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countable and uncountable, plural garages
A building (or section of a building) used to store a car or cars, tools and other miscellaneous items. quotations examples
A little further on, to the right, was a large garage, where the charabancs stood, half in and half out of the yard.
1931, Francis Beeding, “2/2”, in Death Walks in Eastrepps
(chiefly Commonwealth, dated, in US) A place where cars are serviced and repaired. quotations examples
The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.
1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 7, in The China Governess
(chiefly Commonwealth) A petrol filling station. examples
(aviation) A shed for housing an airship or aeroplane or a launchable missile; a hangar. examples
A side way or space in a canal to enable vessels to pass each other; a siding. examples
(attributive, music) A type of guitar rock music, personified by amateur bands playing in the basement or garage; garage rock. examples
(Britain, music) A type of electronic dance music related to house music, with warped and time-stretched sounds; UK garage. examples
third-person singular simple present garages, present participle garaging, simple past and past participle garaged
To store in a garage. quotations examples
I garaged the car and went to Aunt Dahlia's sanctum to ascertain whether she had cooled off at all since I had left her, for I was still anxious about that blood pressure of hers.
1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XIX, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins
In large cities cars are nuisances unless you have enough money to afford to garage the beasts.
1979 April 28, Nancy Walker, “A Case of Mistaken Identity”, in Gay Community News, page 19