store
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Middle English, from Old French, from Latin instaurare
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
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.
- 1945, George Orwell, Animal Farm, chapter 6
- By late summer a sufficient store of stone had accumulated, and then the building began […] .
- 1945, George Orwell, Animal Farm, chapter 6
- (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.
- A large amount of information retained in one's memory.
- His vast store of jokes means he has something funny to say in every situation.
Synonyms [edit]
- (supply held in storage): stock, supply
- (place from which items may be purchased): boutique, shop (UK); see also Wikisaurus:retail store
- (in computing): memory
Derived terms [edit]
Terms derived from store (noun)
Related terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
place where items may be kept
supply held in storage
shop — see shop
in computing — see memory
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Verb [edit]
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.
Derived terms [edit]
Terms derived from the verb "store"
Translations [edit]
keep (something) while not in use
computing: write (something) into memory or registers
remain in good condition while stored
See also [edit]
Store on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
store in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Anagrams [edit]
Danish [edit]
Adjective [edit]
store
Dutch [edit]
Verb [edit]
store
Anagrams [edit]
French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Latin storea.
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
store m (plural stores)
Anagrams [edit]
Norwegian Bokmål [edit]
Adjective [edit]
store
Norwegian Nynorsk [edit]
Adjective [edit]
store
Swedish [edit]
Adjective [edit]
store
- absolute definite natural masculine form of stor.
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