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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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. [1913 Webster] The ships are fraught with store of victuals. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and give the prize. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. A place of deposit for goods, esp. for large quantities; a storehouse; a warehouse; a magazine. [1913 Webster] 3. Any place where goods are sold, whether by wholesale or retail; a shop. [U.S. & British Colonies] [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] His swine, his horse, his stoor, and his poultry. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] {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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Sulphurous and nitrous foam, . . . Concocted and adjusted, they reduced To blackest grain, and into store conveyed. --Milton. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Store \Store\, a. Accumulated; hoarded. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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. [1913 Webster] Dora stored what little she could save. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] 2. To furnish; to supply; to replenish; esp., to stock or furnish against a future time. [1913 Webster] Her mind with thousand virtues stored. --Prior. [1913 Webster] Wise Plato said the world with men was stored. --Denham. [1913 Webster] Having stored a pond of four acres with carps, tench, and other fish. --Sir M. Hale. [1913 Webster] 3. To deposit in a store, warehouse, or other building, for preservation; to warehouse; as, to store goods. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: 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" From The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) [jargon]: 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 {swap}ped in. From French-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.4 [fd-fra-eng]: store /stɔʀ/ roller-blind