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Archived vs Archive - What's the difference?

archived | archive |

As verbs the difference between archived and archive

is that archived is past tense of archive while archive is to put into an archive.

As an adjective archived

is having been placed into an archive.

As a noun archive is

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.

archived

English

Verb

(head)
  • (archive)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • having been placed into an archive

    • archive

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • The material so kept, considered as a whole (compare archives).
    • His archive of Old High German language texts is the most extensive in Britain.

    Derived terms

    () * archival * archivist * national archive

    Verb

    (archiv)
  • To put into an archive.
    • I was planning on archiving the documents from 2001.