Definition of repository in English:

repository

nounPlural repositories rɪˈpɒzɪt(ə)rirəˈpɑzəˌtɔri

1A place where or receptacle in which things are or may be stored.
仓库，贮藏室
a deep repository for nuclear waste
一个很深的核废料贮藏室。
Example sentencesExamples
- The history in question is Russian, and the ark is St. Petersburg's Hermitage Museum, one of the world's greatest repositories of European art and civilization.
- Work is about to begin on one of the most important sections in the library - a new repository for rare books and manuscripts.
- Hitherto, libraries have been seen as mainly repositories of books and papers.
- Goeritz's museum was not a repository of objects, but a living entity in which every wall, window, hallway, and courtyard was used for various activities.
- But what does that mean for the actual history of film within the setting of the repositories of visual culture, the museums?
- Each of the 19 other repositories contains certain species of plants, while this one contains backup versions of them all and is the only one that stores animal germplasm.
- Over the years, the Craig's bought 180 Hibel paintings and would later help found the Hibel Museum in Florida in 1977, a permanent repository for her art.
- We believe that the gallery's main function should be as a repository of British art.
- Though a tentative gesture, Rovine's inclusion of the ceramic piece seems subtly to suggest that museums with African art must not remain repositories for objects from ‘extinct’ societies.
- Her next task was to find a museum repository for her late husband's private art collection, a visual document of his enthusiasms.
- Philosopher Hilde Hein has described a quandary museums face in identifying their chief function: as repositories of valuable objects, or instead, as places to produce interesting experiences.
- Soon after the liberation of the Philippines, American special agents began to discover a few of the hidden gold repositories.
- The Imprimerie Nationale, one of the greatest repositories of typographic material in the world, spans four centuries.
- How this orientation necessarily conflicts with the basic mandate of the museum to be a repository for its permanent collections is the realization that haunts these writings.
- I often say to students, the skip behind an art college is the repository of the ugliest objects on earth.
- Subsequently, the building was occupied by Communist authorities, used as a repository by Prague Museum and taken over by Marxist-Leninists.
- The idea was dropped in rehearsal - but I imagine that Stepanov notations of La Bayadere are still in the Harvard library, now the repository of all the Sergeyev manuscripts.
- This exhibition features 22 major works acquired by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art directly from the artist in 1999, making the museum the largest repository of his works.
- More than just a repository for books, the Adam Library served as a store for Charles's collections of smaller antiquities, curiosities, natural history, geology and ethnography.
Synonyms
receptacle, vessel, holder, canister, drum, box, case
1. 1.1 A place where something, especially a natural resource, is found in significant quantities.
  自然资源丰富的地区；物资丰富地区
  accessible repositories of water
  可用的丰富水资源区。
  Example sentencesExamples
  At particular risk are aquifers, underground repositories of water that are tapped by wells for agricultural irrigation and drinking water.
2. 1.2Computing A central location in which data is stored and managed.
  the metadata will be aggregated in a repository
  Example sentencesExamples
  Cache stores frequently used data in a repository close to the chip's execution units so that it can be processed faster than data stored in memory.
  This has just underscored the fact that multi-gigabyte data repositories can't move around anywhere near as easily as their users can.
  This repository allowed locally connected computers to retrieve updates significantly faster while offering greater package management.
  The goal is to provide authorized network users with transparent access to on-line information repositories.
  There is an internet repository for your courses, should people feel the need to download them.
  Uptime is crucial when running any type of server whether it is a file repository, HTTP web server, or a simple SOHO server.
3. 1.3 A person or thing regarded as a store of information or in which a particular quality may be found.
  喻为知识宝库的人（或物）
  his mind was a rich repository of the past
  他的大脑是存有大量历史信息的宝库。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Thus, the prudent practice, or praxis, of memory produced ethical behavior; by using the memory as an ethical repository and guide, an individual would be equipped to act prudently and ethically.
  Smiths comes to grips with the complicated issues of the South being the repository of the African American past.
  Despite this, we trust both media to be the repositories of our cultures, to store the minutiae, the details and experiences that define our milieu.
  Other scholars of Philippine culture have also recognized the need to study songs and poetry as repositories of history.
  They argued that the royal privy council was the sole repository of good government.
  The Internet has the potential to be the greatest library in the history of mankind - a repository of memory, thought, culture, and scholarship; a record of what it means to be human.
  Instead, we should see architectural residue from the past as a repository of vast physical, human, and cultural energy.
  It is the repository of ‘reasons’ of which Owen speaks in the above quoted passage.
  Bronze Head is a photographic repository of sensuality, and its symmetric composition, its square format, its perfect body, and its tantalizing play of tone invoke the desire and longing of artist and viewer alike.
  The ocean has long been our repository for ideas of the monstrous and the unknowable.
  Through the fate of the one truly literate character in the novel, Thady's son Jason, the novel implies that writing offers no safe repository of title.
  Forrest saw African American oral traditions as rich repositories of ritual and value, sources of meaning in the face of suffering and tragedy.
  Benjamin wanted to draw attention to the vast repository of ‘involuntary memory’ hidden in the unconscious, rarely accessible and often traumatic in nature.
  He closes with a disquisition on the meaning of Europe, examining the dark elements of racism and extreme nationalism but remaining optimistic and with a reflection on the EU which seems to be the repository of many of his hopes.
  He's the repository of our common history, and by that right, grand patron of the Bicentennial.
  The electorate's hope that his Cabinet would prove a genuine repository of positive change was the one slim reed on which the Party's recent political legitimacy had rested.
  As repositories of human feeling and professional intelligence, actors become crucial when a play's development is down to the short strokes.
  To our immediate point, the city is America's apogee, nadir and living museum, a repository of art and entertainment for all brows: high, medium, low and no.
  Blake saw the artist as a repository of the ‘prophetic genius’ which gave access to truth.
  Will books continue to be our main repository of culture and history, or will they vanish with developing technologies, replaced by virtual pages?
  Synonyms
  store, storing place, storehouse, depository
  reservoir, bank, cache, treasury, treasure house, treasure trove, fund, mine, archive, repertory
  warehouse, depot, storeroom, safe
  container, receptacle

