ARCHIVE

Archive

An archives is an accumulation of historical records, or the physical place they are located. Archives contain primary source documents that have accumulated over the course of an individual or organization's lifetime, and are kept to show the function of that person or organization. Professional archivists and historians generally understand archives to be records that have been naturally and necessarily generated as a product of regular legal, commercial, administrative or social activities. They have been metaphorically defined as "the secretions of an organism", and are distinguished from documents that have been consciously written or created to ...

The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Archive
and as such is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

archive

Noun

  1. A place for storing earlier, and often historical, material. An archive usually contains documents (letters, records, newspapers, etc.) or other types of media kept for historical interest.
  2. The material so kept, considered as a whole (compare archives).
    His archive of Old High German language texts is the most extensive in Britain.

Verb

  1. To put into an archive.
    I was planning on archiving the documents from 2001.


The above text is a snippet from Wiktionary: archive
and as such is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

Need help with a clue?
Try your search in the crossword dictionary!