What does Library mean?
Definitions for Library
ˈlaɪˌbrɛr i, -brə ri, -bri; ˈlaɪ brɛr i; ˈlaɪ bə ri; ˈlaɪ bri; ˈlaɪ bɛr iLi·bra·ry
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word Library.
Princeton's WordNet
librarynoun
a room where books are kept
"they had brandy in the library"
librarynoun
a collection of literary documents or records kept for reference or borrowing
library, depository librarynoun
a depository built to contain books and other materials for reading and study
library, program library, subroutine librarynoun
(computing) a collection of standard programs and subroutines that are stored and available for immediate use
librarynoun
a building that houses a collection of books and other materials
Wiktionary
librarynoun
An institution which holds books and/or other forms of stored information for use by the public or qualified people. It is usual, but not a defining feature of a library, for it to be housed in rooms of a building, to lend items of its collection to members either with or without payment, and to provide various other services for its community of users.
librarynoun
A collection of books or other forms of stored information. An individual may refer to his collection of books and other items as his library.
librarynoun
An equivalent collection of analogous information in a non-printed form, e.g. record library
librarynoun
A collection of software subprograms that provides functionality, to be incorporated into or used by a computer program.
Etymology: librarie, from librarie, from librairie, from librarium, from librarius, from liber, probably derived from a Proto-Indo-European base *. Displaced native bochus (from bochus).
Webster Dictionary
Librarynoun
a considerable collection of books kept for use, and not as merchandise; as, a private library; a public library
Librarynoun
a building or apartment appropriated for holding such a collection of books
Etymology: [OE. librairie, F. librairie bookseller's shop, book trade, formerly, a library, fr. libraire bookseller, L. librarius, from liber book; cf. libraria bookseller's shop, librarium bookcase, It. libreria. See Libel.]
Freebase
Library
In computer science, a library is a collection of implementations of behavior, written in terms of a language, that has a well-defined interface by which the behavior is invoked. In addition, the behavior is provided for reuse by multiple independent programs. A program invokes the library-provided behavior via a mechanism of the language. For example, in a simple imperative language such as C, the behavior in a library is invoked by using C's normal function-call. What distinguishes the call as being to a library, versus being to another function in the same program, is the way that the code is organized in the system. Library code is organized in such a way that it can be used by multiple programs that have no connection to each other, while code that is part of a program is organized to only be used within that one program. This distinction can gain a hierarchical notion when a program grows large, such as a multi-million-line program. In that case, there may be internal libraries that are reused by independent sub-portions of the large program. The distinguishing feature is that a library is organized for the purposes of being reused by independent programs or sub-programs, and the user only needs to know the interface, and not the internal details of the library.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Library
lī′brar-i, n. a building or room containing a collection of books: a collection of books.—ns. Librā′rian, the keeper of a library; Librā′rianship. [L. librarium—liber, a book.]
The Roycroft Dictionary
library
A place where the dead lie.
The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz
LIBRARY
From Fr. _libre_, meaning free, and proper name ANDY. Something free from Andy Carnegie.
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Etymology and Origins
Library
From the Latin librarium, a bookcase, through liber, a book.
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Library' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1246
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Library' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1611
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Library' in Nouns Frequency: #428
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Library in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Library in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of Library in a Sentence
I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.
This situation is larger than a movie's release or the contents of someone's private emails, this is about the fact that criminals were able to hack in and steal what has now been identified as many times the volume of all of the printed material in the Library of Congress and threaten the livelihoods of thousands of Americans who work in the film and television industry, as well as the millions who simply choose to go to the movies.
It's a whole lot of fire trucks, a whole lot of heroes out here protecting President Reagan library, they're doing a heroic job.
Usama had good relations with my late father, thus we don’t support the American narrative, declaring him a terrorist, he did jihad, to implement Sharia around the world. So, for us he is an Islamist warrior. We title our library after his name with audacity.
Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. The pleasure they give is steady, unorgastic, reliable, deep and long-lasting. In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.
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Translations for Library
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- biblioteekAfrikaans
- مكتبةArabic
- kitabxanaAzerbaijani
- китапханаBashkir
- бібліятэ́каBelarusian
- библиоте́каBulgarian
- গ্রন্থাগারBengali
- bibliotecaCatalan, Valencian
- knihovna, fonotékaCzech
- llyfrgellWelsh
- bibliotekDanish
- Bibliothek, Archiv, BüchereiGerman
- βιβλιοθήκη, δισκοθήκηGreek
- biblioteko, libraroEsperanto
- biblioteca, libreríaSpanish
- raamatukoguEstonian
- کتابخانهPersian
- äänilevystö, kirjasto, ohjelmakirjasto, levystöFinnish
- bókasavnFaroese
- bibliothèqueFrench
- leabharlannIrish
- leabharlannScottish Gaelic
- bibliotecaGalician
- lioarlan, thie lioaragh, lioar-hashtManx
- ספריהHebrew
- पुस्तकालय, लाइब्रेरीHindi
- könyvtár, programkönyvtárHungarian
- գրադարանArmenian
- bibliotekoIdo
- bókahús, bókasafn, bókhlaðaIcelandic
- biblioteca, banca dati, libreria, archivioItalian
- 双書, 図書館, ライブラリーJapanese
- ბიბლიოთეკაGeorgian
- ប័ណ្ណាល័យKhmer
- ಗ್ರಂಥಾಲಯKannada
- 장서, 圖書館, 도서관, 라이브러리Korean
- lyvervaCornish
- librāriumLatin
- BibliothéikLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- ຫໍສະໝຸດLao
- bibliotekaLithuanian
- bibliotēkaLatvian
- whare pukapukaMāori
- библиоте́каMacedonian
- perpustakaan, kutubkhanah, siri, koleksiMalay
- စာကြည့်တိုက်Burmese
- bibliotheek, boekerij, boekenkastDutch
- bibliotekNorwegian
- naaltsoos bá hooghanNavajo, Navaho
- bibliotècaOccitan
- biblioteka, księgozbiór, biblioteczkaPolish
- biblioteca, arquivoPortuguese
- bibliotecaRomansh
- bibliotecăRomanian
- библиоте́каRussian
- knjížnica, biblioteka, библиотека, књи́жницаSerbo-Croatian
- පුස්තකාලයSinhala, Sinhalese
- knižnicaSlovak
- knjižnicaSlovene
- bibliotekëAlbanian
- bibliotekSwedish
- maktabaSwahili
- நூலகம்Tamil
- китобхонаTajik
- หอสมุด, ห้องสมุดThai
- aklatan, silid-aklatanTagalog
- laeborariTswana
- kütüphaneTurkish
- كۇتۇپخاناUyghur, Uighur
- бібліоте́каUkrainian
- لائبریریUrdu
- kutubxonaUzbek
- thư việnVietnamese
- bukemVolapük
- 圖書館Chinese
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