library
/ˈlaɪˌbɹɛɹ.i/ noun A1- 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. · She went to exchange her books at her local library.
- Any institution that lends out its goods for use by the public or a community. · You can check out a bandsaw from the tool library.
- A collection of books or other forms of stored information.
- A collection of information or reference materials not in book form. · She has the most impressive record library I've ever seen.
- A room dedicated to storing books.
- A collection of software routines that provide functionality to be incorporated into or used by a computer program.
- A collection of DNA material from a single organism or relative to a single disease.
- The deck or draw pile.
Plural libraries
From the library
The next day a person with red hands and a blue polka-dot necktie, who called himself Kelly, called at Anthony Rockwall’s house, and was at once received in the library.
Richard began to walk up and down the library floor.
Old Anthony Rockwall, retired manufacturer and proprietor of Rockwall’s Eureka Soap, looked out the library window of his Fifth Avenue mansion and grinned.
And then Anthony Rockwall, who never cared for bells, went to the door of his library and shouted “Mike!” in the same voice that had once chipped off pieces of the welkin on the Kansas prairies.
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