store.
A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.
Meaning & usage
A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.
This building used to be a store for old tires.
A supply held in storage.
They keep a store of canned goods in their basement.
They could eat from their stores for a month or two if need be.
A building (or portion thereof) where items may be purchased.
Dad went to the store to get milk and bread.
Memory.
The main store of 1000 36-bit words seemed large at the time.
A great quantity or number; abundance.
Ellipsis of store cattle beast: a head of store cattle (feeder cattle to be sold to others for finishing).
heifers and stores
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *steh₂u-ro- Proto-Italic *stauros Latin *staurō Latin īnstaurō Proto-Italic *-āzi ▲ Latin -ereinflu. Latin -āre Latin īnstaurāreder. Anglo-Norman storbor. Middle English store English store Inherited from Middle English store, borrowed from Anglo-Norman stor, from Latin īnstaurāre, from īnstaurō + -āre.
To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose.
I'll store these books in the attic.
To contain.
The cabinets store all the food the mice would like.
Have the capacity and capability to contain.
They sell boxes that store 24 mason jars.
To write (something) into memory or registers.
This operation stores the result on the stack.
To stock, to fill (a container, repository, etc.) with things.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *steh₂u-ro- Proto-Italic *stauros Latin *staurō Latin īnstaurō Proto-Italic *-āzi ▲ Latin -ereinflu. Latin -āre Latin īnstaurāreder. Anglo-Norman storbor. Middle English store English store Inherited from Middle English store, borrowed from Anglo-Norman stor, from Latin īnstaurāre, from īnstaurō + -āre.
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