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Registry vs Archive - What's the difference?

registry | archive |

As nouns the difference between registry and archive

is that registry is a building in which things are registered or where registers are kept while 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.

As a verb archive is

to put into an archive.

registry

English

Noun

(wikipedia registry) (registries)
  • A building in which things are registered or where registers are kept.
  • A record; an account; a register.
  • The act of registering; registration.
  • (computing) A database of configurations etc. maintained by the (Microsoft Windows) operating system.
  • * 1999 , John Papa, ?C. Caison, ?Matt Brown, Professional ADO RDS programming with ASP (page 252)
    • To unregister a DLL and remove the corresponding entries from the registry , add the /u switch to the command

    Related terms

    * register * registrar

    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.