garage

plural garages

1. countableuncountableA building (or section of a building) used to store a car or cars, tools and other miscellaneous items.

   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

2. CommonwealthcountabledateduncountableA place where cars are serviced and repaired.

   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: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC

   Synonyms: auto shop, car workshop, vehicle workshop

3. CommonwealthcountableuncountableA petrol filling station.

   Synonyms: petrol station, filling station, gas station, service station

4. countableuncountableaeronauticsA shed for housing an airship or aeroplane or a launchable missile; a hangar.
5. countableuncountableA side way or space in a canal to enable vessels to pass each other; a siding.
6. attributivecountableuncountableentertainmentA type of guitar rock music, personified by amateur bands playing in the basement or garage; garage rock.
7. UKcountableuncountableentertainmentA type of electronic dance music related to house music, with warped and time-stretched sounds; UK garage.

present singular third person garages · participle present garaging · participle past garaged · past garaged

1. To store in a garage.

   We garaged the convertible during the monsoon months.

   3 more examples

   Meanwhile the chauffeur who had driven them there—a subordinate member of the band—had garaged his car and was loitering about the drive in the expectation of further instructions.

   1934, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], The Bravo of London

   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, →OCLC

   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