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Library vs Folder - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between library and folder

is that library is an institution which holds books and/or other forms of stored information for use by the public or qualified people. It is usual, but not a defining feature of a library, for it to be housed in rooms of a building, to lend items of its collection to members either with or without payment, and to provide various other services for its community of users while folder is an organizer that papers are kept in, usually with an index tab, to be stored as a single unit in a filing cabinet.

library

English

(wikipedia library)

Noun

(libraries)
  • An institution which holds books and/or other forms of stored information for use by the public or qualified people. It is usual, but not a defining feature of a library, for it to be housed in rooms of a building, to lend items of its collection to members either with or without payment, and to provide various other services for its community of users.
  • A collection of books or other forms of stored information.
  • An equivalent collection of analogous information in a non-printed form, e.g. record library
  • (computer science) A collection of software subprograms that provides functionality, to be incorporated into or used by a computer program.
  • (card games) The deck or draw pile
  • A collection of DNA material from a single organism or relative to a single disease

    • Derived terms

    * Borgesian library * interlibrary * librarian * librarial * library and information science * library assistant * library catalog * library hand * library science * mobile library * record library * public library * school library

    See also

    * bookshop, bookstore, bookhouse False cognates and false friends in English 1000 English basic words

    folder

    English

    (wikipedia folder)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An organizer that papers are kept in, usually with an index tab, to be stored as a single unit in a filing cabinet.
    • I keep all my schoolwork in a yellow folder .
  • (computing) A virtual container in a computer's file system, in which files and other folders may be stored. The files and subfolders in a folder are usually related.
    • My essays are in the folder named "Essays"
  • A machine or person who folds things.

    • Synonyms

    * directory (3)

    Anagrams

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