garages

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of garage.

   Both garages flooded during the heavy rain last week.

   The dealership operates three repair garages across the city.

   Note

   One spelling covers many kinds of building. Where the word means a structure for keeping cars, garages are simply several of them. In Commonwealth usage the plural can also mean filling stations, or, in a now dated sense, repair workshops. It stretches further still, to sheds for aircraft or missiles and to passing places on a canal. The same spelling also serves as the verb for putting something away, so in "she garages the car" it is a verb, not a noun.

2. 2
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present of garage.

   The collector garages each motorcycle in a climate-controlled space.

   My neighbor garages his boat next to the family sedan.

   Note

   The verb is narrow but transitive. To garage something is to store it in a garage, and its object is the thing put away, not the building: she garages the car, he garages the boat. Because the meaning rests on what is stored, it reaches easily beyond cars to motorcycles, trailers and anything else kept under that roof. The -s form is the one a singular subject takes in the present tense.

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