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library🔊

An institution which holds books and/or other forms of media for use by the public or qualified people often lending them out, as well as providing various other services for its users.

📑 Synonyms: bookhouse
💬 Quotations
Libraries have been burnt and whole religious movements wiped out because their belief and myths have been considered to be of dubious origin by the upholders of orthodoxy[.]
When all else fails, give up and go to the library.

(by extension) Any institution that lends out its goods for use by the public or a community.

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.

A room dedicated to storing books.

(computer programming) A collection of software routines that provide functionality to be incorporated into or used by a computer program.

(genetics) A collection of DNA material from a single organism or relative to a single disease.

(card games, Magic: The Gathering) The deck or draw pile.

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