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Store
Definitions
- 1 A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.
"Near-synonyms: storeroom, stockroom, warehouse, magazine (archaic)"
- 2 an electronic memory device wordnet
- 3 A supply held in storage.
"Near-synonyms: stock, supply; cache, stash"
- 4 a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services wordnet
- 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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- 6 a depository for goods wordnet
- 7 Memory. dated
"The main store of 1000 36-bit words seemed large at the time."
- 8 a supply of something available for future use wordnet
- 9 A great quantity or number; abundance.
"I make my love engrafted to this store."
- 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"
- 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 keep or lay aside for future use wordnet
- 3 To contain.
"The cabinets store all the food the mice would like."
- 4 find a place for and put away for storage wordnet
- 5 Have the capacity and capability to contain.
"They sell boxes that store 24 mason jars."
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- 6 To write (something) into memory or registers. transitive
"This operation stores the result on the stack."
- 7 To stock, to fill (a container, repository, etc.) with things. transitive
"I have eaten my fill, and had my pockets well stored."
Etymology
From Middle English store, stoure, storre, from Anglo-Norman stor, estore, estorr, estoer, and Old French estour, estor, from Latin īnstaurō.
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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