noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a storage area (= a place for keeping things that are not being used )
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There’s a temporary storage area where you can put those boxes.
a storage box (= for storing things in )
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Plastic storage boxes are useful for putting things in the attic.
a storage container (= for storing things in )
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There are a lot of old toys in storage containers in the attic.
a storage cupboard British English (= for storing things )
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There's a storage cupboard under the stairs.
a storage device (= a computer device for storing information electronically )
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You may need an additional storage device if you have a lot of data.
cold storage
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He aims to please even if it means putting his principles in cold storage.
storage capacity (= how much information a computer disk, CD-Rom etc can hold )
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The storage capacity is about 250 megabytes.
storage depot
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a fuel storage depot
storage heater
storage tank
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Somehow the chemical got from a storage tank into water supplies.
storage units
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storage units
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
cold
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Much depends on whether Mayor Brown decides to take his campaign promise out of cold storage .
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As might be expected this is accelerated by heat, making cold storage essential.
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I can hear them rumble into cold storage down the coal chute.
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Only 3 to 4in is required between the shower and the base of cold water storage tank.
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Like the political career of the man who envisioned it, the satellite may face a prolonged period in cold storage .
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Remember that cold water storage tanks, header tanks, and all exposed pipework must be insulated to prevent freeze-ups.
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Dry hops and finings are added to cask conditioned beer. Cold storage and filtration for keg and bottled beers.
large
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So the slurry goes into large storage tanks or lagoons.
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The districts, whose three large storage tanks hold 51 million gallons, used about 23 million gallons a day last May.
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Rain falling on to the theatre nearby was collected in a channel circling the orchestra to fill a large rock-cut storage cistern.
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All of these devices offer large amounts of storage on relatively low-cost cartridges or disks.
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Windows will be larger , overhead storage compartments will be enclosed and the toilet compartments will have natural light and changing tables.
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Electronic filing would require very large storage capacities for maps and technical drawings. 4.
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Cheaper memory, faster processors, and larger storage devices, come on to the market with increasing rapidity.
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Oil and gas systems are similar to each other, but oil requires a large storage tank and a reliable delivery service.
main
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If the entire index is in main storage , the correct cylinder to search is located in well under a millisecond.
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But when we opened the door to the main storage room, we saw that everything there too had been smashed.
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The main storage medium inside willow seeds, ants and all other living cells is not electronic but chemical.
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These generally refer to finding a self-indexing function for tables in main storage .
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Ideally, the indexes should be held in main storage .
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The work areas required in main storage are relatively small as only one record is being examined at any one time.
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Now a process's occupation of main storage and transput devices changes relatively slowly.
temporary
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A temporary storage depot would have to be established by 1995 and a second would have to be available around 2005.
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The shipping companies deal with temporary storage of parts; only what is needed that day appears at the plant.
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Windows 95 handles temporary storage differently, but still uses a swap file.
■ NOUN
area
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The home record storage area holds the address of the first synonym.
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Police reported they had seized appliances, clothing, video and audio tapes from 30 warehouses and storage areas .
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Manure seepage from storage areas is polluting waterways and evaporating ammonia is contributing to acid rain.
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Another was a storage area for listening equipment.
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New storage areas have been created by raising the Planning floor to mezzanine level.
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Those specialists were left functionally aligned, and remained in the remote storage area .
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The lower floors will house administrative offices and storage areas .
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Books and posters, shirts and sweatshirts and pounds of petrified wood spilled from the storage areas .
capacity
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This will store more than 50 times as much data as the floppy disks with the biggest storage capacity !
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A non-elastic limitation is the available disk storage capacity .
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What is clear is that the costs of memory and storage devices are decreasing, whilst storage capacity is increasing enormously.
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Woodacon Oils continued to be a steady performer, increasing its product storage capacity .
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As far as storage capacity is concerned, the situation is equally dire.
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The machine had a massive storage capacity which could nevertheless fit into a handbag.
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Instead, manufacturers are encouraging us to buy faster machines with more storage capacity and better displays.
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Woodacon Oils continued to perform steadily, increasing product storage capacity .
computer
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Thus we have a processor register called the accumulator, the same length as a word of computer storage .
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That deal, which closed in February, combined the two companies into the leading independent maker of computer storage products.
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Where possible, information was coded to cut down on computer storage and processing costs.
depot
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Fats are passed to fat storage depots and sugars to the liver and muscles.
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A temporary storage depot would have to be established by 1995 and a second would have to be available around 2005.
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Also, the group's 100 storage depots have enough space to house 70 Royal Albert Halls.
device
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Connected to the computer is some form of storage device which enables information to be accessed and updated quickly.
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Both services allow users to send their data over the Internet to company storage devices .
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What is clear is that the costs of memory and storage devices are decreasing, whilst storage capacity is increasing enormously.
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Sales of large-scale data storage devices also increased strongly, while earnings from computer maintenance services hardly changed.
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The compression will let digital audio-visual services be carried by terrestrial and satellite channels, telecommunications networks or digital storage devices .
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We have seen how staggeringly impressive it is as an accurate data storage device .