Origin

Late 15th century: from Old French repositoire or Latin repositorium, from reposit- 'placed back', from the verb reponere (see repose²).

Definition of repository in US English:

repository

nounrəˈpɑzəˌtɔrirəˈpäzəˌtôrē

1A place, building, or receptacle where things are or may be stored.
仓库，贮藏室
a deep repository for nuclear waste
一个很深的核废料贮藏室。
Example sentencesExamples
- Subsequently, the building was occupied by Communist authorities, used as a repository by Prague Museum and taken over by Marxist-Leninists.
- How this orientation necessarily conflicts with the basic mandate of the museum to be a repository for its permanent collections is the realization that haunts these writings.
- This exhibition features 22 major works acquired by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art directly from the artist in 1999, making the museum the largest repository of his works.
- Her next task was to find a museum repository for her late husband's private art collection, a visual document of his enthusiasms.
- Goeritz's museum was not a repository of objects, but a living entity in which every wall, window, hallway, and courtyard was used for various activities.
- More than just a repository for books, the Adam Library served as a store for Charles's collections of smaller antiquities, curiosities, natural history, geology and ethnography.
- The idea was dropped in rehearsal - but I imagine that Stepanov notations of La Bayadere are still in the Harvard library, now the repository of all the Sergeyev manuscripts.
- The history in question is Russian, and the ark is St. Petersburg's Hermitage Museum, one of the world's greatest repositories of European art and civilization.
- The Imprimerie Nationale, one of the greatest repositories of typographic material in the world, spans four centuries.
- Each of the 19 other repositories contains certain species of plants, while this one contains backup versions of them all and is the only one that stores animal germplasm.
- We believe that the gallery's main function should be as a repository of British art.
- Hitherto, libraries have been seen as mainly repositories of books and papers.
- Work is about to begin on one of the most important sections in the library - a new repository for rare books and manuscripts.
- Philosopher Hilde Hein has described a quandary museums face in identifying their chief function: as repositories of valuable objects, or instead, as places to produce interesting experiences.
- Though a tentative gesture, Rovine's inclusion of the ceramic piece seems subtly to suggest that museums with African art must not remain repositories for objects from ‘extinct’ societies.
- Over the years, the Craig's bought 180 Hibel paintings and would later help found the Hibel Museum in Florida in 1977, a permanent repository for her art.
- I often say to students, the skip behind an art college is the repository of the ugliest objects on earth.
- But what does that mean for the actual history of film within the setting of the repositories of visual culture, the museums?
- Soon after the liberation of the Philippines, American special agents began to discover a few of the hidden gold repositories.
Synonyms
receptacle, vessel, holder, canister, drum, box, case
1. 1.1 A place in which something, especially a natural resource, has accumulated or where it is found in significant quantities.
  自然资源丰富的地区；物资丰富地区
  accessible repositories of water
  可用的丰富水资源区。
  Example sentencesExamples
  At particular risk are aquifers, underground repositories of water that are tapped by wells for agricultural irrigation and drinking water.
2. 1.2Computing A central location in which data is stored and managed.
  the metadata will be aggregated in a repository
  Example sentencesExamples
  There is an internet repository for your courses, should people feel the need to download them.
