# garage

Pronunciation: US say "guh-RAHZH" /ɡəˈɹɑʒ/; UK say "GA-rij" /ˈɡæ.ɹɪdʒ/; AUS say "GA-rahzh" /ˈɡæ.ɹɑː(d)ʒ/

## Noun

1. A building, or part of one, where a car or cars are kept together with tools and other odds and ends.
   - Simple: A building or part of a house where people keep cars and tools.
   - _The movers stacked the extra furniture in the garage until the new house was ready._
   - _She converted half of the garage into a small woodworking shop._
2. A workshop that carries out servicing and repairs on cars. *(Commonwealth)*
   - Simple: A place where workers fix cars and keep them running well.
   - _Her sedan spent three days at the garage before the mechanic found the leak._
   - _Grandpa still trusts the little garage on Main Street more than any dealership._
3. A raw style of guitar rock associated with amateur bands playing in basements and garages; also called garage rock.
   - Simple: A kind of rock music with loud, simple guitar songs, often played by new bands practicing at home.
   - _The club books garage on Thursday nights, all fuzz pedals and shouted choruses._
   - _His record collection runs heavy on sixties garage and early punk._
4. A style of electronic dance music related to house, marked by warped and time-stretched sounds; known as UK garage. *(British)*
   - Simple: A kind of British dance music with skipping beats and voices that sound stretched and bent.
   - _Pirate radio stations across London pushed garage into the mainstream in the late nineties._
   - _She produces garage with chopped vocals over a shuffling two-step beat._
6. A filling station where drivers buy fuel for their vehicles; a gas station. *(Commonwealth)*
   - Simple: A place where drivers stop to buy gas for their cars.
   - _They pulled into a garage just off the highway when the fuel light came on._
   - _The village garage stayed open late so truckers could fill their tanks._

## Verb

5. To store something, especially a vehicle, in a garage.
   - Simple: To keep a car or other vehicle inside a garage.
   - _Collectors often garage their classic cars to protect the paint from sun damage._
   - _The delivery vans are garaged overnight at the company depot._

## Other meanings

- (noun) A shed or building for housing an airship, airplane, or launchable missile; a hangar.
- (noun) A siding on a canal; a space to the side of the channel where boats can move aside to let others pass.

## Origin

Borrowed from French garage ("keeping under cover, protection, shelter"), from the verb garer ("to keep under cover, dock, guard"). This traces back through Old French and Old Norse roots, probably to Proto-Germanic *warōną or *warjaną ("to guard, ward off") and ultimately a Proto-Indo-European root *wer-.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/garage (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).