store

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.

   • Near-synonyms: storeroom, stockroom, warehouse, magazine (archaic)
   • This building used to be a store for old tires.
   • And his subjects wrung all they could wring Out of temple and palace and store.
2. 2

   A supply held in storage.

   • Near-synonyms: stock, supply; cache, stash
   • They keep a store of canned goods in their basement.
   • They could eat from their stores for a month or two if need be.
3. 3

   A building (or portion thereof) where items may be purchased.

   • Dad went to the store to get milk and bread.
   • In 1866 Colonel J. F. Meline noted that the rebozo had almost disappeared in Santa Fe and that hoop skirts, on sale in the stores, were being widely used.
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   1. 4

      Memory.

      • The main store of 1000 36-bit words seemed large at the time.
   2. 5

      A great quantity or number

      A great quantity or number; abundance.

      • I make my love engrafted to this store.
      • With store of Ladies, whose bright eies Rain influence, and judge the prise Of Wit, or Arms, while both contend To win her Grace, whom all commend.
   3. 6

      Ellipsis of store cattle beast

      Ellipsis of store cattle beast: a head of store cattle (feeder cattle to be sold to others for finishing).

      • heifers and stores
   4. 7

      To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose.

      • I'll store these books in the attic.
      • Following allocation to Toton on January 1 1996, it stayed there until transferral to Crewe in November 2000, before being stored at Eastleigh on December 17 the same year.
   5. 8

      To contain.

      • The cabinets store all the food the mice would like.
   6. 9

      Have the capacity and capability to contain.

      • They sell boxes that store 24 mason jars.
   7. 10

      To write (something) into memory or registers.

      • This operation stores the result on the stack.
   8. 11

      To stock, to fill (a container, repository, etc.) with things.

      • His great passion was for hearing stories, and whenever he met any one who was well stored, he never let him go till he had heard them all.
      • I have eaten my fill, and had my pockets well stored.

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