  Uptime is crucial when running any type of server whether it is a file repository, HTTP web server, or a simple SOHO server.
  This repository allowed locally connected computers to retrieve updates significantly faster while offering greater package management.
  The goal is to provide authorized network users with transparent access to on-line information repositories.
  Cache stores frequently used data in a repository close to the chip's execution units so that it can be processed faster than data stored in memory.
  This has just underscored the fact that multi-gigabyte data repositories can't move around anywhere near as easily as their users can.
3. 1.3 A person or thing regarded as a store of information or in which something abstract is held to exist or be found.
  喻为知识宝库的人（或物）
  his mind was a rich repository of the past
  他的大脑是存有大量历史信息的宝库。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Through the fate of the one truly literate character in the novel, Thady's son Jason, the novel implies that writing offers no safe repository of title.
  As repositories of human feeling and professional intelligence, actors become crucial when a play's development is down to the short strokes.
  To our immediate point, the city is America's apogee, nadir and living museum, a repository of art and entertainment for all brows: high, medium, low and no.
  The ocean has long been our repository for ideas of the monstrous and the unknowable.
  Will books continue to be our main repository of culture and history, or will they vanish with developing technologies, replaced by virtual pages?
  It is the repository of ‘reasons’ of which Owen speaks in the above quoted passage.
  The electorate's hope that his Cabinet would prove a genuine repository of positive change was the one slim reed on which the Party's recent political legitimacy had rested.
  Bronze Head is a photographic repository of sensuality, and its symmetric composition, its square format, its perfect body, and its tantalizing play of tone invoke the desire and longing of artist and viewer alike.
  Other scholars of Philippine culture have also recognized the need to study songs and poetry as repositories of history.
  Blake saw the artist as a repository of the ‘prophetic genius’ which gave access to truth.
  He closes with a disquisition on the meaning of Europe, examining the dark elements of racism and extreme nationalism but remaining optimistic and with a reflection on the EU which seems to be the repository of many of his hopes.
  The Internet has the potential to be the greatest library in the history of mankind - a repository of memory, thought, culture, and scholarship; a record of what it means to be human.
  Forrest saw African American oral traditions as rich repositories of ritual and value, sources of meaning in the face of suffering and tragedy.
  Smiths comes to grips with the complicated issues of the South being the repository of the African American past.
  Instead, we should see architectural residue from the past as a repository of vast physical, human, and cultural energy.
  Despite this, we trust both media to be the repositories of our cultures, to store the minutiae, the details and experiences that define our milieu.
  He's the repository of our common history, and by that right, grand patron of the Bicentennial.
  Thus, the prudent practice, or praxis, of memory produced ethical behavior; by using the memory as an ethical repository and guide, an individual would be equipped to act prudently and ethically.
  Benjamin wanted to draw attention to the vast repository of ‘involuntary memory’ hidden in the unconscious, rarely accessible and often traumatic in nature.
  They argued that the royal privy council was the sole repository of good government.
  Synonyms
  store, storing place, storehouse, depository

Origin

Late 15th century: from Old French repositoire or Latin repositorium, from reposit- ‘placed back’, from the verb reponere (see repose).

