Word Finder - store

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A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.

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This building used to be a store for old tires.

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A supply held in storage.

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(mainly North American) A place where items may be purchased; a shop.

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I need to get some milk from the grocery store.

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Memory.

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

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A great quantity or number; abundance.

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To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose.

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I'll store these books in the attic.

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To write (something) into memory or registers.

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This operation stores the result on the stack.

She caught sight of herself in a store window.

I'm surprised the clothing store was open.

We can store it in bottles.

Store fronts interspersed with vacant lots lined one side of the street while the other remained absent of any buildings except a closed gas station and a dollar store.

She said nothing as he disappeared into the house, wondering what surprises he had in store for her.

A lot of store fronts were boarded up.

The feed store lasted into the fifties.

I knew the props were still stored in the same place where I store my seasonal things.

Her father sent her to the store for her own things since she was adopted.

Next Megan took her to what looked like a large drug store, where she plucked a few items from a shelf filled with top of the line skincare products.

You just wait to see what Kris has in store for you.

The woman owned the variety store and was never without a smile and a good word.

He owned a shoe store at one time—back in the seventies, I think.

The top half, which might have identified the date and the store was missing as if the slip had been torn in two.

And when we say, "The Internet is an electronic store," this is true.

Bonaparte himself, not trusting to his generals, moved with all the Guards to the field of battle, afraid of letting a ready victim escape, and Bagration's four thousand men merrily lighted campfires, dried and warmed themselves, cooked their porridge for the first time for three days, and not one of them knew or imagined what was in store for him.

The group lingered, peering into the store to watch the fire and the clerk.

She entered the darkened store while Cora remained outside.

She carried the mug with her down the street to a store that smelled like an attic.

Signs were hung out on all sides to allure him; some to catch him by the appetite, as the tavern and victualling cellar; some by the fancy, as the dry goods store and the jeweller's; and others by the hair or the feet or the skirts, as the barber, the shoemaker, or the tailor.

It made the clothing unit much less intimidating than Romas's lecture on matter and antimatter and how to store the two successfully without blowing up something.

She retrieved her microcomputer with the other hand and checked the supply store she granted the Guardian access to.

We're building a bigger battery to store the energy we generate from the river, but … Kelli shrugged.

He ascended two floors to the hallway where Kris's supplies had been stocked.  He recalled how hard it could be taking care of a helpless creature like Katie or Toby.  He strode to the chamber that had served as a department store full of clothing to Kris's Immortals.  Not surprised to find the chamber ransacked, he sifted through the remaining clothing on the floor.  He guessed Toby's size and stuffed a bag with a few items before going to the food supplies.

We've got a place up in the Poconos we want to store him.

A store clerk rushed to help her.

During the reigns of Ostojic (Stephen IV., 1418-14 21) and Tvrtkovic (Stephen V., 1421-1444) Bosnia was thus left an easy prey to the Turks, who exacted a yearly tribute, after again ravaging the country, and carrying off many thousands of slaves, with a vast store of plunder.

The Arcade, between Euclid and Superior avenues, and the Colonial Arcade, between Euclid and Prospect avenues, are office and retail store buildings worthy of mention.

Having been private secretary for several years to the most successful chief secretary of modern times, he started with a large store of experience, and his appointment was regarded with benignity even by the Nationalists on account of his descent from Lord Edward Fitzgerald.

As the embryo develops it may absorb all the food material available, and store, either in its cotyledons or in its hypocotyl, what is not immediately required for growth, as reserve-food for use in germination, and by so doing it increases in size until it may fill entirely the embryo-sac; or its absorptive power at this stage may be limited to what is necessary for growth and it remains of relatively small size, occupying but a small area of the embryo-sac, which is otherwise filled with endosperm in which the reserve-food is stored.

But it is the biggest, best store ever, where you can buy anything from anywhere, based on reviews by other buyers, at a discount, and have it gift wrapped, engraved, altered, drop-shipped, and probably delivered by tomorrow.

Wise machines are dramatically more valuable than machines that just store and retrieve information.

Up until now, we have thought of the Internet as a place to store information, and we have depended upon search engines to help us find it.

When the reception was over we went back to the hotel and teacher slept quite unconscious of the surprise which was in store for her.

Under the most splendid house in the city is still to be found the cellar where they store their roots as of old, and long after the superstructure has disappeared posterity remark its dent in the earth.

The barberry's brilliant fruit was likewise food for my eyes merely; but I collected a small store of wild apples for coddling, which the proprietor and travellers had overlooked.

Squirrels and wild mice disputed for my store of nuts.

And as if afraid of wasting his store of anger, he left Alpatych and went rapidly forward.

Sauces, spices and merchandising paraphernalia can be purchased at the restaurant's on-premise store.

Fritz is down to the store gettin' supplies, and Davis is sleepin' in the hotel.

It was after the Firestone store closed—I remember Ed complaining about that.

No. It was like they came in it from the store but a different kind of package.

Jackson stopped by the art supply store on the way home to purchase supplies for Elisabeth.

Only Sackler and Dean of the Parkside crew would know the new location where the Feds would store Baratto until they figured out what to do with him more permanently.

Of course, she was spending it on things for him – going to the store for him in the car he purchased...

I'm glad you went to the store.

I'll give you the money and you can shop in a men's store while I shop for my things.

The goddess Irnina (a form of Ishtar, q.v.) in revenge kills Eabani, and the balance of the epic is taken up with Gilgamesh's lament for his friend, his wanderings in quest of a remote ancestor, Ut-Napishtim, from whom he hopes to learn how he may escape the fate of Eabani, and his finally learning from his friend of the sad fate in store for all mortals except the favourites of the god, like Ut-Napishtim, to whom immortal life is vouchsafed as a special boon.

The outbreak of the American War put a stop to the trade of his master, and he thereupon left Salem and went to Boston, where he engaged himself as assistant in another store.

Each has its independent occasion, purpose, character and method; but they draw largely on a common store of thought and use common means of expression.