database

• data base, data-base (dated)

data +‎ base

• (UK, Ireland, New Zealand, General Australian, US) IPA^(key): /ˈdeɪtəˌbeɪs/

  • Audio (Southern England)

    (file)

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdætəˌbeɪs/
• (Ireland) IPA^(key): /ˈdæːtəˌbeːs/
• (UK, New Zealand, General Australian, General South African) IPA^(key): /ˈdɑːtəˌbeɪs/

database (plural databases)

1. (general) A collection of (usually) organized information in a regular structure, usually but not necessarily in a machine-readable format accessible by a computer.

   I have a database of all my contacts in my personal organizer.

2. (computing) A set of tables and other objects (queries, reports, forms) in the form of a structured data set.

   The "books" database will have three tables, and the "customers" database will have two tables.

3. (computing, loosely, metonymically) A software program (application) for storing, retrieving and manipulating such a structured data set.

   Which database do you use: MySQL or Oracle?

4. (computing, loosely, metonymically) A combination of such data sets and the programs for using them.

• (computer software): DB

• (collection of organized information): data set, dataset, databank
• (computer software): database management system

• → Danish: database
• → Dutch: database
• → Hindi: डेटाबेस (ḍeṭābes)
• → Norwegian Bokmål: database
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: database

database (third-person singular simple present databases, present participle databasing, simple past and past participle databased)

1. To enter data into a database.
   • 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide‎, page 5:

     The resulting citation collection was databased and coded for meaning, etymon, and date range (earliest and latest occurrence found).

Borrowed from English database.

• IPA^(key): /daːtabaːsə/, [ˈd̥æːtˢaˌb̥æːsə], [ˌd̥æːtˢaˈb̥æːsə]

database c (singular definite databasen, plural indefinite databaser)

1. database [from 1970]

• database on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Borrowed from English database.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdaː.taːˌbeːs/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: da‧ta‧base

database f (plural databases, diminutive databaseje n)

1. database

• databank

database f (plural databases)

1. (dated) database

   Synonym: base de données

database (plural databases)

1. database

database m (invariable)

1. database

From data +‎ base.

database m (definite singular databasen, indefinite plural databaser, definite plural databasene)

1. (computing) a database

• “database” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From data +‎ base.

database m (definite singular databasen, indefinite plural databasar, definite plural databasane)

1. (computing) a database

• “database” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.