What's the difference between archive and repository?

Archive


Definition:

  • (n.) The place in which public records or historic documents are kept.
  • (n.) Public records or documents preserved as evidence of facts; as, the archives of a country or family.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
  • (2) This study shows that the sensitivity and specificity of in situ hybridisation for the detection of EBV genomes in AIDS related lymphomas approaches that of Southern blotting, even when using routinely processed archival, paraffin wax embedded material.
  • (3) Various forms of inactive data storage and archiving in machine-readable form are available to address this dilemma, yet these solutions can create even more difficult problems.
  • (4) Illustration by Andrzej Krause Photograph: Guardian The Foreign Office attributed the forgotten boxes to "an earlier misunderstanding about contents" and stated that there needed to be an "improvement in archive management".
  • (5) KNOWLEDGE ARCHIVE "Having watched 42-year-old Kevin Poole turn out for Derby recently, I wondered 'have any grandfathers ever played league football?'
  • (6) A comprehensive quality assurance (QA) program should be implemented for all teleradiology and picture archival and communications (PACS) systems.
  • (7) And so, through Trove’s archived newspapers, I’ve found Harry – the mission boy who saw the Japanese at Caledon Bay imprison women, girls and old men in the trepang smokehouse, before raping the women in the bush.
  • (8) An anonymous source, “John Doe”, gave the archive to the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung .
  • (9) The targeted building housed document archives and a library regularly used by Gaddafi, according to officials.
  • (10) Taking advantage of the availability of an archive of consanguineous marriages that gives accurate estimates of consanguinity in Italy, it has been possible to calculate the increase of first- and second-cousin marriages among 624 couples of cystic fibrosis (CF) parents over the general population.
  • (11) Official papers released by the National Archives show that the "wets" – notably Jim Prior, Peter Walker, Ian Gilmour, Mark Carlisle, Lord Soames and Francis Pym – were able to demonstrate that a majority of the cabinet rejected as unnecessarily harsh Sir Geoffrey Howe's demands for further public spending cuts and tax cuts.
  • (12) The DMM acts as an image file server and an image archive device.
  • (13) Samples of fresh and archival thyroid tissue, stained with propidium iodide, were analysed on the flow cytometer and the peak channel number noted.
  • (14) But with the privilege of hindsight – plus a very long afternoon wading through the responses to the green paper – handily archived on the iLegal site – it probably wasn't the time to give ministers the benefit of the doubt, no matter how slender and qualified that benefit was.
  • (15) In his article, Adams also hits out at the controversial history archive in which ex-IRA members name Adams as the commander who gave the order for the widow to be killed and buried at a secret location.
  • (16) A successful PACS (Picture Archiving and Communications System) implementation requires an eclectic integration of a number of key technologies.
  • (17) A number of studies have suggested that HIV infection can be detected in a variety of routinely fixed archival tissues using antibodies to various viral proteins.
  • (18) Twitter also lets you download an archive of your data, mostly made up of your Tweets.
  • (19) Nuclear deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) ploidy studies of paraffin-embedded archival tumor specimen blocks were performed by flow cytometry on extracted nuclei from 101 surgically resected hepatic metastases from colorectal cancer.
  • (20) In addition, we examined 31 archival in situ carcinomas, 15 snap-frozen invasive ductal carcinomas, primary cell cultures from three benign breast tissue samples, and breast carcinoma cell lines MDA-MB-231 and MDA-MB-468.

Repository


Definition:

  • (n.) A place where things are or may be reposited, or laid up, for safety or preservation; a depository.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Two patients who developed marked intraocular pressure elevations after repository corticosteroid injection did not manifest a positive response on subsequent topical corticosteroid testing.
  • (2) Three important elements of the pesticide quality assurance program in the Health Protection Branch of Canada are described--the sampling protocol, the repository of pesticide standards, and the check sample program of the Federal Interdepartmental Committee on Pesticides.
  • (3) These data are in agreement with the predictions derived from a mechanism of phosphorylation by which [gamma-32P]GTP does not act as a phosphoryl donor for the protein kinase activity but, instead, only as a repository of high group transfer potential phosphoryl groups used to make [gamma-32P]ATP, from contaminating ADP, by means of the nucleoside diphosphate kinase activity.
  • (4) The model has been used to evaluate certain assumptions underlying the environmental standard for high-level waste repositories recently issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
  • (5) In the glycerol model of this syndrome, we demonstrate that the kidney responds to such inordinate amounts of heme proteins by inducing the heme-degradative enzyme, heme oxygenase, as well as increasing the synthesis of ferritin, the major cellular repository for iron.
  • (6) It is a finely-tuned sequence of level changes and alluring glimpses, more familiar to the world of shopping malls and airport terminals than a repository of knowledge.
  • (7) Stored plasma from 3 Victorian dairy herds with a history of JD, sera from specimens submitted from animals showing clinical signs of JD and sera from the US National Repository for Paratuberculosis Specimens were used to determine the sensitivity of each test.
  • (8) However, one must consider the attitudes that prevailed at the time, the high rate of fetal and infant mortality, and the blossoming role of museums as repositories of knowledge.
  • (9) This paper discusses the value of an International Repository of Chromosomal Abnormalities and Variants as a means of communication and case finding.
  • (10) Dawn Powell: A Time to Be Born (1942) Joseph Heller: Catch-22 (1961) Kurt Vonnegut: Breakfast of Champions (1973) David Foster Wallace: Infinite Jest (1996) The American comedy, generally speaking, is a scatological thing, or a repository of racial prejudice or gender stereotypes.
  • (11) The U.S. Department of Energy has selected three sites, from five nominated, to characterize for a nuclear repository to permanently dispose of nuclear waste.
  • (12) The mast cell must also be considered since it is the repository for mediators which cause increased vascular permeability and has the potential for eliciting, and possibly sustaining, some of the white cell mediated events associated with the inflammatory process.
  • (13) An example of applying this monitoring technique at a radwaste repository is given.
  • (14) The National Neurological Research Bank (Los Angeles), the Brain Tissue Bank (Belmont, Mass), and the Department of Neuropathology at Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore) have agreed to serve as repositories for tissues.
  • (15) Professor Gordon MacKerron, an energy expert at Sussex University and a former chairman of the CoRWM, said building two repositories could have major political advantages because the government could face opposition from local communities to hosting an unlimited amount of waste from new power stations rather than a finite amount of legacy waste from existing sites.
  • (16) Unlike most previous sites censored by the state, Github is not just a news site or a social network: it is crucial to the working lives of a significant proportion of the programming community, as well as being a host for a number of important repositories required to make the internet work.
  • (17) These GCT granules probably are the repositories of nerve growth factor, which is particularly abundant in Praomys.
  • (18) This cramped, multi-storey shop is packed with them, like some great gaming repository.
  • (19) In this application of obtaining a diverse sample from the 230,000 compounds in the National Cancer Institute Repository, we cluster to select compounds that are different from the rest, to optimize screening for new leads.
  • (20) In addition, these healers were repositories of many potentially harmful beliefs, e.g., that having sex with a virgin will rid a man of AIDS.