词汇	repository
释义	Definition of repository in English: repository nounPlural repositories rɪˈpɒzɪt(ə)rirəˈpɑzəˌtɔri 1A place where or receptacle in which things are or may be stored. 仓库，贮藏室 a deep repository for nuclear waste 一个很深的核废料贮藏室。 Example sentencesExamples The history in question is Russian, and the ark is St. Petersburg's Hermitage Museum, one of the world's greatest repositories of European art and civilization. Work is about to begin on one of the most important sections in the library - a new repository for rare books and manuscripts. Hitherto, libraries have been seen as mainly repositories of books and papers. Goeritz's museum was not a repository of objects, but a living entity in which every wall, window, hallway, and courtyard was used for various activities. But what does that mean for the actual history of film within the setting of the repositories of visual culture, the museums? Each of the 19 other repositories contains certain species of plants, while this one contains backup versions of them all and is the only one that stores animal germplasm. Over the years, the Craig's bought 180 Hibel paintings and would later help found the Hibel Museum in Florida in 1977, a permanent repository for her art. We believe that the gallery's main function should be as a repository of British art. Though a tentative gesture, Rovine's inclusion of the ceramic piece seems subtly to suggest that museums with African art must not remain repositories for objects from ‘extinct’ societies. Her next task was to find a museum repository for her late husband's private art collection, a visual document of his enthusiasms. Philosopher Hilde Hein has described a quandary museums face in identifying their chief function: as repositories of valuable objects, or instead, as places to produce interesting experiences. Soon after the liberation of the Philippines, American special agents began to discover a few of the hidden gold repositories. The Imprimerie Nationale, one of the greatest repositories of typographic material in the world, spans four centuries. How this orientation necessarily conflicts with the basic mandate of the museum to be a repository for its permanent collections is the realization that haunts these writings. I often say to students, the skip behind an art college is the repository of the ugliest objects on earth. Subsequently, the building was occupied by Communist authorities, used as a repository by Prague Museum and taken over by Marxist-Leninists. The idea was dropped in rehearsal - but I imagine that Stepanov notations of La Bayadere are still in the Harvard library, now the repository of all the Sergeyev manuscripts. This exhibition features 22 major works acquired by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art directly from the artist in 1999, making the museum the largest repository of his works. More than just a repository for books, the Adam Library served as a store for Charles's collections of smaller antiquities, curiosities, natural history, geology and ethnography. Synonyms receptacle, vessel, holder, canister, drum, box, case 1.1 A place where something, especially a natural resource, is found in significant quantities. 自然资源丰富的地区；物资丰富地区 accessible repositories of water 可用的丰富水资源区。 Example sentencesExamples At particular risk are aquifers, underground repositories of water that are tapped by wells for agricultural irrigation and drinking water. 1.2Computing A central location in which data is stored and managed. the metadata will be aggregated in a repository Example sentencesExamples Cache stores frequently used data in a repository close to the chip's execution units so that it can be processed faster than data stored in memory. This has just underscored the fact that multi-gigabyte data repositories can't move around anywhere near as easily as their users can. This repository allowed locally connected computers to retrieve updates significantly faster while offering greater package management. The goal is to provide authorized network users with transparent access to on-line information repositories. There is an internet repository for your courses, should people feel the need to download them. Uptime is crucial when running any type of server whether it is a file repository, HTTP web server, or a simple SOHO server. 1.3 A person or thing regarded as a store of information or in which a particular quality may be found. 喻为知识宝库的人（或物） his mind was a rich repository of the past 他的大脑是存有大量历史信息的宝库。 