store
noun
- a building which contains goods for sale
- place where items are collected for future use
verb
- To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /stɔː/ / /stɔɹ/ / /sto(ː)ɹ/
noun
Etymology: From Middle English store, stoure, storre, from Anglo-Norman stor, estore, estorr, estoer, and Old French estour, estor, from Latin īnstaurō.
- 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.”
- A supply held in storage.
“Near-synonyms: stock, supply; cache, stash”
“They keep a store of canned goods in their basement.”
- A building (or portion thereof) where items may be purchased.
“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 […].””
- Memory.
“The main store of 1000 36-bit words seemed large at the time.”
- 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.”
- Ellipsis of store cattle beast: a head of store cattle (feeder cattle to be sold to others for finishing).
“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.”
verb
Etymology: From Middle English store, stoure, storre, from Anglo-Norman stor, estore, estorr, estoer, and Old French estour, estor, from Latin īnstaurō.
- To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose.
“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.”
- To contain.
“The cabinets store all the food the mice would like.”
- Have the capacity and capability to contain.
“They sell boxes that store 24 mason jars.”
- To write (something) into memory or registers.
“This operation stores the result on the stack.”
- To stock, to fill (a container, repository, etc.) with things.
“ON the Weſt of Tebeth lies the Province of Kaindu ᵈ, under its own Kings, till conquered by the Khân. It contains many Cities ; the Capital is of the ſame Name, and ſtands in the Entrance of the Province. Here is a great Salt-Lake, ſtored with Fiſh, and ſo affluent in Pearls, that they would be of no Value, if carried-away at Pleaſure.”
“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.”