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LIBRARY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A depository built to contain books and other materials for reading and study
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("library" is a kind of...):
deposit; depositary; depository; repository (a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping)
Meronyms (parts of "library"):
carrel; carrell; cubicle; stall (small individual study area in a library)
reading room (a room set aside for reading)
stacks (storage space in a library consisting of an extensive arrangement of bookshelves where most of the books are stored)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "library"):
athenaeum; atheneum (a place where reading materials are available)
circulating library; lending library (library that provides books for use outside the building)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A room where books are kept
Example:
they had brandy in the library
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("library" is a kind of...):
room (an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling)
Holonyms ("library" is a part of...):
house (a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A building that houses a collection of books and other materials
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("library" is a kind of...):
building; edifice (a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place)
Instance hyponyms:
National Library of Medicine; U.S. National Library of Medicine; United States National Library of Medicine (the world's largest medical library)
Sense 4
Meaning:
(computing) a collection of standard programs and subroutines that are stored and available for immediate use
Synonyms:
library; program library; subroutine library
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("library" is a kind of...):
accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)
Meronyms (parts of "library"):
library program (a program in a program library)
cataloged procedure (a set of control statements that have been placed in a library and can be retrieved by name)
library routine (a debugged routine that is maintained in a program library)
Domain category:
computer programing; computer programming; programing; programming (creating a sequence of instructions to enable the computer to do something)
Sense 5
Meaning:
A collection of literary documents or records kept for reference or borrowing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("library" is a kind of...):
accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "library"):
bibliotheca (a collection of books)
public library (a nonprofit library maintained for public use)
rental collection (a collection of books that can be rented by readers in return for a small daily fee)
Context examples:
An administrative activity defined at the global library level that represents the communication of a message to a recipient.
(Defined Notification, NCI Thesaurus)
In a few days Mr. Bingley returned Mr. Bennet's visit, and sat about ten minutes with him in his library.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
As you are aware, such devices are common in old libraries.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
‘Brunton, the butler, was in the library.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A relationship between a composite activity and an option that can satisfy it, i.e. choice and option activities, where all these activities are part of a global library of activities.
(Defined Option Relationship, NCI Thesaurus)
He is as happy as possible by himself; with his farm, and his sheep, and his library, and all the parish to manage; and he is extremely fond of his brother's children.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Our own library is too well known to me, to be resorted to for any thing beyond mere amusement.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
A library of items for patient self-reporting of symptoms and side effects associated with cancer treatment trials.
(Patient Reported Outcomes Version of CTCAE, NCI Thesaurus)
You may remember that a history of all the voyages made for purposes of discovery composed the whole of our good Uncle Thomas’ library.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
You will have the same walks to frequent, the same library to choose from, the same people to look at, the same horse to ride.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