Example sentencesExamples Thus, the prudent practice, or praxis, of memory produced ethical behavior; by using the memory as an ethical repository and guide, an individual would be equipped to act prudently and ethically. Smiths comes to grips with the complicated issues of the South being the repository of the African American past. Despite this, we trust both media to be the repositories of our cultures, to store the minutiae, the details and experiences that define our milieu. Other scholars of Philippine culture have also recognized the need to study songs and poetry as repositories of history. They argued that the royal privy council was the sole repository of good government. The Internet has the potential to be the greatest library in the history of mankind - a repository of memory, thought, culture, and scholarship; a record of what it means to be human. Instead, we should see architectural residue from the past as a repository of vast physical, human, and cultural energy. It is the repository of ‘reasons’ of which Owen speaks in the above quoted passage. Bronze Head is a photographic repository of sensuality, and its symmetric composition, its square format, its perfect body, and its tantalizing play of tone invoke the desire and longing of artist and viewer alike. The ocean has long been our repository for ideas of the monstrous and the unknowable. Through the fate of the one truly literate character in the novel, Thady's son Jason, the novel implies that writing offers no safe repository of title. Forrest saw African American oral traditions as rich repositories of ritual and value, sources of meaning in the face of suffering and tragedy. Benjamin wanted to draw attention to the vast repository of ‘involuntary memory’ hidden in the unconscious, rarely accessible and often traumatic in nature. He closes with a disquisition on the meaning of Europe, examining the dark elements of racism and extreme nationalism but remaining optimistic and with a reflection on the EU which seems to be the repository of many of his hopes. He's the repository of our common history, and by that right, grand patron of the Bicentennial. The electorate's hope that his Cabinet would prove a genuine repository of positive change was the one slim reed on which the Party's recent political legitimacy had rested. As repositories of human feeling and professional intelligence, actors become crucial when a play's development is down to the short strokes. To our immediate point, the city is America's apogee, nadir and living museum, a repository of art and entertainment for all brows: high, medium, low and no. Blake saw the artist as a repository of the ‘prophetic genius’ which gave access to truth. Will books continue to be our main repository of culture and history, or will they vanish with developing technologies, replaced by virtual pages? Synonyms store, storing place, storehouse, depository reservoir, bank, cache, treasury, treasure house, treasure trove, fund, mine, archive, repertory warehouse, depot, storeroom, safe container, receptacle Origin Late 15th century: from Old French repositoire or Latin repositorium, from reposit- 'placed back', from the verb reponere (see repose²). Definition of repository in US English: repository nounrəˈpɑzəˌtɔrirəˈpäzəˌtôrē 1A place, building, or receptacle where things are or may be stored. 仓库，贮藏室 a deep repository for nuclear waste 一个很深的核废料贮藏室。 Example sentencesExamples Subsequently, the building was occupied by Communist authorities, used as a repository by Prague Museum and taken over by Marxist-Leninists. How this orientation necessarily conflicts with the basic mandate of the museum to be a repository for its permanent collections is the realization that haunts these writings. This exhibition features 22 major works acquired by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art directly from the artist in 1999, making the museum the largest repository of his works. Her next task was to find a museum repository for her late husband's private art collection, a visual document of his enthusiasms. Goeritz's museum was not a repository of objects, but a living entity in which every wall, window, hallway, and courtyard was used for various activities. More than just a repository for books, the Adam Library served as a store for Charles's collections of smaller antiquities, curiosities, natural history, geology and ethnography. The idea was dropped in rehearsal - but I imagine that Stepanov notations of La Bayadere are still in the Harvard library, now the repository of all the Sergeyev manuscripts. The history in question is Russian, and the ark is St. Petersburg's Hermitage Museum, one of the world's greatest repositories of European art and civilization. The Imprimerie Nationale, one of the greatest repositories of typographic material in the world, spans four centuries. Each of the 19 other repositories contains certain species of plants, while this one contains backup versions of them all and is the only one that stores animal germplasm. We believe that the gallery's main function should be as a repository of British art. Hitherto, libraries have been seen as mainly repositories of books and papers. Work is about to begin on one of the most important sections in the library - a new repository for rare books and manuscripts. Philosopher Hilde Hein has described a quandary museums face in identifying their chief function: as repositories of valuable objects, or instead, as places to produce interesting experiences. Though a tentative gesture, Rovine's inclusion of the ceramic piece seems subtly to suggest that museums with African art must not remain repositories for objects from ‘extinct’ societies. Over the years, the Craig's bought 180 Hibel paintings and would later help found the Hibel Museum in Florida in 1977, a permanent repository for her art. I often say to students, the skip behind an art college is the repository of the ugliest objects on earth. But what does that mean for the actual history of film within the setting of the repositories of visual culture, the museums? Soon after the liberation of the Philippines, American special agents began to discover a few of the hidden gold repositories. Synonyms receptacle, vessel, holder, canister, drum, box, case 1.1 A place in which something, especially a natural resource, has accumulated or where it is found in significant quantities. 