage and dance music into commercial hits.
    • Within UK garage there are different genres of music: sublow, grime, 4/4 and old school.
    • He is one of the pioneers of UK garage.
    • Consequently, the album sews punk, northern soul, hip hop, garage and electronica together and then pulls the whole lot inside out.
verb
[with object]
  • Put or keep (a motor vehicle) in a garage.

    把(汽车)开进(或停在)汽车库(或汽车修理厂)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • When I was in high school a friend drove a 1970 Impala that his gearhead dad had kept garaged for years.
    • In Class One, the Buggies up to 6000 cc, former winners Mark and Michael will again be at the start line in their MBR Jimco, which is normally garaged in Burrumbeet, Victoria.
    • It is only used as a fine-weather car and is garaged.
    • Additional security measures, such as garaging the car, can also bring down premiums.
    • Data showed that consumers wanted year-round performance in a sedan or coupe, rather than purchasing a sport utility while garaging their existing rear-wheel-drive luxury car.
    • As it isn't, it could be something unusual that occurs only when you garage the car.
    • During the trial period the test car was not garaged, but exposed to moderately cold Michigan weather and one light snowfall.
    • To stay a week in 1946 was five guineas all inclusive of breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner, plus one and six to garage the car.
    • The Ford is garaged every night and it is always in good running order.
    • Capable of garaging the team's four Land Rovers, its extensive rescue gear, the base now boasts a control room, offices, meeting room, kitchen, showers, and a place for relatives to wait pending news of a recovery operation.
    • The lion's share of theft takes place outside people's homes, so insurers may be reluctant to give cover to a bike that is not garaged at night.
    • I drive a Fiat Brava, garaged in one of the lowest risk areas in Britain.
    • Sadly it seems that unless your car is garaged overnight you may, in future, have to take a quick peek at the front of your motor each morning to check that all is well.
    • One day, he announced that he was buying a motorcycle combination, and that he would have to build a shed to garage it.
    • She let her employment contract run out, rented out her house and garaged the car.
    • The vehicles will actually be garaged at Bramley station but in terms of cover this standby point will provide the same as a small ambulance station, which is what we would class the old Horsforth station as.
    • We all have the right to pass along it unhindered and no one has the right to garage their car permanently on the highway.

Origin

Early 20th century: from French, from garer ‘to shelter’.

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