Stored
[stor]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Store
(a.) Collected or accumulated as a reserve supply; as, stored electricity.
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Examples
- 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.
- After cooling, the pigs are broken apart and stored. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It contained a bookcase: I soon possessed myself of a volume, taking care that it should be one stored with pictures. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Something in his prompt acquiescence frightened her; she felt behind it the stored force of a patience that might subdue the strongest will. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Jo quite glowed with pleasure at this boyish praise of her sister, and stored it up to repeat to Meg. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- In their Vatican is stored up all that is curious and beautiful in art; in our Patent Office is hoarded all that is curious or useful in mechanics. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- They got in far enough to be out of the weather, and stored wood and food in odd corners. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Our habitations were palaces our food was ready stored in granaries--there was no need of labour, no inquisitiveness, no restless desire to get on. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- But he shook his head and said nothing as he stored it all away for some time in the future. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- But in an advanced culture much which has to be learned is stored in symbols. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He stored my mind with its first treasures, and stamped his character upon them all. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Their grain they roasted, ground between stones and stored in pots, to be eaten when needed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- All of these make good silage when properly harvested and stored. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I do not want this material to be stored too far from the bridge. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- In the beginning, the earth was stored with water just as it was with metal, rock, etc. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The energy of the gunpowder has been scattered, but the sum of the various forms of energy is equal to the energy originally stored away in the powder. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Such flat disc records give quite loud reproductions, are not easily destroyed, and may be compactly stored and transported. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Will Miss Amy ride in her coop (coupe), and use all them lovely silver dishes that's stored away over yander? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- When finished, the busts were put on a table in the passage to dry, and afterwards stored. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- This sand was transported automatically by belt conveyors to the rear of the works to be stored and sold. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- They are then sent to the shipping department to be shipped immediately or stored in one of the spacious storehouses. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- From this point the chassis moves under the bridge upon which are stored the radiators, which have been delivered by a belt conveyor. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Many cooking operations which are performed in ordinary ovens with the burners on, can be prepared in this particular style of oven by using stored heat for the last half of the operation. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It is stored under a pressure sometimes as high as 150 pounds to the inch, its pressure being reduced at the burners through the agency of pressure regulators. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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