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
