store

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

stores

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)

store

past (v2)

stored

past participle (v3)

stored

present participle

storing

3rd person singular

stores

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.

   • This building used to be a store for old tires.

2. 2.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.
   • By late summer a sufficient store of stone had accumulated, and then the building began[…], under the superintendence of the pigs.

3. 3.A building (or portion thereof) where items may be purchased.

   • Dad went to the store to get milk and bread.
   • 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.

4. 4.A great quantity or number; abundance.

   • I make my love engrafted to this store.

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1. 1.To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose.

   • I'll store these books in the attic.
   • Following allocation to Toton on January 1 1996, it stayed there until transferral to Crewe in November 2000, before being stored at Eastleigh on December 17 the same year.

2. 2.To contain.

   • The cabinets store all the food the mice would like.

3. 3.Have the capacity and capability to contain.

   • They sell boxes that store 24 mason jars.

4. 4.To write (something) into memory or registers.

   • This operation stores the result on the stack.

Overall

Common· #759

By learning goal

Everyday conversation

Uncommon

General reading & writing

Common

Academic

Rare

Literature

Rare

Synonyms

• shop

Word family

• restore