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views updated May 23 2018li·brar·y / ˈlīˌbrerē; -brərē/ •
n. (pl. -brar·ies) a building or room containing collections of books, periodicals, and sometimes films and recorded music for people to read, borrow, or refer to: a school library [as adj.] a library book. ∎ a collection of books and periodicals held in such a building or room: the Institute houses an outstanding library of 35,000 volumes on the fine arts. ∎ a collection of films, recorded music, genetic material, etc., organized systematically and kept for research or borrowing: a record library. ∎ a series of books, recordings, etc., issued by the same company and similar in appearance. ∎ a room in a private house where books are kept. ∎ (also software library) Comput. a collection of programs and software packages made generally available, often loaded and stored on disk for immediate use.
The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
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views updated May 11 2018 A Dictionary of Computing JOHN DAINTITH
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views updated May 23 2018library XIV. — (O)F.
librairie (now only ‘bookshop’) — Rom. *
librārīa, alt. of L.
librāria bookseller's shop, sb. use of
librārius pert. to books, f.
liber,
libr— book; see
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librarian †scribe XVII; keeper of a library XVIII. f. L.
librārius +
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology T. F. HOAD
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views updated May 14 2018library (gene library) A random collection of cloned (see
CLONE)
DNA fragments in a number of
vectors that ideally includes all the genetic information of that species.
A Dictionary of Zoology MICHAEL ALLABY
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views updated Jun 11 2018library (gene library) A random collection of cloned (see
CLONE)
DNA fragments in a number of vectors that ideally includes all the genetic information of that species.
A Dictionary of Plant Sciences MICHAEL ALLABY
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views updated May 21 2018Library
a collection of books, 1540; therefore a collection of knowledge.
Examples: library of God’s law, 1703; of opinions, 1570; of reason, 1485; of my understanding, 1549.
Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms
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views updated May 18 2018library(gene library) A random collection of cloned (see
clone) DNA fragments in a number of vectors, which ideally includes all the genetic information of that species.
A Dictionary of Ecology MICHAEL ALLABY
