store

From Middle English store, stoure, storre, from Anglo-Norman stor, estore, estorr, estoer, and Old French estour, estor, from Latin instaurare.

• (General American) enPR: stôr, IPA^(key): /stɔɹ/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: stô, IPA^(key): /stɔː/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: stōr, IPA^(key): /sto(ː)ɹ/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /stoə/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
• Homophone: stower (in some accents)

store (plural stores)

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

   This building used to be a store for old tires.

2. A supply held in storage.
   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, II:13:

     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.

   • 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 6, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:

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

   • 2006, Carolly Erickson, The Last Wife of Henry VIII

     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.

3. (mainly North American) A place where items may be purchased; a shop.

   I need to get some milk from the grocery store.

   • 1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 1, in Twelve O'Clock:

     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 […] .”

   • 1948, Carey McWilliams, North from Mexico / The Spanish-Speaking People of The United States, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 75,

     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. (computing, dated) Memory.

   The main store of 1000 36-bit words seemed large at the time.

5. A great quantity or number; abundance.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 37:

     I make my love engrafted to this store.

   • 1645, John Milton, L'Allegro

     With store of Ladies, whose bright eies / Rain influence, and judge the prise / Of Wit, or Arms, while both contend / To win her Grace, whom all commend.

• (supply held in storage): stock, supply
• (place from which items may be purchased): boutique, shop (UK); see also Thesaurus:retail store
• (in computing): memory

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• → Afrikaans: stoor

store (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.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess‎:

     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.

   I'll store these books in the attic.

2. (transitive, computing) To write (something) into memory or registers.

   This operation stores the result on the stack.

3. (intransitive) To remain in good condition while stored.

   I don't think that kind of cheese will store well in the refrigerator.

• store on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• store in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

• Resto, resto, roset, rotes, sorte, tores, torse

store

1. definite of stor
2. plural of stor

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1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of storen

• roest, roste, stoer

Latin storea.

• IPA^(key): /stɔʁ/

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store m (plural stores)

1. blind, shade (for a window)

• “store” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• resto, rotes, sorte, tores, torse

store f (5th declension)

1. sturgeon

From Anglo-Norman stor, estour, ultimately from Latin instaurare.

• stor, stoure, storre, stour, stoor, stoore

• IPA^(key): /stɔːr/

store (uncountable)

1. supplies, provisions
2. livestock, farm animals
3. (stored) possessions, savings
4. collection, storage
5. storehouse, storeroom
6. value, importance

• English: store
  • → Afrikaans: stoor
• Scots: store

• “stōr(e (n.(1))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.

From Old English stōr and Old Norse stórr, from Proto-Germanic *stōraz; some forms are also influenced by Middle Dutch stuur.

• stoor, stour, stur, sture, storre, stowre, stoore, stoure

• IPA^(key): /stoːr/, /stuːr/, /stɔːr/

store

1. strong, powerful, intense
2. violent, threatening, imposing
3. stern, sharp, harsh
4. numerous, large in number
5. large, big, great
6. coarse, rough

• English: stoor, stour (archaic)
• Scots: stour, stoure, sture, stoor, stoar

• “stọ̄r(e (adj.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.

store

1. violently, threateningly, imposingly
2. sternly, sharply, harshly

• “stọ̄re (adv.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.

From Old English stōr; possibly from a Celtic language.

• stor, stoure

• IPA^(key): /stoːr/

store

1. incense, frankincense, storax

• “stọ̄r(e (n.(2))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.

store

1. singular definite of stor
2. plural of stor

store

1. singular definite of stor
2. plural of stor

store

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of stor.