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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
store
    n 1: a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or
         services; "he bought it at a shop on Cape Cod" [syn:
         shop, store]
    2: a supply of something available for future use; "he brought
       back a large store of Cuban cigars" [syn: store, stock,
       fund]
    3: an electronic memory device; "a memory and the CPU form the
       central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached"
       [syn: memory, computer memory, storage, computer
       storage, store, memory board]
    4: a depository for goods; "storehouses were built close to the
       docks" [syn: storehouse, depot, entrepot, storage,
       store]
    v 1: 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" [syn: store, hive away, lay in,
         put in, salt away, stack away, stash away]
    2: 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"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Store \Store\, n. [OE. stor, stoor, OF. estor, provisions,
   supplies, fr. estorer to store. See Store, v. t.]
   1. 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.
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            The ships are fraught with store of victuals.
                                                  --Bacon.
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            With store of ladies, whose bright eyes
            Rain influence, and give the prize.   --Milton.
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   2. A place of deposit for goods, esp. for large quantities; a
      storehouse; a warehouse; a magazine.
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   3. Any place where goods are sold, whether by wholesale or
      retail; a shop. [U.S. & British Colonies]
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   4. pl. 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.
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            His swine, his horse, his stoor, and his poultry.
                                                  --Chaucer.
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   In store, in a state of accumulation; in keeping; hence, in
      a state of readiness. "I have better news in store for
      thee." --Shak.

   Store clothes, clothing purchased at a shop or store; -- in
      distinction from that which is home-made. [Colloq. U.S.]
      

   Store pay, payment for goods or work in articles from a
      shop or store, instead of money. [U.S.]

   To set store by, to value greatly; to have a high
      appreciation of.

   To tell no store of, to make no account of; to consider of
      no importance.
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   Syn: Fund; supply; abundance; plenty; accumulation;
        provision.

   Usage: Store, Shop. The English call the place where
          goods are sold (however large or splendid it may be) a
          shop, and confine the word store to its original
          meaning; viz., a warehouse, or place where goods are
          stored. In America the word store is applied to all
          places, except the smallest, where goods are sold. In
          some British colonies the word store is used as in the
          United States.
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                In his needy shop a tortoise hung,
                An alligator stuffed, and other skins
                Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves
                A beggarly account of empty boxes. --Shak.
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                Sulphurous and nitrous foam, . . .
                Concocted and adjusted, they reduced
                To blackest grain, and into store conveyed.
                                                  --Milton.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Store \Store\, a.
   Accumulated; hoarded. --Bacon.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Store \Store\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stored; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Storing.] [OE. storen, OF. estorer to construct, restore,
   store, LL. staurare, for L. instaurare to renew, restore; in
   + staurare (in comp.) Cf. Instore, Instaurate, Restore,
   Story a floor.]
   1. To collect as a reserved supply; to accumulate; to lay
      away.
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            Dora stored what little she could save. --Tennyson.
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   2. To furnish; to supply; to replenish; esp., to stock or
      furnish against a future time.
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            Her mind with thousand virtues stored. --Prior.
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            Wise Plato said the world with men was stored.
                                                  --Denham.
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            Having stored a pond of four acres with carps,
            tench, and other fish.                --Sir M. Hale.
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   3. To deposit in a store, warehouse, or other building, for
      preservation; to warehouse; as, to store goods.
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5. The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003)
store
 n.

    [prob.: from techspeak main store] In some varieties of Commonwealth
    hackish, the preferred synonym for core. Thus, bringing a program into
    store means not that one is returning shrink-wrapped software but that a
    program is being swapped in.


6. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018)
store

    In some varieties of Commonwealth hackish, the
   preferred synonym for core.  Thus, "bringing a program into
   store" means that a program is being swapped in from
   backing store to main store.

   [Jargon File]

   (2006-12-06)


7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
STORES. the victuals and provisions collected together for the subsistence 
of a ship's company, of a camp, and the like. 



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