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Garage   /gərˈɑʒ/   Listen
noun
Garage  n.  
1.
An enclosed structure for housing or parking motor vehicles, especially automobiles.
2.
(Aeronautics) A shed for housing an airship or flying machine; a hangar.
3.
A side way or space in a canal to enable vessels to pass each other; a siding.
4.
A commercial establishment that repairs or services automobiles.



verb
Garage  v. t.  (past & past part. garaged; pres. part. garaging)  To keep in a garage. (Colloq.)






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"Garage" Quotes from Famous Books



... knocked some splinters from the barn, put a crimp in a mud-guard, and smashed another man's tail-light in the process, but nothing fatal occurred, though I found it a pretty good plan to stick fairly close to my new study on the cedar slope if I wanted to keep up with the garage and damage bills. Those bills startled me, at first, and then, like everybody else, I became callous and reckless, and we did without a good many other things in order that the car might not go unshod or climb limpingly the stiff ...
— Dwellers in Arcady - The Story of an Abandoned Farm • Albert Bigelow Paine

... did not see what it was. When I understood that the whole family had been taken away, dead or alive, or had somehow disappeared, and that there was nothing for us to do, I took Philip and we rushed back to Syvorotka. The trucks and the chauffeurs were all gone. In the garage we found Syvorotka tied with a rope and shot in the spine, and bleeding from scratches and other wounds. From the appearance of the garage we understood that there had been a struggle, but he could not speak comprehensively; ...
— Rescuing the Czar - Two authentic Diaries arranged and translated • James P. Smythe

... Terminal, equipped with freight station, locomotives, tugboats, steam lighters, car floats, and barges. City deliveries of coffee and sugar call for a fleet of thirty-five large motor trucks that are housed in the firm's own garage and kept in repair in their own shops. Although motor trucks are fast replacing the faithful horse; and the time will never come again when Arbuckle Bros. will boast of their stable of nearly two hundred horses that were generally acknowledged to be the finest string of draft horses in ...
— All About Coffee • William H. Ukers

... added Kennedy, as McNeill started down the hill to the garage. "If he is a fox he'll try to throw you off the trail. ...
— The War Terror • Arthur B. Reeve

... inquiry, she learned that they actually lived there. After a few days of brooding she employed a detective, and learned that Cowperwood was a constant visitor at the Carters', that the machine in which they rode was his maintained at a separate garage, and that they were of society truly. Aileen would never have followed the clue so vigorously had it not been for the look she had seen Cowperwood fix on the girl in the Park and in the restaurant—an air of soul-hunger which could ...
— The Titan • Theodore Dreiser


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