garage. / (ˈɡærɑːʒ, -rɪdʒ) / noun. a building or part of a building used to house a motor vehicle. a commercial establishment in which motor vehicles are repaired, serviced, bought, and sold, and which usually also sells motor fuels.
a building where a car or cars are kept, esp. one that is next to or part of a house: The car wasn't in the garage so I thought you weren't home. A garage is also a place where you can have your car repaired.
Borrowed from French garage (“keeping under cover, protection, shelter”), derivative of French garer (“to keep under cover, dock, shunt, guard, keep”), from Middle French garer, garrer, guerrer; partly from Old French garir, warir (from Old Frankish *warjan); and partly from Old French varer (“to fight, defend oneself, ...
By about 1912, architects were hailing the invention of this 'new kind of outbuilding' and calling it a garage; a word derived from the French word garer, which means to shelter or protect. In some towns, large, privately owned garages were constructed, and automobile owners rented space for their car.
Garage music is named for the legendary Paradise Garage nightclub, a seminal nightclub that was operational between 1978 and 1987, and featured DJs such as Larry Levan playing disco, post-disco and early house music amongst other styles.
[ guh-rahzh-man, -rahj- or, especially British, gar-ij-, -ahzh- ] show ipa. noun,plural ga·rage·men. a person who works in a garage, as a mechanic or attendant.
“Garage” is a French loanword. Americans pronounce it like the French. British changed the pronunciation and dropped the emphasis on the 2nd syllable because it fits the pronunciation of similar sounding words like “VILLage” or “MARRiage”.
Garages were, of course, designed to house cars. But they soon became much more: storage spaces, offices, man caves. Entire companies were concocted in a garage, and several styles of music were named after it.
Origins. The evolution of house music in the United Kingdom in the early to mid-1990s led to the term, as previously coined by the Paradise Garage DJs, being applied to a new form of music known as speed garage.
In the United States, the term parking structure is used, especially when it is necessary to distinguish such a structure from the "garage" connected with a house. In some places in North America, "parking garage" refers only to an indoor, often underground, structure.
The word “garage” comes from the French word “garer” which means “to shelter.” In fact, the first garages were called carriage or coach houses and were built to protect the horse-drawn carriage and its gear.
The pub where UK garage was invented is being turned into an estate agents. In the early 90s, The Elephant And Castle in South London was the site of Happy Days, the Sunday party where UKG originator Matt Jam Lamont was resident.
Because of the high price of the US imports in the record shops, certain producers in the UK (such as Grant Nelson, Richard Purser & Warren Clarke ) started making their own Garage records with the distinct British flavour, giving birth to the UK Garage sound, releasing dubs on labels like Nice'N'Ripe and Swing City.
What's more, they said the biggest reason, they suggested at least, was people are now just too lazy to put their car away at night! They noted that a typical garage contained DIY tools, Decorating stuff, gardening equipment, sports equipment, bikes and scooters but rarely a motor vehicle!
Some of the most prosperous and highest rated companies in the world began in a garage, a room that is so small and unimportant that most of us have access to something, is inspirational. Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Dell, Mattel, Amazon and Walt Disney all started out in garages.
Because it costs money to build a bigger garage. Housing developers are only building for profit, like any business. Adding another foot to the width of every garage might cost say £300 a garage (total guess).
Let's look at the spelling patterns and the pronunciation patterns for words ending in “age” pronounced /ɑːʒ/. These example words are like the posh pronunciation of the word garage /ˈgær. ɑːʒ/. Learn how to pronounce 'massage', 'mirage', 'camouflage', 'sabotage' and 'espionage' in British English.
car repair shop: the regionalism is in the pronunciation - South-west Aussies say gar arj; Melbournians say garage as in carriage. Contributor's comments: Victorians say "gar arj"!
