Library vs Package - What's the difference?
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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
Something which is packed, a parcel, a box, an envelope.
Something which consists of various components, such as a piece of computer software.
(label) A piece of software which has been prepared in such a way that it can be installed with a package manager.
The act of packing something.
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Something resembling a package.
A package holiday.
A football formation.
(euphemistic, vulgar) The male genitalia.
A charge made for packing goods.
To pack or bundle something.
To travel on a package holiday.
As nouns the difference between library and package
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 package is something which is packed, a parcel, a box, an envelope.As a verb package is
to pack or bundle something.library
English
(wikipedia library)Noun
(libraries)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 librarySee also
* bookshop, bookstore, bookhouse False cognates and false friends in English 1000 English basic wordspackage
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(wikipedia package)Noun
- Did you test the software package to ensure completeness?
- the "dime" defensive package
- For third and short, they're going to bring in their jumbo package.
