Dictionary Definition
store
Noun
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,
computer
memory, storage,
computer
storage, memory
board]
4 a depository for goods; "storehouses were built
close to the docks" [syn: storehouse, depot, entrepot, storage]
Verb
1 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" [syn: hive away,
lay in,
put in,
salt
away, stack away,
stash
away]
2 find a place for and put away for storage;
"where should we stow the vegetables?"; "I couldn't store all the
books in the attic so I sold some"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
< < from instaurarePronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɔː(r)
Noun
- 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.
- We have a large store of beer, in case we're snowed in.
- In the context of "mainly North American": A place where items
may be purchased.
- I need to get some milk from the grocery store.
- In the context of "computing|archaic": Memory.
- The main store of 1000 36-bit words seemed large at the time.
Synonyms
Derived terms
- drugstore
- general store
- variety store
- in store
- put store in
- set store by
- storage
- storebought
- storefront
- storekeeper
- store away
- store room
- store up
Related terms
Translations
place where items may be kept
supply held in storage
place where items may be purchased
in computing See memory
Translations to be checked
Verb
- To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place
meant for that purpose.
- I'll store these books in the attic.
- In the context of "transitive|computing": Write (something)
into memory or registers.
- This operation stores the result on the stack.
- To remain in good condition while stored.
- I don't think that kind of cheese will store well in the refrigerator.
Translations
keep (something) while not in use
computing: write (something) into memory or
registers
remain in good condition while stored
- Danish: beholde
- Dutch: behouden
- Finnish: säilyä
- French: conserver
- German: sich halten
- Italian: conservare
- Norwegian: holde (seg)
- Spanish: conservar
- Swedish: hålla sig
French
Etymology
storeaNoun
fr-noun mSwedish
Adjective
store- definite singular, natural gender masculine, of stor
Extensive Definition
Store may refer to:
- In the military:
See also
store in Spanish: Tienda (desambiguación)
store in Hebrew: חנות
store in Japanese: 店
store in Portuguese: Loja
store in Simple English: Store
store in Yiddish: געשעפט
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Indian reservation, acceptation, acception, accommodate, accumulate, accumulation, acquiescence, afford, aggregate, amass, archives, armory, arsenal, assemble, assurance, assuredness, attic, backlog, bag, bank, bank on, barrel, basement, bay, belief, believe in, bestow, bin, bird sanctuary, bonded
warehouse, bookcase,
bosom, bottle, bottle up, bought, boughten, boutique, box, bundle away, bunker, burden, bury, buttery, cache, can, canned foods, capital gains,
cargo dock, cellar,
certainty, chain
store, chest, cleanup, clear profit, closet, clothe, co-op, coffer, collect, collection, commissariat, commissary, concession, confidence, conservatory, contribute, cooperative, count on,
countinghouse,
country store, crate,
credence, credit, credulity, crib, cumulate, cupboard, dehydrated foods,
delay, department store,
depend on, dependence, deposit, depository, depot, dime store, discount house,
discount store, dividends, dock, donate, drawer, dump, earnings, embosom, emporium, endow, establishment, exchequer, faith, file, file and forget, fill, fill up, filthy lucre,
find, five-and-ten, food
supply, forest preserve, freight, fresh foods, frozen
foods, fund, furnish, gain, gains, game reserve, general
store, get, gettings, give, gleanings, glory hole,
godown, groceries, grocery, gross, gross profit, heap, heap up, hide away, hoard, hold, hope, house, hutch, income, interest, inventory, invest, keep, keep hidden, keep secret,
killing, lade, larder, lay aside, lay away, lay
by, lay down, lay in, lay in store, library, load, lock up, locker, lodge, lucre, lumber room, lumberyard, magasin, magazine, mail-order house,
maintain, make
available, make provision for, makings, market, mart, mass, material resources, materials, materiel, museum, national forest, national
park, neat profit, nest,
net, net profit, outlet, pack, pack away, paper profits,
paradise, park, pelf, percentage, perk, perks, perquisite, pickings, pigeonhole, pile, pile up, plant, pocket, post, postpone, prepare, present, preserve, proceeds, process, procure materials,
profit, profits, provender, provide, provide for, provisions, push aside, put
aside, put away, put by, put in mothballs, rack, rake-off, raw material,
ready-made, ready-to-wear, receipts, reception, recruit, reliance, reliance on, rely on,
repertory, replenish, reposit, repository, reservation, reserve, reservoir, retail store,
retailer, return, returns, rick, sack, salon, salt away, salt down,
sanctuary, seal up,
secrete, set aside, set
by, shelf, shelve, ship, shop, sideline, stack, stack room, staple, stash, state forest, stock, stock room, stock up,
stockpile, storage, store away,
store-bought, storehouse, storeroom, stores, stow, stow away, stow down,
stuff, subsidize, substances, supermarket, supplies, supply, supply base, supply
depot, support, sureness, surety, suspension of disbelief,
table, table the motion,
take, take-in, tank, trading post, treasure house,
treasure room, treasury, trust, trust in, utilize, value, variety shop, variety
store, vat, vault, warehouse, wareroom, wealth, wholesale house,
wilderness preserve, wildlife preserve, wine cellar, winnings, yield