Advanced Search. A computer storage device is any type of hardware that stores data. The most common type of storage device, which nearly all computers have, is a hard drive. The computer's primary hard drive stores the operating system, applications, and files and folders for users of the computer.
â n. 1. a pin of wood or other material driven or fitted into something, as to fasten parts together, to hang things on, to make fast a rope or string on, to stop a hole, or to mark some point. 2. Informal. a leg, either real or wooden: still on his pegs at 99.3. a notch or degree: to come down a peg.. an occasion, basis, or reason: a peg to hang a grievance on. 5. Also called pin. Music. a pin of wood or metal in the neck of a stringed instrument that may be turned in its socket to adjust a string's tension.
(ËÃ¦ÅkÉ) n. 1. (Nautical Terms) any of several devices, usually of steel, attached to a vessel by a cable and dropped overboard so as to grip the bottom and restrict the vessel's movement. 2. an object used to hold something else firmly in place: the rock provided an anchor for the rope. 3. a source of stability or security: religion was his anchor. 4. (Building) a. a metal cramp, bolt, or similar fitting, esp one used to make a connection to masonry. b. (as modifier): anchor bolt; anchor plate.