What is Storage?
{{Wiktionary|storage}} '''Storage''' means the ''act of keeping things'' and the ''place'' where you keep them. That may be: * [[Furniture]] designed to hold small objects: ** [[Bookcase]], [[Cabinet (furniture)]], [[Chest (furniture)]], [[Cupboard]], [[Desk]], [[Sideboard]] (hutch), [[Refrigerator]], etc. * Small, mobile [[container]]s designed to hold food or other goods: ** [[box]]es, [[bottle]]s, and [[can]]s ** [[Food storage]], containers such as Tupperware and Rubbermaid brands ** [[Container (cargo)]], a shipping container, storage for cargo transport ** [[Magazine (artillery)]], an item or place within which [[ammunition]] is stored * Larger containers typically designed to store special kinds of objects or substances: ** [[Reservoir (water)]], an artificial lake ** [[Storage tank]] ** [[Dry cask storage]], storing high-level radioactive waste * Special rooms, or parts of buildings, designed for storage: ** [[Storage room]], [[Closet]], [[Cellar]], [[Attic]] * Special buildings, or collections of buildings, designed to hold large objects, or a great many objects of a particular type: ** [[Shed]], [[Distribution center|Depot]], [[Garage (house)]] ** [[Warehouse]], a commercial building for storage of goods ** [[Self storage]], public storage facility ** [[Ammunition dump]], a military storage facility for live ammunition and explosives * Devices designed to store and release electrical charge or energy: ** [[Capacitor]], stores electric charge ** [[battery (electricity)|battery]], a store of electricity * Devices designed for information storage and retrieval: ** [[storage medium]] ** [[Computer storage]], [[Hard drive]], [[Computer memory]] ** ''See also'' [[Store and forward]], relaying information through one or more intermediate stations which temporarily store the information * Collections of stored information: ** [[Archive]], or archives – a collection of records ** [[Book]]s store the wisdom of the ages ** [[Memory]] stores the record of experience ==Related pages== *[[Store]] *Hoarding