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Store   /stɔr/   Listen
noun
Store  n.  
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." "With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and give the prize."
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."
In store, in a state of accumulation; in keeping; hence, in a state of readiness. "I have better news in store for thee."
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.
Synonyms: Fund; supply; abundance; plenty; accumulation; provision. 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. "In his needy shop a tortoise hung, An alligator stuffed, and other skins Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves A beggarly account of empty boxes." "Sulphurous and nitrous foam,... Concocted and adjusted, they reduced To blackest grain, and into store conveyed."


verb
Store  v. t.  (past & past part. stored; pres. part. storing)  
1.
To collect as a reserved supply; to accumulate; to lay away. "Dora stored what little she could save."
2.
To furnish; to supply; to replenish; esp., to stock or furnish against a future time. "Her mind with thousand virtues stored." "Wise Plato said the world with men was stored." "Having stored a pond of four acres with carps, tench, and other fish."
3.
To deposit in a store, warehouse, or other building, for preservation; to warehouse; as, to store goods.


adjective
Store  adj.  Accumulated; hoarded.





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"Store" Quotes from Famous Books



... it will take me a long while to earn more than $300; but I am going to work awful hard, making baskets and other things, and I am going to get Judd Amos, our naybor, to sell them for me at the village store, for he goes down their trading every week, and he will do anything I ask him, like ...
— 'Smiles' - A Rose of the Cumberlands • Eliot H. Robinson
... I asked Posh the meaning of the signature "Flagstone FitzGerald" he burst out laughing. "What!" said he. "Hain't yew niver heard about ole Flagstone? He was a retail and wholesale grocer and gin'ral store dealer at Yarmouth name —-" (well, we will say Smith for purposes of reference. As the man's sons still carry on his old business here in Lowestoft it is as well not to give the true name. By the way, ...
— Edward FitzGerald and "Posh" - "Herring Merchants" • James Blyth
... found tools by which to effect entry into any desired part. My first search was for time-fuses of good type, of which I needed two or three thousand, and after a wearily long time found a great number symmetrically arranged in rows in a range of buildings called the Ordnance Store Department. I then descended, walked back to the wharf, brought up my train, and began to lower the fuses in bag-fulls by ropes through a shoot, letting go each rope as the fuses reached the cart. However, on winding one fuse, I found that the mechanism would not go, ...
— The Purple Cloud • M.P. Shiel
... walls for making sallies from his fort, and carefully make arrangements for their defence like that of the greater gates.[221] In all his gates he should plant destructive engines. He should plant on the ramparts (of his forts) Sataghnis and other weapons. He should store wood for fuel and dig and repair wells for supply of water to the garrison. He should cause all houses made of grass and straw to be plastered over with mud, and if it is the summer month, he should, ...
— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 - Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 • Unknown
... take the roots to some running stream to be washed. If there is no running stream convenient, it can be done at a pump. Take large round sieves, two-and-a-half or three feet in diameter, with the wire about as fine as wheat sieves; or if these cannot be had, get from a hardware store sufficient screen wire of the right fineness, and make frames or boxes, two-and-a-half feet long and the width of the, wire, on the bottom of which nail the wire. In these sieves or boxes, put half a bushel of roots at a time, and stir them about in the water, pulling the branches ...
— The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom • P. L. Simmonds


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