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Stores

A place where merchandise is offered for sale; a shop.

Store

A place where merchandise is offered for sale; a shop.

Stores

A stock or supply reserved for future use
A squirrel's store of acorns.

Store

A stock or supply reserved for future use
A squirrel's store of acorns.

Stores

Stores Supplies, especially of food, clothing, or arms.
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Store

Stores Supplies, especially of food, clothing, or arms.

Stores

A place where commodities are kept; a warehouse or storehouse.

Store

A place where commodities are kept; a warehouse or storehouse.

Stores

A great quantity or number; an abundance.

Store

A great quantity or number; an abundance.
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Stores

To reserve or put away for future use.

Store

To reserve or put away for future use.

Stores

To fill, supply, or stock.

Store

To fill, supply, or stock.

Stores

To deposit or receive in a storehouse or warehouse for safekeeping.

Store

To deposit or receive in a storehouse or warehouse for safekeeping.

Stores

(Computers) To copy (data) into memory or onto a storage device, such as a hard disk.

Store

(Computers) To copy (data) into memory or onto a storage device, such as a hard disk.

Stores

Plural of store

Store

A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.
This building used to be a store for old tires.

Store

A supply held in storage.

Store

(mainly North American) A place where items may be purchased; a shop.
I need to get some milk from the grocery store.

Store

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

Store

A great quantity or number; abundance.

Store

A head of store cattle (feeder cattle to be sold to others for finishing); a store cattle beast.

Store

(transitive) To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose.
I'll store these books in the attic.

Store

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

Store

Have the capacity and capability to contain.
They sell boxes that store 24 mason jars.

Store

To write (something) into memory or registers.
This operation stores the result on the stack.

Store

That which is accumulated, or massed together; a source from which supplies may be drawn; hence, an abundance; a great quantity, or a great number.
The ships are fraught with store of victuals.
With store of ladies, whose bright eyesRain influence, and give the prize.

Store

A place of deposit for goods, esp. for large quantities; a storehouse; a warehouse; a magazine.

Store

Any place where goods are sold, whether by wholesale or retail; a shop.

Store

Articles, especially of food, accumulated for some specific object; supplies, as of provisions, arms, ammunition, and the like; as, the stores of an army, of a ship, of a family.
His swine, his horse, his stoor, and his poultry.
In his needy shop a tortoise hung,An alligator stuffed, and other skinsOf ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelvesA beggarly account of empty boxes.
Sulphurous and nitrous foam, . . . Concocted and adjusted, they reducedTo blackest grain, and into store conveyed.

Store

Accumulated; hoarded.

Store

To collect as a reserved supply; to accumulate; to lay away.
Dora stored what little she could save.

Store

To furnish; to supply; to replenish; esp., to stock or furnish against a future time.
Her mind with thousand virtues stored.
Wise Plato said the world with men was stored.
Having stored a pond of four acres with carps, tench, and other fish.

Store

To deposit in a store, warehouse, or other building, for preservation; to warehouse; as, to store goods.

Store

A mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services;
He bought it at a shop on Cape Cod

Store

A supply of something available for future use;
He brought back a large store of Cuban cigars

Store

An electronic memory device;
A memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached

Store

A depository for goods;
Storehouses were built close to the docks

Store

Keep or lay aside for future use;
Store grain for the winter
The bear stores fat for the period of hibernation when he doesn't eat

Store

Find a place for and put away for storage;
Where should we stow the vegetables?
I couldn't store all the books in the attic so I sold some

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