database

Etymology

data + base

noun

1. (general) A collection of (usually) organized information in a regular structure, usually but not necessarily in a machine-readable format accessible by a computer.
   I have a database of all my contacts in my personal organizer.
2. (computing) A set of tables and other objects (queries, reports, forms) in the form of a structured data set.
   The "books" database will have three tables, and the "customers" database will have two tables.
3. (computing, loosely, metonymically) A software program (application) for storing, retrieving and manipulating such a structured data set.
   Which database do you use: MySQL or Oracle?
4. (computing, loosely, metonymically) A combination of such data sets and the programs for using them.

verb

1. To enter data into a database.
   The resulting citation collection was databased and coded for meaning, etymon, and date range (earliest and latest occurrence found). 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 5