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Accomplish vs Archive - What's the difference?

accomplish | archive |

As verbs the difference between accomplish and archive

is that accomplish is to finish successfully while archive is to put into an archive.

As a noun archive is

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.

accomplish

English

(Webster 1913)

Verb

  • To finish successfully.
  • To complete, as time or distance.
  • * That He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. - Daniel 9:2
  • * He had accomplished half a league or more. -
  • To bring to an issue of full success; to effect; to perform; to execute fully; to fulfill; as, to accomplish a design, an object, a promise.
  • * This that is written must yet be accomplished in me - Luke 22:37
  • (archaic) To equip or furnish thoroughly; hence, to complete in acquirements; to render accomplished; to polish.
  • * The armorers accomplishing the knights - Shakespeare, Henry V, IV-chorus
  • * It [the moon] is fully accomplished for all those ends to which Providence did appoint it. -
  • * These qualities . . . go to accomplish a perfect woman. -
  • (obsolete) To gain; to obtain
  • :(Shakespeare)
  • Synonyms

    * do, perform, fulfill, realize, effect, effectuate, complete, consummate, execute, achieve, perfect, equip, furnish, carry out

    archive

    English

    Noun

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

    Derived terms

    () * archival * archivist * national archive

    Verb

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