store

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A place where merchandise is offered for sale; a shop.
2. n. A stock or supply reserved for future use: a squirrel's store of acorns.
3. n. Supplies, especially of food, clothing, or arms.
4. n. A place where commodities are kept; a warehouse or storehouse.
5. n. A great quantity or number; an abundance.
6. v. To reserve or put away for future use.
7. v. To fill, supply, or stock.
8. v. To deposit or receive in a storehouse or warehouse for safekeeping.
9. v. Computer Science To copy (data) into memory or onto a storage device, such as a hard disk.
10. idiom. in store Forthcoming: great trouble in store for her.
11. idiom. in store In reserve; stored.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. A Middle English form of stoor.
2. A Middle English form of stoor.
3. To provide; furnish; supply; equip; outfit.
4. To stock with provisions; provision: replenish.
5. To deposit in a store or warehouse for preservation or safe-keeping; warehouse.
6. To lay up in reserve; accumulate; hoard: often with up.
7. To restore.
8. n. That which is provided or furnished for use as needed; a stock accumulated as for future use; a supply; a hoard; specifically, in the plural, articles, particularly of food, accumulated for a specific object; supplies, as of food, ammunition, arms, or clothing: as, military or naval stores; the winter stores of a family.
9. n. Hence A great quantity; a large number; abundance; plenty: used with, or archaically without, the indefinite article.
10. n. A place where supplies, as provisions, ammunition, arms, clothing, or goods of any kind. are kept for future use or distribution; a storehouse; a warehouse; a magazine.
11. n. Hence A place where goods are kept for sale by either wholesale or retail; a shop: as, a book-store; a dry-goods store. See note under shop, 2.
12. Hoarded; laid up: as, store linen; store fruit.
13. Containing stores; set apart for receiving stores or supplies. Compare store-city.
14. Obtained at a store or shop; purchased or purchasable at a shop or store: as, store clothes; store teeth (humorously used for false teeth). This word in rural or frontier use is commonly opposed to home-made, and implies preference: as, stylish store curtains; in town use it is usually opposed to made to order, and implies disparagement: as, clumsy store boots. [Colloq., U. S.]
15. n. A Middle English form of stour.
16. n. A window-shade: the French term used in English for such a shade when of decorative character, especially when of French manufacture.
17. n. An animal bought to be fattened for the market; store cattle.

Wiktionary

1. n. A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.
2. n. A supply held in storage.
3. n. A place where items may be purchased.
4. n. Memory.
5. v. To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose.
6. v. Write (something) into memory or registers.
7. v. To remain in good condition while stored.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. 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. n. A place of deposit for goods, esp. for large quantities; a storehouse; a warehouse; a magazine.
3. n. Any place where goods are sold, whether by wholesale or retail; a shop.
4. n. Articles, especially of food, accumulated for some specific object; supplies, as of provisions, arms, ammunition, and the like.
5. adj. Accumulated; hoarded.
6. v. To collect as a reserved supply; to accumulate; to lay away.
7. v. To furnish; to supply; to replenish; esp., to stock or furnish against a future time.
8. v. To deposit in a store, warehouse, or other building, for preservation; to warehouse.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a depository for goods
2. v. keep or lay aside for future use
3. n. a supply of something available for future use
4. n. an electronic memory device
5. v. find a place for and put away for storage
6. n. a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services