Definition of "store"

store

/stɔɹ/

noun
plural stores
1. A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.
2. A supply held in storage.
  Quotations
  But there was an infinite store of mercy in those eyes, for him too a word of pardon even though he had erred and sinned and wandered.
  1922 February, James Joyce, “”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […]
  By late summer a sufficient store of stone had accumulated, and then the building began […] , under the superintendence of the pigs.
  1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 6, in Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg
  What surprised us all was how Will's lighthearted nature and constant store of good humor won over one of the great heiresses of King Henry's court, Anne Bourchier.
  2006, Carolly Erickson, The Last Wife of Henry VIII
3. (mainly North American) A place where items may be purchased; a shop.
  Quotations
  There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. “Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store, an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up […] .”
  1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 1, in Twelve O'Clock
  In 1866 Colonel J. F. Meline noted that the rebozo had almost disappeared in Santa Fe and that hoop skirts, on sale in the stores, were being widely used.
  1948, Carey McWilliams, North from Mexico: The Spanish-Speaking People of The United States, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 75
4. (computing, dated) Memory.
5. A great quantity or number; abundance.
  Quotations
  I make my love engrafted to this store.
  1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 37”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley
  With store of Ladies, whose bright eiesRain influence, and judge the priseOf Wit, or Arms, while both contendTo win her Grace, whom all commend.
  a. 1645, John Milton, “L’Allegro”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646
6. A head of store cattle (feeder cattle to be sold to others for finishing); a store cattle beast.
verb
third-person singular simple present stores, present participle storing, simple past and past participle stored
1. (transitive) To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose.
  Quotations
  The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.
  1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess‎
2. Contain.
3. Have the capacity and capability to contain.
4. (transitive, computing) To write (something) into memory or registers.
5. (transitive) To stock, to fill (a container, repository, etc.) with things.
  Quotations
  I have eaten my fill, and had my pockets well stored.
  1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 8, page 244

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