Store

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.

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.

But there was an infinite store of mercy in those eyes, for him too a word of pardon even though he had erred and sinned and wandered.

By late summer a sufficient store of stone had accumulated, and then the building began[…], under the superintendence of the pigs.

What surprised us all was how Will's lighthearted nature and constant store of good humor won over one of the great heiresses of King Henry's court, Anne Bourchier.

Dad went to the store to get milk and bread.

There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. “Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store, an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up […].”

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.

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

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.

heifers and stores

She saw that there were cattle grazing on two of the fields between her and the river. Whether they were the fields next to the bank she could not be sure, because she could not see the river itself, but from the distance and the fences she thought they must be. If they were a milking herd, it meant that twice a day someone would have to come from Calton and call them in and count heads and open gates for them, but she could not see from here if they were. At this time of the year the heifers and stores looked grown beasts at this distance. There was no one with them now.

I'll store these books in the attic.

The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.

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.

The cabinets store all the food the mice would like.

They sell boxes that store 24 mason jars.

This operation stores the result on the stack.

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