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Archive vs. Achieve

Archive and Achieve Definitions

Archive

Often archives A place or collection containing records, documents, or other materials of historical interest
Old land deeds in the municipal archives.

Achieve

To gain with effort or despite difficulty; reach
Achieve fame as a singer.
Achieve a record speed.

Archive

A long-term storage area, often on magnetic tape, for backup copies of files or for files that are no longer in active use.

Achieve

To succeed in accomplishing; bring about
Achieve a task.
Achieve an improvement in foreign relations.

Archive

A file containing one or more files in compressed format for more efficient storage and transfer.

Achieve

To accomplish something successfully; perform at a standard or above standard level
Skills needed to achieve in school.
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Archive

A repository for stored memories or information
The archive of the mind.

Achieve

(intransitive) To succeed in something, now especially in academic performance.

Archive

To place or store in an archive.

Achieve

(transitive) To carry out successfully; to accomplish.
You can achieve anything if you put your mind to it.
Hannah achieved her lifelong dream of winning a medal at the Olympics.

Archive

(Computers) To copy or compress (a file) into an archive.

Achieve

To conclude, finish, especially successfully.
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Archive

A place for storing earlier, and often historical, material. An archive usually contains documents (letters, records, newspapers, etc.) or other types of media kept for historical interest.

Achieve

(transitive) To obtain, or gain (a desired result, objective etc.), as the result of exertion; to succeed in gaining; to win.

Archive

The material so kept, considered as a whole (compare archives).
His archive of Old High German texts is the most extensive in Britain.

Achieve

To conclude, to turn out.

Archive

(ecology) Natural deposits of material, regarded as a record of environmental changes over time.
Soil archive
Peat archive

Achieve

To obtain (a material thing).
Show all the spoils by valiant kings achieved.
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Archive

(transitive) To put (something) into an archive.
I was planning on archiving the documents from 2001.

Achieve

To carry on to a final close; to bring out into a perfected state; to accomplish; to perform; - as, to achieve a feat, an exploit, an enterprise.
Supposing faculties and powers to be the same, far more may be achieved in any line by the aid of a capital, invigorating motive than without it.

Archive

The place in which public records or historic documents are kept.
Our words . . . . become records in God's court, and are laid up in his archives as witnesses.

Achieve

To obtain, or gain, as the result of exertion; to succeed in gaining; to win.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness.
Thou hast achieved our liberty.
Show all the spoils by valiant kings achieved.
He hath achieved a maidThat paragons description.

Archive

Public records or documents preserved as evidence of facts; as, the archives of a country or family.
Some rotten archive, rummaged out of some seldom explored press.

Achieve

To finish; to kill.

Archive

A depository containing historical records and documents

Achieve

To gain with effort;
She achieved her goal despite setbacks

Archive

Put into an archive

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