Word Meanings - DEPOSITORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. A place where anything is deposited for sale or keeping; as, warehouse is a depository for goods; a clerk's office is a depository for records. 2. One with whom something is deposited; a depositary. I am the sole depository of my own secret,
Additional info about word: DEPOSITORY
1. A place where anything is deposited for sale or keeping; as, warehouse is a depository for goods; a clerk's office is a depository for records. 2. One with whom something is deposited; a depositary. I am the sole depository of my own secret, and it shall perish with me. Junius.
Related words: (words related to DEPOSITORY)
- DEPOSITOR
One who makes a deposit, especially of money in bank; -- the correlative of depository. - WHEREIN
1. In which; in which place, thing, time, respect, or the like; -- used relatively. Her clothes wherein she was clad. Chaucer. There are times wherein a man ought to be cautious as well as innocent. Swift. 2. In what; -- used interrogatively. Yet - WHEREVER
At or in whatever place; wheresoever. He can not but love virtue wherever it is. Atterbury. - PLACEMENT
1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place. - OFFICEHOLDER
An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman. - PLACENTARY
Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification. - PLACE-KICK
To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n. - SECRETE
To separate from the blood and elaborate by the process of secretion; to elaborate and emit as a secretion. See Secretion. Why one set of cells should secrete bile, another urea, and so on, we do not known. Carpenter. Syn. -- To conceal; hide. See - WHERETO
1. To which; -- used relatively. "Whereto we have already attained." Phil. iii. 16. Whereto all bonds do tie me day by day. Shak. 2. To what; to what end; -- used interrogatively. - WHEREAS
1. Considering that; it being the case that; since; -- used to introduce a preamble which is the basis of declarations, affirmations, commands, requests, or like, that follow. 2. When in fact; while on the contrary; the case being in truth that; - SECRETARY
secretari, Sp. & Pg. secretario, It. secretario, segretario) LL. secretarius, originally, a confidant, one intrusted with secrets, 1. One who keeps, or is intrusted with, secrets. 2. A person employed to write orders, letters, dispatches, public - WHERE'ER
Wherever; -- a contracted and poetical form. Cowper. - DEPOSITARY
One to whom goods are bailed, to be kept for the bailor without a recompense. Kent. (more info) 1. One with whom anything is lodged in the trust; one who receives a deposit; -- the correlative of depositor. I . . . made you my guardians, - SECRET
segreto), fr. L. secretus, p.p. of secrernere to put apart, to 1. Hidden; concealed; as, secret treasure; secret plans; a secret vow. Shak. The secret things belong unto the Lord our God; but those things which are revealed belong unto us. Deut. - DEPOSITION
The act of laying down one's testimony in writing; also, testimony laid or taken down in writting, under oath or affirmation, befor some competent officer, and in reply to interrogatories and cross-interrogatories. Syn. -- Deposition, Affidavit. - ANYTHINGARIAN
One who holds to no particular creed or dogma. - CLERKLINESS
Scholarship. - OFFICE WIRE
Copper wire with a strong but light insulation, used in wiring houses, etc. - WHEREINTO
1. Into which; -- used relatively. Where is that palace whereinto foul things Sometimes intrude not Shak. The brook, whereinto he loved to look. Emerson. 2. Into what; -- used interrogatively. - WHERESOE'ER
Wheresoever. "Wheresoe'er they rove." Milton. - UNDERSECRETARY
A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury. - POST OFFICE
See POST - WAREHOUSE
A storehouse for wares, or goods. Addison. - SAFE-KEEPING
The act of keeping or preserving in safety from injury or from escape; care; custody. - WHER; WHERE
Whether. Piers Plowman. Men must enquire , Wher she be wise or sober or dronkelewe. Chaucer. - OUTKEEPER
An attachment to a surveyor's compass for keeping tally in chaining. - REPLACEMENT
The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing. - EVERYWHERENESS
Ubiquity; omnipresence. Grew. - EVERYWHERE
In every place; in all places; hence, in every part; throughly; altogether. - INNKEEPER
An innholder. - BOOKING OFFICE
1. An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship. 2. An office where passage tickets are sold. - CROWN OFFICE
The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases. Burrill.