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Archive vs Documents - What's the difference?

archive | documents |

As verbs the difference between archive and documents

is that archive is while documents is (document).

As a noun documents is

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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.

    documents

    English

    Noun

    (head)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (document)
    • He documents everything he does, He can always prove it was done correctly.
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