Definitions for store
stɔr, stoʊrstore

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. shop, store(noun)

   a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services

   "he bought it at a shop on Cape Cod"

2. store, stock, fund(noun)

   a supply of something available for future use

   "he brought back a large store of Cuban cigars"

3. memory, computer memory, storage, computer storage, store, memory board(noun)

   an electronic memory device

   "a memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached"

4. storehouse, depot, entrepot, storage, store(verb)

   a depository for goods

   "storehouses were built close to the docks"

5. store, hive away, lay in, put in, salt away, stack away, stash away(verb)

   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"

6. store(verb)

   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"

Wiktionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. store(Noun)

   A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.

   This building used to be a store for old tires.

2. store(Noun)

   A supply held in storage.

   We have a large store of beer, in case we're snowed in.

3. store(Noun)

   A place where items may be purchased.

   I need to get some milk from the grocery store.

4. store(Noun)

   Memory.

   The main store of 1000 36-bit words seemed large at the time.

5. store(Verb)

   To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose.

   I'll store these books in the attic.

6. store(Verb)

   Write (something) into memory or registers.

   This operation stores the result on the stack.

7. store(Verb)

   To remain in good condition while stored.

   I don't think that kind of cheese will store well in the refrigerator.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Store(verb)

   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

   Etymology: [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.]

2. Store(verb)

   a place of deposit for goods, esp. for large quantities; a storehouse; a warehouse; a magazine

   Etymology: [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.]

3. Store(verb)

   any place where goods are sold, whether by wholesale or retail; a shop

   Etymology: [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.]

4. Store(verb)

   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

   Etymology: [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.]

5. Store(adj)

   accumulated; hoarded

   Etymology: [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.]

6. Store(verb)

   to collect as a reserved supply; to accumulate; to lay away

   Etymology: [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.]

7. Store(verb)

   to furnish; to supply; to replenish; esp., to stock or furnish against a future time

   Etymology: [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.]

8. Store(verb)

   to deposit in a store, warehouse, or other building, for preservation; to warehouse; as, to store goods

   Etymology: [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.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Store

   stōr, n. a hoard or quantity gathered: abundance: a storehouse: any place where goods are sold: (pl.) supplies of provisions, ammunition, &c. for an army or a ship.—v.t. to gather in quantities: to supply: to lay up in store: to hoard: to place in a warehouse.—adj. Stō′rable, capable of being stored.—ns. Stō′rage, the placing in a store: the safe-keeping of goods in a store: the price paid or charged for keeping goods in a store; Store′-farm (Scot.), a stock-farm, a cattle-farm; Store′-farm′er; Store′house, a house for storing goods of any kind: a repository: a treasury; Store′-keep′er, a man who has charge of a store: one who owns a store: (U.S.) any unsaleable article; Stō′rer, one who stores; Store′room, a room in which things are stored: a room in a store; Store′-ship, a vessel used for transporting naval stores.—In store (Shak.), in hoard for future use, ready for supply; Set store by, to value greatly. [O. Fr. estor, estoire—L. instaurāre, to provide.]

The New Hacker's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. store

   [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 swapped in.

Etymology and Origins(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Store

   An Americanism for a shop or warehouse.

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'store' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2858

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'store' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3009

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'store' in Nouns Frequency: #791

4. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'store' in Verbs Frequency: #535

Anagrams for store »

1. resto

2. torse

How to pronounce store?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of store in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of store in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of store in a Sentence

1. Kin Hubbard:

   A woman will buy anything she thinks the store is losing money on.

2. Liz Weinandy:

   Adults can go to the grocery store more and prep food to take on the go so we don't have to get in a situation where we need to rely on fast food so much.

3. Scott Laurence:

   Not going to Cuba is sort of like a grocery store that doesn't sell milk, there's this huge country right in the middle of our route map that we don't serve.

4. Tony Wooten:

   She forced employees to the back of the store, where she zip-tied their hands before robbing the Zales.

5. Paul Steck:

   I want my onions grilled when I order them, and I want my pita warm from the oven, not the microwave. To me, that’s fresh. while most of the industry has gone to bagged lettuce product—there’s a whole wall of that stuff in the grocery store now—we take full heads of lettuce and chop them each day.

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