meaning of store
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.
2. A place of deposit for goods, esp. for large quantities; a storehouse; a warehouse; a magazine.
3. Any place where goods are sold, whether by wholesale or retail; a shop.
4. 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.
5. Accumulated; hoarded.
6. To collect as a reserved supply; to accumulate; to lay away.
7. To furnish; to supply; to replenish; esp. , to stock or furnish against a future time.
8. To deposit in a store, warehouse, or other building, for preservation; to warehouse; as, to store goods.
9. store [probably from "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. [Jargon File] store and forward
10. an electronic memory device; "a memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are
">attached"
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