Warehouse
['weəhaʊs] or ['wɛrhaʊs]
Definition
(noun.) a storehouse for goods and merchandise.
(verb.) store in a warehouse.
Typist: Meg--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A storehouse for wares, or goods.
(v. t.) To deposit or secure in a warehouse.
(v. t.) To place in the warehouse of the government or customhouse stores, to be kept until duties are paid.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Store, storehouse, magazine, repository, depot, ENTREPOT.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a warehouse, denotes for you a successful enterprise. To see an empty one, is a sign that you will be cheated and foiled in some plan which you have given much thought and maneuvering.
Checker: Ophelia
Examples
- He has occasion for no machines or instruments of trade, unless his shop or warehouse be considered as such. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But I fancy he dates from his warehouse. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- A widow lady kept the house; she had a daughter, and a maidservant, and a journeyman who attended the warehouse, but lodged abroad. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Mr. Moore haunted his mill, his mill-yard, his dye-house, and his warehouse till the sickly dawn strengthened into day. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The confined room, strong of parchment-grease, is warehouse, counting-house, and copying-office. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Murdstone and Grinby's warehouse was at the waterside. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He always seemed to be uneasy lest anything should be missing from his mental warehouse, and taking stock to assure himself. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It was up three flights of stairs backward, at an Italian warehouse. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The receipts which are given for deposits of gold ducats fall to it yet more frequently, because a higher warehouse rent, or one half per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- You should step into my warehouse yonder, and observe how it is piled to the roof with pieces. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Warehouses were lightened, ships were laden; work abounded, wages rose; the good time seemed come. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- And tell my dear Lydia not to give any directions about her clothes till she has seen me, for she does not know which are the best warehouses. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- But Rome never produced a very considerable industrial population, and her warehouses never rivalled those of Alexandria. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Otis, an American, invented and patented in America and England in 1859 the first approach to the modern passenger elevator for hotels, warehouses, and other structures. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- To-day her piers are deserted, her warehouses are empty, her merchant fleets are vanished, her armies and her navies are but memories. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Their warehouses were the great distributing depots from whence the costly merchandise of the East was sent abroad over Europe. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The closed warehouses and offices have an air of death about them, and the national dread of colour has an air of mourning. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- My brother Sheva, he said, groaning deeply, hath the key of my warehouses. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- A rich man there lived alone in one of the immense mansions which were formerly both dwellings and warehouses. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- As a mere child the busy scenes of the canal and the grain warehouses were of consuming interest, but the work in the ship-building yards had an irresistible fascination. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- They may, however, upon paying certain duties, be imported and warehoused for exportation. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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