overstore

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To overstock

   To overstock; to save more than is needed.

   • This fish is long in growing; but breeds exceedingly in a water that pleases him; yea, in many ponds so fast, as to overstore them, and starve the other fish.
   • even the Ocean it self would have been long since over-stored with Fiſh
   • It merely results in storing up energy at a very rapid rate; you can overstore and then you feel the intoxication of it, but that is overcome by a reasonable use of the breathing exercise.
2. 2

   To attempt to store more than the capacity into which something is put.

   • On every hand flourish trees, in the prime of a full score of years, Nature's aviaries, which are preparing hereafter to overstore the fruiteries from their burdened boughs, and now diversify the prospect with green and shade.
3. 3

   To open more stores than the retail market needs.

   • This is an area of vast geography and great retail growth. We can't overstore it.
   • One can observe expansion-deterring investment in retailing, for example, where a firm may "overstore" a geographic area to limit the expansion of rivals.
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   1. 4

      To imprint (something) upon the memory such that it includes additional emotional content…

      To imprint (something) upon the memory such that it includes additional emotional content and/or influences other thoughts and memories.

      • This in turn can cause a memory to be “overstored,” as a result of which it vividly resurfaces, sparking the symptoms of PTSD.
   2. 5

      To overfill or overschool the mind (with certain thoughts).

      • Miss Goode became temporarily lost in the mazes of her memory, which was, indeed, somewhat overstored with sayings which had been repeated to her.
      • Carstairs, on The Behemoth, drifted into sight as they started, his mind overstored by a night's reading, over-full of wise saws as to how to hunt a pack of hounds.
   3. 6

      To overwrite memory or storage.

      • An attempt to overstore this new pitch command resulted in a real-time pitch maneuver being commanded 23 times at 1-minute intervals, due to an undetected bit error in the command message.
      • BLH data from successive iterations overstore the original set of integrated BLH data.
   4. 7

      An instance of overstoring, a surplus.

      • So may the bread, this day sent down from heaven, Suffice for all the seven; And to each week, till toil and care are o'er, Each Sabbath still may yield its goodly overstore.
      • Thus Nature grants Enough for man's support; yea, more, she gives An overstore of all his simplest wants.
      • At the thought, horror freezes the vitals of all the political antiquarians, of which we have an overstore.
   5. 8

      The opening of too many stores or stores that are too large.

   6. 9

      The overwriting of memory or data, especially when done in error.

      • If the overstore involves non-reducible data, i.e. data which cannot be effectively stored by interpolation at larger intervals from the original data, then the run will abort.
      • […] a loop data destroyed by overstore
      • Floating point error ( or a calculation that goes to zero ) Overstore, jump out of bounds, or illegal instruction.
   7. 10

      Located above a store.

      • […] ; 72,364 ( 29.5 % ) are two-family homes; the remainder, 93,644, are multifamily and apartment-overstore dwellings.

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