Library
['laɪbrərɪ;-brɪ] or ['laɪbrɛri]
Definition
(noun.) a depository built to contain books and other materials for reading and study.
(noun.) a room where books are kept; 'they had brandy in the library'.
(noun.) a building that houses a collection of books and other materials.
(noun.) (computing) a collection of standard programs and subroutines that are stored and available for immediate use.
(noun.) a collection of literary documents or records kept for reference or borrowing.
Checked by Casey--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A considerable collection of books kept for use, and not as merchandise; as, a private library; a public library.
(n.) A building or apartment appropriated for holding such a collection of books.
Editor: Nita
Definition
n. a building or room containing a collection of books: a collection of books.—ns. Librā′rian the keeper of a library; Librā′rianship.
Typed by Damian
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you are in a library, denotes that you will grow discontented with your environments and associations and seek companionship in study and the exploration of ancient customs. To find yourself in a library for other purpose than study, foretells that your conduct will deceive your friends, and where you would have them believe that you had literary aspirations, you will find illicit assignations.
Typist: Sanford
Unserious Contents or Definition
From Fr. libre, meaning free, and proper name ANDY,. Something free from Andy Carnegie."
Edited by Andrea
Examples
- Laura, will you come into the library? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The next morning, as she was going downstairs, she was met by her father, who came out of his library with a letter in his hand. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Mr. Franklin's letter I sent to him in the library--into which refuge his driftings had now taken him for the second time. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Mr. Casaubon, who had risen early complaining of palpitation, was in the library giving audience to his curate Mr. Tucker. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- This was a combination of state library and state publishing upon a scale hitherto unheard of. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Why didn't you go into the library? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Perhaps Mr. Tucker was gone and Mr. Casaubon was alone in the library. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- With a sense of relief he entered the library and flung himself down in his armchair. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- My quarto edition of the same, 'Arts et Metiers', I give to the Library Company of Philadelphia. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- There was a library in Coketown, to which general access was easy. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- I shall be glad to have the library to myself as soon as may be. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- The main building was divided into five chief divisions--the library, office, machine shops, experimental and chemical rooms, and stock-room. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In this same library we saw some drawings by Michael Angelo (these Italians call him Mickel Angelo,) and Leonardo da Vinci. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- What a delightful library you have at Pemberley, Mr. Darcy! Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Beautiful records of such beginnings of science were among the neglected treasures of the rich men's libraries throughout the imperial domains. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- My sisters used to subscribe to little circulating libraries in the neighbourhood, for the common novels of the day; but I always hated these. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- In the time of Julius C?sar the larger of the famous libraries of Alexandria, containing, i t is computed, some 490,000 rolls, caught fire from ships burning in the harbor, and perished. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- In 389 A.D ne of the libraries at Alexandria was destroyed and its books were pillaged by t he Christians. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- As you are aware, such devices are common in old libraries. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I visited the libraries of Rome. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- They have to use those in the public libraries or in private collections. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Readers with full stomachs, who complain of being surfeited and overloaded with the story-telling trash of our circulating libraries? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Printing is perhaps the greatest of all the arts of civilization, and the libraries and newspapers of the Nineteenth Century attest its value. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The temples were not only observatories and libraries and clinics, they were museums and treasure-houses. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Checker: Rupert