library

noun libraries

1. An institution which holds books and/or other forms of media for use by the public or qualified people often lending them out, as well as providing various other services for its users. She went to exchange her books at her local library.

   Similar: bookhouse, bibliotheca, bibliotheque

2. broadly Any institution that lends out its goods for use by the public or a community. You can check out a bandsaw from the tool library.
3. A collection of books or other forms of stored information. A small library of books has been written on the subject.
4. A collection of information or reference materials not in book form. She has the most impressive record library I've ever seen.
5. A room dedicated to storing books.
6. A collection of software routines that provide functionality to be incorporated into or used by a computer program. A static library is much like any other library in that it contains a bunch of code for your application to use.

   Similar: library file

7. A collection of DNA material from a single organism or relative to a single disease.
8. The deck or draw pile. At the conclusion of every duel, each player must show the remaining cards in his or her hand to the opponent to verify that no Restricted List duplicate cards appear there (e.g., to prove that a second Time Walk wasn't drawn from his library).