Library vs. Framework — What's the Difference?

A library is a collection of materials, books or media that are easily accessible for use and not just for display purposes. It is responsible for housing updated information in order to meet the user's needs on a daily basis.

An essential supporting structure of a building, vehicle, or object

A building or room containing collections of books, periodicals, and sometimes films and recorded music for use or borrowing by the public or the members of an institution

A structure for supporting or enclosing something else, especially a skeletal support used as the basis for something being constructed.

A place in which reading materials, such as books, periodicals, and newspapers, and often other materials such as musical and video recordings, are kept for use or lending.

An external work platform; a scaffold.

A collection of such materials, especially when systematically arranged.

A fundamental structure, as for a written work.

A room in a private home for such a collection.

A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality.

An institution or foundation maintaining such a collection.

(literally) A support structure comprising joined parts or conglomerated particles and intervening open spaces of similar or larger size.

A series of books issued by a publisher.

(literally) The arrangement of support beams that represent a building's general shape and size.

A collection of standard routines used in computer programs, usually stored as an executable file.

(figuratively) The larger branches of a tree that determine its shape.

A collection of cloned DNA sequences whose location and identity can be established by mapping the genome of a particular organism.

(figuratively) A basic conceptual structure.

A collection of proteins generated from the collected DNA sequences that express them, used for tracking metabolic functions of proteins in diseases such as cancer, for the synthesis of new drugs, and for other proteomics research.

(software engineering) A reusable piece of code (and, sometimes, other utilities) providing a standard environment within which an application can be implemented.

An institution which holds books and/or other forms of media for use by the public or qualified people often lending them out, as well as providing various other services for its users.

(grammar) An established and structured system of rules and principles used for analyzing and describing the structure of a language.

(by extension) Any institution that lends out its goods for use by the public or a community.

The work of framing, or the completed work; the frame or constructional part of anything; as, the framework of society.

A collection of books or other forms of stored information.

Work done in, or by means of, a frame or loom.

An equivalent collection of analogous information in a non-printed form, e.g. record library.

A simplified description of a complex entity or process;

A room dedicated to storing books.

The underlying structure;

(computer programming) A collection of software routines that provide functionality to be incorporated into or used by a computer program.

A structure supporting or containing something

(genetics) A collection of DNA material from a single organism or relative to a single disease.

(card games) The deck or draw pile.

A considerable collection of books kept for use, and not as merchandise; as, a private library; a public library.

A building or apartment appropriated for holding such a collection of books.

A room where books are kept;

A collection of literary documents or records kept for reference or borrowing

A depository built to contain books and other materials for reading and study

(computing) a collection of standard programs and subroutines that are stored and available for immediate use

A building that houses a collection of books and other materials