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6 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Store \Store\, n. [OE. stor, stoor, OF estor, provisions, supplies, fr estorer to store. See {Store}, v. t.] 1. That which is accumulated, or massed together; a source from which supplies may be drawn; hence an abundance; a great quantity, or a great number. The ships are fraught with store of victuals. --Bacon. With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and give the prize. --Milton. 2. A place of deposit for goods, esp. for large quantities; a storehouse; a warehouse; a magazine. 3. Any place where goods are sold, whether by wholesale or retail; a shop. [U.S. & British Colonies] 4. pl Articles, especially of food, accumulated for some specific object; supplies, as of provisions, arms, ammunition, and the like as the stores of an army, of a ship, of a family. His swine, his horse, his stoor, and his poultry. --Chaucer. {In store}, in a state of accumulation; in keeping; hence in a state of readiness. ``I have better news in store for thee.'' --Shak. {Store clothes}, clothing purchased at a shop or store; -- in distinction from that which is home-made. [Colloq. U.S.] {Store pay}, payment for goods or work in articles from a shop or store, instead of money. [U.S.] {To set store by}, to value greatly; to have a high appreciation of {To tell no store of}, to make no account of to consider of no importance. Syn: Fund; supply; abundance; plenty; accumulation; provision. Usage: {Store}, {Shop}. The English call the place where goods are sold (however large or splendid it may be) a shop, and confine the word store to its original meaning; viz., a warehouse, or place where goods are stored. In America the word store is applied to all places, except the smallest, where goods are sold. In some British colonies the word store is used as in the United States. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Store \Store\, a. Accumulated; hoarded. --Bacon. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Store \Store\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stored}; p. pr & vb n. {Storing}.] [OE. storen, OF estorer to construct, restore, store, LL staurare for L. instaurare to renew, restore; in + staurare (in comp.) Cf {Instore}, {Instaurate}, {Restore}, {Story} a floor.] 1. To collect as a reserved supply; to accumulate; to lay away Dora stored what little she could save. --Tennyson. 2. To furnish; to supply; to replenish; esp., to stock or furnish against a future time. Her mind with thousand virtues stored. --Prior. Wise Plato said the world with men was stored. --Denham. Having stored a pond of four acres with carps, tench, and other fish. --Sir M. Hale. 3. To deposit in a store, warehouse, or other building, for preservation; to warehouse; as to store goods. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: store adj : purchased; not homemade; "my boughten clothes"; "store teeth"; "store bread"; "a store-bought dress" [syn: {boughten}, {store-bought}] n 1: a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services; "he bought it at a shop on Cape Cod" [syn: {shop}] 2: a supply of something available for future use "he brought back a large store of Cuban cigars" [syn: {stock}, {fund}] 3: an electronic memory device; "a memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached" [syn: {memory}, {storage}, {memory board}] 4: a depository for goods; "storehouses were built close to the docks" [syn: {storehouse}, {depot}, {entrepot}, {storage}] 5: depositing in a warehouse [syn: {repositing}, {reposition}, {storing}, {warehousing}] v 1: lay away for future use [syn: {hive away}, {lay in}, {put in}, {salt away}, {stack away}, {stash away}] 2: provide storage for or keep in storage 3: put away for storage; "where should we stow the vegetables for the winter?" [syn: {stow}, {garner}] From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]: store n. [prob. from techspeak `main store'] In some varieties of Commonwealth hackish, the preferred synonym for {core}. Thus `bringing a program into store' means not that one is returning shrink-wrapped software but that a program is being {swap}ped in From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: store [probably from "main store"] In some varieties of Commonwealth hackish, the preferred synonym for {core}. Thus "bringing a program into store" means not that one is returning shrink-wrapped software but that a program is being {swap}ped in [{Jargon File}]
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