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Forage vs Storage - What's the difference?

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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)
  • Fodder for animals, especially cattle and horses.
  • * 1819 , :
  • “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)
  • An act or instance of foraging.
  • * Shakespeare
  • He [the lion] from forage will incline to play.
  • * Marshall
  • Mawhood completed his forage unmolested.
  • * 1860 September, “A Chapter on Rats”, in , volume 56, number 3, 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:
  • (obsolete) The demand for fodder etc by an army from the local population
  • Verb

    (forag)
  • To search for and gather food for animals, particularly cattle and horses.
  • * 1841 , , The Deerslayer , Chapter 8:
  • 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.
  • To rampage through, gathering and destroying as one goes.
  • * 1599 , , Henry V , Act 1, Scene 2:
  • 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.
  • To rummage.
  • * 1898 , , The Wrecker :
  • 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

    * forager

    storage

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (uncountable) The act of storing goods; the state of being stored.
  • There's a lot of storage space in the loft.
  • (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= citation
  • , 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 , 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 .
  • * 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 , 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).
  • (usually, uncountable, computing) Any computer device, including such as a disk, on which data is stored for a longer term than memory.
  • I?d recommend backing up these files to storage before reinstalling the operating system.
  • * 2007 , Ramesh Bangia, Computer Fundamentals and Information Technology , Firewall Media, India, 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.
  • (uncountable) The price charged for storing goods.
  • Usage notes

    The plural form appears to be more common in Australian English.

    Derived terms

    * cloud storage * digital storage

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