自然资源丰富的地区；物资丰富地区 accessible repositories of water 可用的丰富水资源区。 Example sentencesExamples At particular risk are aquifers, underground repositories of water that are tapped by wells for agricultural irrigation and drinking water. 1.2Computing A central location in which data is stored and managed. the metadata will be aggregated in a repository Example sentencesExamples There is an internet repository for your courses, should people feel the need to download them. Uptime is crucial when running any type of server whether it is a file repository, HTTP web server, or a simple SOHO server. This repository allowed locally connected computers to retrieve updates significantly faster while offering greater package management. The goal is to provide authorized network users with transparent access to on-line information repositories. Cache stores frequently used data in a repository close to the chip's execution units so that it can be processed faster than data stored in memory. This has just underscored the fact that multi-gigabyte data repositories can't move around anywhere near as easily as their users can. 1.3 A person or thing regarded as a store of information or in which something abstract is held to exist or be found. 喻为知识宝库的人（或物） his mind was a rich repository of the past 他的大脑是存有大量历史信息的宝库。 Example sentencesExamples Through the fate of the one truly literate character in the novel, Thady's son Jason, the novel implies that writing offers no safe repository of title. As repositories of human feeling and professional intelligence, actors become crucial when a play's development is down to the short strokes. To our immediate point, the city is America's apogee, nadir and living museum, a repository of art and entertainment for all brows: high, medium, low and no. The ocean has long been our repository for ideas of the monstrous and the unknowable. Will books continue to be our main repository of culture and history, or will they vanish with developing technologies, replaced by virtual pages? It is the repository of ‘reasons’ of which Owen speaks in the above quoted passage. The electorate's hope that his Cabinet would prove a genuine repository of positive change was the one slim reed on which the Party's recent political legitimacy had rested. Bronze Head is a photographic repository of sensuality, and its symmetric composition, its square format, its perfect body, and its tantalizing play of tone invoke the desire and longing of artist and viewer alike. Other scholars of Philippine culture have also recognized the need to study songs and poetry as repositories of history. Blake saw the artist as a repository of the ‘prophetic genius’ which gave access to truth. He closes with a disquisition on the meaning of Europe, examining the dark elements of racism and extreme nationalism but remaining optimistic and with a reflection on the EU which seems to be the repository of many of his hopes. The Internet has the potential to be the greatest library in the history of mankind - a repository of memory, thought, culture, and scholarship; a record of what it means to be human. Forrest saw African American oral traditions as rich repositories of ritual and value, sources of meaning in the face of suffering and tragedy. Smiths comes to grips with the complicated issues of the South being the repository of the African American past. Instead, we should see architectural residue from the past as a repository of vast physical, human, and cultural energy. Despite this, we trust both media to be the repositories of our cultures, to store the minutiae, the details and experiences that define our milieu. He's the repository of our common history, and by that right, grand patron of the Bicentennial. Thus, the prudent practice, or praxis, of memory produced ethical behavior; by using the memory as an ethical repository and guide, an individual would be equipped to act prudently and ethically. Benjamin wanted to draw attention to the vast repository of ‘involuntary memory’ hidden in the unconscious, rarely accessible and often traumatic in nature. They argued that the royal privy council was the sole repository of good government. Synonyms store, storing place, storehouse, depository Origin Late 15th century: from Old French repositoire or Latin repositorium, from reposit- ‘placed back’, from the verb reponere (see repose).
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