Store
[stɔː] or [stɔr]
Definition
(noun.) a supply of something available for future use; 'he brought back a large store of Cuban cigars'.
(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'.
(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'.
Typist: Sonia--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) A place of deposit for goods, esp. for large quantities; a storehouse; a warehouse; a magazine.
(v. t.) Any place where goods are sold, whether by wholesale or retail; a shop.
(v. t.) 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.
(a.) Accumulated; hoarded.
(v. t.) To collect as a reserved supply; to accumulate; to lay away.
(v. t.) To furnish; to supply; to replenish; esp., to stock or furnish against a future time.
(v. t.) To deposit in a store, warehouse, or other building, for preservation; to warehouse; as, to store goods.
Checked by Bryant
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Stock, supply.[2]. Abundance, plenty, great quantity, great number.[3]. Warehouse, magazine, store-house, repository, depot.[4]. Shop.
v. a. [1]. Garner, hoard, husband, deposit, save, reserve, treasure up, lay in, lay up, lay by, set by, store up, lay in store.[2]. Supply, furnish, stock, replenish, provide.
Editor: Wendell
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See REST]
SYN:Treasure, treasury, garner, provision, supply, fund, accumulation, hoard,abundance, shop, place_of_business, ammunition, stock
ANT:Emptiness, lack, misprovision, failure, exhaustion, want, expenditure,{[disjxjsal]?}, consumption
Editor: Tracy
Definition
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.
Typed by Larry
Unserious Contents or Definition
For a china merchant to dream that his store looks empty, foretells he will have reverses in his business, and withal a gloomy period will follow. See Crockery.
To dream of a store filled with merchandise, foretells prosperity and advancement. An empty one, denotes failure of efforts and quarrels. To dream that your store is burning, is a sign of renewed activity in business and pleasure. If you find yourself in a department store, it foretells that much pleasure will be derived from various sources of profit. To sell goods in one, your advancement will be accelerated by your energy and the efforts of friends. To dream that you sell a pair of soiled, gray cotton gloves to a woman, foretells that your opinion of women will place you in hazardous positions. If a woman has this dream, her preference for some one of the male sex will not be appreciated very much by him.
Checker: Virgil
Examples
- The marine-store merchant holds the light, and the law-stationer conducts the search. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Though war and danger were in store, war and danger might not befall for months to come. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The principle of the air brake is to store up compressed air in a reservoir on the locomotive by means of a steam pump. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Warren was to move to Parker's store, and Wilson's cavalry--then at Parker's store--to move on to Craig's meeting-house. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Sooner or later I will solve all these problems which are now so tantalizing; but, come what may, one good thing is in store for me. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Look at that cigar store Indian, Robert Jordan thought. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The store of nutriment laid up within the seeds of many plants seems at first sight to have no sort of relation to other plants. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- What stores of knowledge they possessed! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Adding machines may be found at work in all kinds of business places from corner groceries to department stores and manufacturing plants. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- One incident tells how he was found one day in the village square copying laboriously the signs of the stores. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Every mile he advanced also gave us possession of stores on which Lee relied. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The train was made up of two carriages, filled with about forty passengers, and seven wagons loaded with stores. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Holmes, however, was always in training, for he had inexhaustible stores of nervous energy upon which to draw. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- No such importation of novelties could enrich their intellectual stores at present. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Up in the top loft of the factory we stored those machines, and at night we put up the benches and got everything all ready. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He therefore concluded that the stored-up fat in the animal was then converted into cream, and that it was practicable, therefore, to convert beef fat into butter fat. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Now he was smitten with compunction, yet irritated that so trifling an omission should be stored up against him after nearly two years of marriage. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The place is stored with great variety of sextants, quadrants, telescopes, astrolabes, and other astronomical instruments. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Hay and straw were stored in that portion of the place, fagots for firing, and a heap of apples in sand. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- After that exhibition we had a house-cleaning at the laboratory, and the metallic-filament lamps were stored away, while preparations were made for our experiments on carbon lamps. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- To the lay mind a storage battery presents itself in the aspect of a device in which electric energy is STORED, just as compressed air is stored or accumulated in a tank. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A silo is a place or receptacle for storing green feed to preserve it for future feeding on the farm. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Man storing graminiferous grasses for his cattle might easily come to beat out the grain for himself. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- With sensitive accumulators of this character hydraulic machinery is much used on board ships for steering them, and for loading, discharging and storing cargoes. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- He was storing his memory with anecdotes and noble names. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- The plant is capable of storing over 1,000,000 tons of material. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It involved storing a great multitude of earthenware tablets in huge earthenware jars. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He found that water had a high capacity for storing up heat, without a corresponding effect on the thermometer. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
Typist: Perry