archive
verb/ˈɑːkaɪv/
/ˈɑːrkaɪv/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they archive | /ˈɑːkaɪv/ /ˈɑːrkaɪv/ |
| he / she / it archives | /ˈɑːkaɪvz/ /ˈɑːrkaɪvz/ |
| past simple archived | /ˈɑːkaɪvd/ /ˈɑːrkaɪvd/ |
| past participle archived | /ˈɑːkaɪvd/ /ˈɑːrkaɪvd/ |
| -ing form archiving | /ˈɑːkaɪvɪŋ/ /ˈɑːrkaɪvɪŋ/ |
- archive something to put or store a document or other material in an archiveTopics Historyc2
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- archive something (computing) to move information that is not often needed to a different disk, tape or other computer to store itTopics Computersc2
Word Originearly 17th cent. (in the sense ‘place where records are kept’): from French archives (plural), from Latin archiva, archia, from Greek arkheia ‘public records’, from arkhē ‘government’. The verb dates from the late 19th cent.
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