store
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
Middle English < Old French < from Latin instaurare
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- Rhymes: -ɔː(r)
[edit] Noun
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store (plural stores)
- A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.
- This building used to be a store for old tires.
- A supply held in storage.
- We have a large store of beer, in case we're snowed in.
- (mainly North American) A place where items may be purchased.
- I need to get some milk from the grocery store.
- (computing, archaic) Memory.
- The main store of 1000 36-bit words seemed large at the time.
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- (place where items may be kept):
- (supply held in storage): stock, supply
- (place from which items may be purchased): boutique, shop (UK)
- (in computing): memory
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Terms derived from store (noun)
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place where items may be kept
supply held in storage
place where items may be purchased
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in computing — see memory
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[edit] Verb
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to store (third-person singular simple present stores, present participle storing, simple past and past participle stored)
- (transitive) To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose.
- I'll store these books in the attic.
- (transitive, computing) Write (something) into memory or registers.
- This operation stores the result on the stack.
- (intransitive) To remain in good condition while stored.
- I don't think that kind of cheese will store well in the refrigerator.
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Terms derived from the verb "store"
[edit] Translations
keep (something) while not in use
computing: write (something) into memory or registers
remain in good condition while stored
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[edit] See also
store in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
[edit] French
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[edit] Noun
store m. (plural stores)
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store
- definite singular, natural gender masculine, of stor
