What is the difference between archive and repository?
archive | repository | Synonyms |
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).
To put into an archive.
a location for storage, often for safety or preservation
# (computing) a storage location for files, such as downloadable software packages, or files in a source control system
a burial vault
a person to whom a secret is entrusted
Repository is a synonym of archive.
As nouns the difference between archive and repository
is that 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 while repository is a location for storage, often for safety or preservation.As a verb archive
is to put into an archive.archive
English
Noun
(en noun)- His archive of Old High German language texts is the most extensive in Britain.
Derived terms
() * archival * archivist * national archiveVerb
(archiv)- I was planning on archiving the documents from 2001.