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Cheaper memory, faster processors, and larger storage devices , come on to the market with increasing rapidity.
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Hardware used to capture video images, process them, and send the digitised images to storage devices .
disk
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Expansion in the number of users and disk storage supported are on there way.
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The other kind is disk storage , commonly on a hard drive or floppy disk.
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A non-elastic limitation is the available disk storage capacity.
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This will slow it down, because random-access memory is much faster than disk storage .
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When it comes to disk storage capacity spreadsheets don't normally take much space.
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The disk storage available is defined by the System Supervisor for each lexicographer.
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Both instruments have automatic setting of wavelength, bandwidth and gas flows, video displays, disk storage and full alpha-numeric keyboard.
facility
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Limited cooking and food storage facilities are, however, available in the utility rooms on each floor.
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Existing nuclear storage facilities are either full to overflowing or close to it.
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To conserve your time, your energy, and gasoline, shop as infrequently as your storage facilities permit. 3.
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This has several advantages: fragile items will be spared the cumulative damage resulting from repeated handling and removal from storage facilities .
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Old charts were automatically retired to the storage facilities out here.
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We are currently examining a possible replacement for the storage facility .
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The Department of Energy completed the storage facility in 1988 after two decades of planning.
food
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Limited cooking and food storage facilities are, however, available in the utility rooms on each floor.
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Plastic Lunch boxes, food storage containers, etc, may melt if stacked close to the heating elements.
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Frozen food storage cabinets are designed to accept pre-frozen food and hold it at the proper storage temperature - 18°C to -22°C.
heater
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He is always complaining about having to flog electric storage heaters anyway.
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Check whether an off-peak electric storage heater or a gas fire might be better choice.
information
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Multimedia is now being used in training, point-of-information systems, communications and information storage and retrieval.
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The rest was for information storage .
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This, of course, is where the opportunity for information storage lies.
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An information storage system for efficient storage of large volumes of information.
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As the overall design progresses the information storage system becomes increasingly important.
management
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UniTree is a distributed client/server program that provides automatic and transparent file and storage management for networked, heterogeneous computing environments.
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Unicenter is designed for automated production control, security, data center administration, resource accounting and storage management .
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An OpenView storage management system is still under development for the second half of the year.
media
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It is not biased towards the way that the data may be accessed from storage media .
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Second, it provides a choice of storage media for BLOBs which may have advantages both of cost and convenience.
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Many early computers were serial, since they were built round serial storage media such as delay lines.
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We have already touched upon the significance of compact discs and their increasingly standard use as storage media in multimedia systems.
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Discs used as storage media for textual data as distinct from programs provide one example.
medium
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We can see, then, how computers help to develop and extend information, as well as merely acting as the storage medium .
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The main storage medium inside willow seeds, ants and all other living cells is not electronic but chemical.
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The basic requirement for an advanced information technology is some kind of storage medium with a large number of memory locations.
problem
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Specialised equipment and materials required for visually handicapped pupils can pose a storage problem .
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For display through a television, one image needs about 800 kilobytes, making the storage problem even more acute.
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Manipulating this much information puts a considerable strain on the processor's memory and gives you a storage problem to boot!
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While this has greatly reduced the archival storage problem it has probably made the access problem worse.
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National librarian, Brynley Roberts, says in his annual report this is already causing storage problems .
requirement
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By representing words in the definitions as integers, storage requirements decrease dramatically and efficient sorting routines become easily applicable.
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Longer grams have greater storage requirements too, so there is a trade-off between performance and storage.
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The dictionary method gives much greater error correction performance, with greater storage requirements and computational cost.
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Firstly the storage requirement is significantly reduced since integers may be stored in a much smaller space than strings.
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Some information has necessarily been removed from the dictionary to cut down on storage requirements .
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This rule tends to reduce the number of nodes in the tree at the expense of storage requirements .
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The use of a morphologically-based lexicon can lead to a large reduction in the storage requirements for the lexical information.
room
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Behind the door is the storage room in which the chilling took place.
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But when we opened the door to the main storage room , we saw that everything there too had been smashed.
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With no museum space, the discoveries are left in the storage rooms .
site
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Minatom remains evasive on the question of how the new storage sites will be financed.
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Its lift on, lift-off operations there will now also be spread across two container terminals and an inland storage site .
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It is now also possible for companies to investigate potential nuclear waste storage sites without the consent of local or state authorities.
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This is preferable to stockpiling of leaking barrels at storage sites .
space
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The service you get is fairly standard, with no apparent limits imposed on storage space or attachment size.
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Her theory is that a proliferation of culinary gadgets is putting pressure on kitchen storage space .
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This will mean that the data requires more direct access storage space than a sequential file.
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The place metamorphosed into storage space .
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If many keys do not have records associated with them, then there is wastage in storage space .
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Here, a single 90-minute video consuming over 100 gigabytes of storage space must be distributed to a large number of consumers.
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An attempt was made to take advantage of the morphological structure of words to cut down on storage space and search time.
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None the less Ares believes that for users with even a moderate number of typefaces in use, FontChameleon will save storage space .
system
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The method is only available for use with virtual storage systems , and offers access to records in three ways.
