store

Plural: stores

Noun

• a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services
• a supply of something available for future use
  • "he brought back a large store of Cuban cigars"
• an electronic memory device
• a depository for goods
  • "storehouses were built close to the docks"
• A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.
• A supply held in storage.
• A place where items may be purchased; a shop.
• Memory.
• A great quantity or number; abundance.
• A head of store cattle (feeder cattle to be sold to others for finishing); a store cattle beast.

Verb

Verb Forms: stored, storing, stores

• To put aside for future use or to accumulate a supply.
• keep or lay aside for future use
  • "store grain for the winter"
  • "The bear stores fat for the period of hibernation when he doesn't eat"
• find a place for and put away for storage
  • "I couldn't store all the books in the attic so I sold some"
• To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose.
• To contain.
• Have the capacity and capability to contain.
• To write (something) into memory or registers.
• To stock, to fill (a container, repository, etc.) with things.

Examples

• I need to get some milk from the grocery store.
• I'll store these books in the attic.
• She preferred to STORE her high-value tiles rather than playing them for minimal points.
• The cabinets store all the food the mice would like.
• The main store of 1000 36-bit words seemed large at the time.
• They sell boxes that store 24 mason jars.
• This building used to be a store for old tires.
• This operation stores the result on the stack.

Synonyms

computer memory, computer storage, depot, entrepot, fund, hive away, lay in, memory, memory board, put in, salt away, shop, stack away, stash away, stock, storage, storehouse, boutique, retail store, supply

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