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Store

noun

A mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services. Synonym: shop.

A supply of something available for future use. Synonyms: fund, stock.

An electronic memory device. Synonyms: computer memory, computer storage, memory, memory board, storage.

A depository for goods. Synonyms: depot, entrepot, storage, storehouse.

verb

(past & past part. stored; pres. part. storing)

Keep or lay aside for future use. Synonyms: hive away, lay in, put in, salt away, stack away, stash away. "The bear stores fat for the period of hibernation when he doesn't eat"

Find a place for and put away for storage. "I couldn't store all the books in the attic so I sold some"

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... years ago, in Calcutta, I learned that a large store of charcoal existed under the soil of Fort William, deposited there, I believe, in the early ...

— The Travels of Marco Polo Volume 1 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa

... expanse of sea, a long stretch of shore, and the pleasantest villas of the neighbourhood. There is also a second tower, containing a bedroom which gets the sun morning and evening, and a spacious wine cellar and store-room at the back of it. On the floor beneath is a sitting-room where, even when the sea is stormy, you hear the roar and thunder only in subdued and dying murmurs. It looks out upon the exercise ground, ...

— The Letters of the Younger Pliny - Title: The Letters of Pliny the Younger - - Series 1, Volume 1 • Pliny the Younger

... find a place for him in a store in New Orleans, where the yellow fever will make an end of ...

— Seek and Find - or The Adventures of a Smart Boy • Oliver Optic

... Marius directed his utmost efforts to take.[270] But his views were furthered more by fortune than by his own contrivance. In the fortress there were plenty of men and arms for its defense, as well as an abundant store of provisions, and a spring of water; while its situation was unfavorable for raising mounds, towers, and other works; and the road to it, used by its inhabitants, was extremely steep, with a precipice on either side. The vineae were brought up with great danger, and without effect; for, ...

— Conspiracy of Catiline and The Jurgurthine War • Sallust

... was what the man himself saw in store, for at forty-six he wrote a book on science, setting forth his ideas and making accurate prophecies as to what would yet be brought about. He regrets that a multiplicity of duties and failing health forbid his carrying out his plans, and further ...

— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 • Elbert Hubbard

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