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Data General reported strong sales of its CLARiiON data storage systems .
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An unvented hot water storage system has many advantages over the normal vented system.
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On-line backup offers several advantages over removable storage systems .
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Another major area of risk with an offline storage system is encountered during the actual transfer.
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Ever the aesthete, he admits that the container looks hideous but he likes the elegance of a dedicated storage system .
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The console is not intended as a pattern storage system .
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The hydrogen gas would be collected within the galls and piped to a central storage system .
tank
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He was welding on top of a 900 ton oil storage tank which exploded, hurling him 120 feet into a wall.
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The districts, whose three large storage tanks hold 51 million gallons, used about 23 million gallons a day last May.
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As with the service propulsion system, the propellants were force-fed to the engine by pressurized helium from a storage tank .
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The puff signals nearby storage tanks of calcium.
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And the office building was next to the storage tank .
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The gasoline additive had leaked from underground storage tanks at a Navy gas station.
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That was before we installed the eight thousand gallon water storage tank , which Health and Safety thought could drown a child.
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It put both the ammonia storage tank and the transmission line underground.
unit
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Sinclair Research has promised to produce a small magnetic storage unit for its Spectrum computer.
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During the summer off-peak months a proportion of gas is fed into storage units above and below ground.
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As well as fitted storage units , there is a wide range of freestanding furniture, modular units and shelving on the market.
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It had a storage unit on the bottom.
water
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An unvented hot water storage system has many advantages over the normal vented system.
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Verse 24: the pit, here mercifully dry, was intended for water storage .
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That was before we installed the eight thousand gallon water storage tank, which Health and Safety thought could drown a child.
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Only 3 to 4in is required between the shower and the base of cold water storage tank.
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Reckon each bath at around 60 litres to give you an idea of the amount of hot water storage that is needed.
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Remember that cold water storage tanks, header tanks, and all exposed pipework must be insulated to prevent freeze-ups.
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Consider an engineer running a water storage and distribution company.
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Why are the U-shaped glaciated valleys suitable for water storage and for the building of dams?
■ VERB
build
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In 25 years an extension will be built , extending the storage capacity until the year 2050.
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Many early computers were serial, since they were built round serial storage media such as delay lines.
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In 1962, the total amount of federally built reservoir storage in the nation was somewhere around 300 million acre-feet.
hold
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Ideally, the indexes should be held in main storage .
keep
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The room where paintings were kept in storage was no exception.
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Personnel files are kept in secure storage , with strict conditions attached to access.
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About a hundred works will travel from Paris, many of which are normally kept in storage for conservation reasons.
provide
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Or you could line the walls with bookshelves from waist-level, with cupboards underneath to provide storage and serving space.
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These frequently stand vacant but provide an anchorage and storage space.
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The scheme involves dredging the main channel of the Medway estuary to provide a storage base for import-export cargoes.
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The next step in the design was to provide adequate storage of water to meet the demand.
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Second, it provides a choice of storage media for BLOBs which may have advantages both of cost and convenience.
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Use the glazed cupboards to display attractive china and to provide storage space for attractively packaged dry goods.
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It also provides local storage facilities, and interfaces for peripherals.
put
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Her theory is that a proliferation of culinary gadgets is putting pressure on kitchen storage space.
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We put everything in storage until I moved nine months later.
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He will not put his furniture in storage .
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Existing missiles would be put in storage .
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It put both the ammonia storage tank and the transmission line underground.
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Others will be put into storage .
require
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In this situation, the video input requires no longterm storage .
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It also requires a terminal storage facility.
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This will mean that the data requires more direct access storage space than a sequential file.
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A Senate committee approved legislation last week to require storage of the spent fuel in an interim facility in Nevada.
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Use of n-grams requires little storage or processing but is less efficient at discriminating between acceptable and unacceptable letter strings.
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Dictionary look-up methods give impressive error correction but require much greater storage and computation.
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This would require a huge corpus, would be extremely difficult to estimate and would require too much storage .
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We require much better storage facilities for exhibition material.
use
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Many of Whessoe's installations from the early years of this century still survive today and are used primarily for storage .
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It would be lost in obscurity, perhaps still being used as unofficial storage space by its neighboring furniture gallery.
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Microcomputers on the other hand generally use local storage on floppy disks.
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Under most floors were dirt crawl spaces that could be used for storage .
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A chemical sprout inhibitor should be used for long term storage .
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Motion picture video is seldom used due to storage and performance limitations.
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Cold-chain monitors were used during shipment and storage .
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I then went on to use breastmilk storage bags to minimise confusion.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
put sth in cold storage
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Atkinson further recommended that universities should not hold large stocks in remote storage .
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But with digital instruments and digital storage , the data could be transferred through phone lines from the source to the computer.
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Furthermore, some media such as magnetic tapes are subject to storage degradation if they are not regularly used.
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He will not put his furniture in storage .
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It also ensures that the waste that is ultimately disposed of is in a good form for long-term storage .
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The company also devised a system of storage bags and labels to secure even the smallest items.
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Use of n-grams requires little storage or processing but is less efficient at discriminating between acceptable and unacceptable letter strings.