/stɔː/, /stɔɹ/, /sto(ː)ɹ/
OriginFrom 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.”
“And his subjects wrung all they could wring
Out of temple and palace and store.”
- A supply held in storage.
“Near-synonyms: stock, supply; cache, stash”
“They keep a store of canned goods in their basement.”
“They could eat from their stores for a month or two if need be.”
- North-American, mainlyA 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 fe”
“In 1866 Colonel J. F. Meline noted that the rebozo had almost disappeared in Santa Fe and that hoop skirts, on sale in the stores, were being widely used.”
- datedMemory.
“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.”
- abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsisEllipsis 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, ”
- transitiveTo 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 ha”
“Following allocation to Toton on January 1 1996, it stayed there until transferral to Crewe in November 2000, before being stored at Eastleigh on December 17 the same year.”
- 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.”
- transitiveTo write (something) into memory or registers.
“This operation stores the result on the stack.”
- transitiveTo stock, to fill (a container, repository, etc.) with things.
“I have eaten my fill, and had my pockets well stored.”
Formsstores(plural) · stores(present, singular, third-person) · storing(participle, present) · stored(participle, past) · stored(past) · store(infinitive) · store(first-person, present, singular) · stored(first-person, past, singular) · store(present, second-person, singular) · storest(archaic, present, second-person, singular) · stored(past, second-person, singular) · storedst(archaic, past, second-person, singular) · storeth(archaic, present, singular, third-person) · stored(past, singular, third-person) · store(plural, present) · stored(past, plural) · store(present, subjunctive) · stored(past, subjunctive) · store(imperative, present) · -(imperative, past)