Forage vs Storage - What's the difference?
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Fodder for animals, especially cattle and horses.
* 1819 , :
An act or instance of foraging.
* Shakespeare
* Marshall
* 1860 September, “A Chapter on Rats”, in , volume 56, number 3,
(obsolete) The demand for fodder etc by an army from the local population
To search for and gather food for animals, particularly cattle and horses.
* 1841 , , The Deerslayer , Chapter 8:
To rampage through, gathering and destroying as one goes.
* 1599 , , Henry V , Act 1, Scene 2:
To rummage.
* 1898 , , The Wrecker :
(uncountable) The act of storing goods; the state of being stored.
(usually, uncountable) An object or place in which something is stored.
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 1, author=Staff writers, title=Fires rage as business counts cost, work=
, passage=Melbourne's water storages plunged by 0.7 per cent in a week, down to 33.1 per cent capacity, as Victoria recorded its second-driest January on record.}}
* 2011 (2008), Wan Renpu, Petroleum Industry Press (translator), Advanced Well Completion Engineering ,
* 2012 , A. Grinham, B. Gibbes, D. Gale, M. Watkinson, M. Bartow (University of Queensland), Extreme rainfall and drinking water quality: a regional perspective'', C. A. Brebbia, ''Water Pollution XI ,
(usually, uncountable, computing) Any computer device, including such as a disk, on which data is stored for a longer term than memory.
* 2007 , Ramesh Bangia, Computer Fundamentals and Information Technology , Firewall Media, India,
(uncountable) The price charged for storing goods.
As nouns the difference between forage and storage
is that forage is fodder for animals, especially cattle and horses while storage is (uncountable) the act of storing goods; the state of being stored.As a verb forage
is to search for and gather food for animals, particularly cattle and horses.forage
English
Noun
(en noun)- “The hermit was apparently somewhat moved to compassion by the anxiety as well as address which the stranger displayed in tending his horse; for, muttering something about provender left for the keeper's palfrey, he dragged out of a recess a bundle of forage , which he spread before the knight's charger.
- (Dryden)
- He [the lion] from forage will incline to play.
- Mawhood completed his forage unmolested.
page 304:
- ‘My dears,’ he discourses to them — how he licks his gums, long toothless, as he speaks of his forages into the well-stored cellars:
Verb
(forag)- The message said that the party intended to hunt and forage through this region, for a month or two, afore it went back into the Canadas.
- And your great-uncle's, Edward the Black Prince, / Who on the French ground play'd a tragedy, / Making defeat on the full power of France, / Whiles his most mighty father on a hill / Stood smiling to behold his lion's whelp / Forage in blood of French nobility.
- Using the blankets for a basket, we sent up the books, instruments, and clothes to swell our growing midden on the deck; and then Nares, going on hands and knees, began to forage underneath the bed.
Derived terms
* foragerstorage
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(wikipedia storage)Noun
(en-noun)- There's a lot of storage space in the loft.
citation
page 115,
- Underground natural gas storages' are underground facilities for storing natural gas. At present, there are three types of underground natural gas '''storages''' worldwide, which include depleted oil and gas reservoir gas '''storages''', salt-cave gas '''storages''' and aquifer ' storages .
page 187,
- Low impact storages' included the northern and southern region?s Cooloolabin Dam, Baroon Pocket Dam, Leslie Harrison Dam, Hinze Dam and Little Nerang Dam. Highly impacted '''storages''' included central region?s Wivenhoe Dam, Somerset Dam and North Pine Dam (Fig. 2), where TSS concentrations in these central '''storages''' where(sic) more than double compared to northern and southern ' storages (Fig. 2A).
- I?d recommend backing up these files to storage before reinstalling the operating system.
page 43,
- Secondary storages are used to store system programs (viz; operating system, assembler, interpreter, compiler and so on), data files, software packages and so on.