store
A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.
Noun 4 meanings
A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.
“Near-synonyms: storeroom, stockroom, warehouse, magazine (archaic)”
A supply held in storage.
“Near-synonyms: stock, supply; cache, stash”
A building (or portion thereof) where items may be purchased.
“Dad went to the store to get milk and bread.”
Memory.
“The main store of 1000 36-bit words seemed large at the time.”
Verb 4 meanings
To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose.
“I'll store these books in the attic.”
To contain.
“The cabinets store all the food the mice would like.”
Have the capacity and capability to contain.
“They sell boxes that store 24 mason jars.”
To write (something) into memory or registers.
“This operation stores the result on the stack.”
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English store, borrowed from Anglo-Norman stor, from Latin īnstaurāre, from īnstaurō + -āre.
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STORE at a glance
STORE has 5 letters and scores 5 points in Scrabble (S 1 + T 1 + O 1 + R 1 + E 1) and 5 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #991 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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