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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.
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A supply held in storage.
- Near-synonyms: stock, supply; cache, stash
- They keep a store of canned goods in their basement.
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A building (or portion thereof) where items may be purchased.North-Americanmainly
- Dad went to the store to get milk and bread.
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Memory.dated
- The main store of 1000 36-bit words seemed large at the time.
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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.
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Ellipsis of store cattle beast: a head of store cattle (feeder cattle to be sold to others for finishing).abbreviationalt-ofellipsis
- heifers and stores
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To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose.transitive
- I'll store these books in the attic.
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To contain.
- The cabinets store all the food the mice would like.
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Have the capacity and capability to contain.
- They sell boxes that store 24 mason jars.
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To write (something) into memory or registers.transitive
- This operation stores the result on the stack.
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To stock, to fill (a container, repository, etc.) with things.transitive
- 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.
- I have eaten my fill, and had my pockets well stored.