archive

archives, fonds d'archives

Ensemble de documents, d’images ou d’autres traces conservés pour pouvoir les utiliser plus tard.

En anglais simple : A collection of documents, pictures, or other records kept so people can use them in the future.

• We searched the newspaper's archive.
• Her letters are part of a digital archive.
• The archive contains records dating back two hundred years.

Comment l'utiliser : an archive of something (The museum has an archive of local photographs.)

Synonymes : collection, records

Expressions courantes : digital archive, photo archive, an archive of something, search the archive

archives, centre d'archives

Lieu où l’on conserve en sécurité des documents anciens et d’autres traces, souvent pour leur importance historique.

En anglais simple : A place where old documents and other records are kept safely, often because they are historically important.

• The archive closes at five.
• We visited the city archive to study old maps.
• The documents were moved to a secure archive.

Synonymes : repository

Expressions courantes : national archive, visit the archive, in the archive, city archive

archiver

Conserver en sécurité des documents, des fichiers ou d’autres traces pour pouvoir les utiliser plus tard.

En anglais simple : To store documents, files, or other records safely so they can be used later.

• We archive all our photographs.
• She archived the emails after the project ended.
• These records must be archived for future research.

Synonymes : store, preserve, file

Expressions courantes : archive old files, archive your emails, archive something digitally, archive the records