Store

//stɔː// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.

    "Near-synonyms: storeroom, stockroom, warehouse, magazine (archaic)"

  2. 2
    an electronic memory device wordnet
  3. 3
    A supply held in storage.

    "Near-synonyms: stock, supply; cache, stash"

  4. 4
    a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services wordnet
  5. 5
    A building (or portion thereof) where items may be purchased. North-American, mainly

    "Dad went to the store to get milk and bread."

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  1. 6
    a depository for goods wordnet
  2. 7
    Memory. dated

    "The main store of 1000 36-bit words seemed large at the time."

  3. 8
    a supply of something available for future use wordnet
  4. 9
    A great quantity or number; abundance.

    "I make my love engrafted to this store."

  5. 10
    Ellipsis of store cattle beast: a head of store cattle (feeder cattle to be sold to others for finishing). abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis

    "heifers and stores"

Verb
  1. 1
    To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose. transitive

    "I'll store these books in the attic."

  2. 2
    keep or lay aside for future use wordnet
  3. 3
    To contain.

    "The cabinets store all the food the mice would like."

  4. 4
    find a place for and put away for storage wordnet
  5. 5
    Have the capacity and capability to contain.

    "They sell boxes that store 24 mason jars."

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  1. 6
    To write (something) into memory or registers. transitive

    "This operation stores the result on the stack."

  2. 7
    To stock, to fill (a container, repository, etc.) with things. transitive

    "I have eaten my fill, and had my pockets well stored."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English store, stoure, storre, from Anglo-Norman stor, estore, estorr, estoer, and Old French estour, estor, from Latin īnstaurō.

Etymology 2

From Middle English store, stoure, storre, from Anglo-Norman stor, estore, estorr, estoer, and Old French estour, estor, from Latin īnstaurō.

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