ARCHIVES Synonyms

• a complete list of things; usually arranged systematically

• a book or pamphlet containing an enumeration of things

• make an itemized list or catalog of; classify

• make a catalogue, compile a catalogue

• several things grouped together or considered as a whole

• a publication containing a variety of works

• request for a sum of money

• the act of gathering something together

• an organized body of related information

• the aggregate of past events

• a record or narrative description of past events

• the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings

• the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future

• all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge

• a detailed list of all the items in stock

• the merchandise that a shop has on hand

• (accounting) the value of a firm's current assets including raw materials and work in progress and finished goods

• a collection of resources

• making an itemized list of merchandise or supplies on hand

• make or include in an itemized record or report

• a room where books are kept

• a collection of literary documents or records kept for reference or borrowing

• a depository built to contain books and other materials for reading and study

• (computing) a collection of standard programs and subroutines that are stored and available for immediate use

• a building that houses a collection of books and other materials

• a segment of the trunk of a tree when stripped of branches

• the exponent required to produce a given number

• a written record of messages sent or received

• a written record of events on a voyage (of a ship or plane)

• measuring instrument that consists of a float that trails from a ship by a knotted line in order to measure the ship's speed through the water

• enter into a log, as on ships and planes

• cut lumber, as in woods and forests

• an official written record of names or events or transactions

• a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping

• a person to whom a secret is entrusted

• a burial vault (usually for some famous person)

• writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature)

• anything serving as a representation of a person's thinking by means of symbolic marks

• a written account of ownership or obligation

• (computer science) a computer file that contains text (and possibly formatting instructions) using seven-bit ASCII characters

• record in detail

• support or supply with references

• a set of related records (either written or electronic) kept together

• a line of persons or things ranged one behind the other

• office furniture consisting of a container for keeping papers in order

• a steel hand tool with small sharp teeth on some or all of its surfaces; used for smoothing wood or metal

• record in a public office or in a court of law

• smooth with a file

• proceed in line

• file a formal charge against

• place in a container for keeping records

• anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph) providing permanent evidence of or information about past events

• sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove

• the number of wins versus losses and ties a team has had

• the sum of recognized accomplishments

• a compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone

• an extreme attainment; the best (or worst) performance ever attested (as in a sport)

• a document that can serve as legal evidence of a transaction

• a list of crimes for which an accused person has been previously convicted

• make a record of; set down in permanent form

• register electronically

• indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments

• be aware of

• place in a container for keeping records

• put into an archive