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Archives vs Repository - What's the difference?

archives | repository |

As nouns the difference between archives and repository

is that archives is plural of lang=en while repository is a location for storage, often for safety or preservation.

As a verb archives

is third-person singular of archive.

archives

English

Noun

(head)
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (archive)
  • Wikipedia archives some biographies.
    ----

    repository

    Noun

    (repositories)
  • 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
  • Synonyms

    * (location for storage) depository, archive