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Store

noun

A mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services. Synonym: shop.

A supply of something available for future use. Synonyms: fund, stock.

An electronic memory device. Synonyms: computer memory, computer storage, memory, memory board, storage.

A depository for goods. Synonyms: depot, entrepot, storage, storehouse.

verb

(past & past part. stored; pres. part. storing)

Keep or lay aside for future use. Synonyms: hive away, lay in, put in, salt away, stack away, stash away. "The bear stores fat for the period of hibernation when he doesn't eat"

Find a place for and put away for storage. "I couldn't store all the books in the attic so I sold some"

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... have a sense that she was being treated like one whose accomplishments were to be ready on demand. And whatever reverence could be shown to woman, he was bent on showing to this girl. Why? He gave himself several good reasons; but whatever one does with a strong unhesitating outflow of will has a store of motive that it would be hard to put into words. Some deeds seem little more than interjections which give vent to the long passion ...

— Daniel Deronda • George Eliot

... deportment, were concealed a fertile invention and a keen sense of the ridiculous. She had not, it is true, an eye for the fine shades of character. But every marked peculiarity instantly caught her notice and remained engraven on her imagination. Thus, while still a girl, she had laid up such a store of materials for fiction as few of those who mix much in the world are able to accumulate during a long life. She had watched and listened to people of every class, from princes and great officers of state down to artists living in garrets, and poets familiar with subterranean cookshops. ...

— Critical and Historical Essays Volume 2 • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... unfortunate as to be run over by a stage. There was nothing external to indicate the extent of his injuries, and as I drew nearer two persons assisted him to his feet and began to lead him toward the nearest store. Having nothing better to do I walked along with them, and after they had gone inside remained looking curiously through the window. While I was thus engaged a stout, bustling man of about forty years ...

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