English Dictionary
◊ STORE
store
adj : purchased; not homemade; "my boughten clothes"; "store
teeth"; "store bread"; "a store-bought dress" [syn: {boughten},
{store-bought}]
n 1: a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or
services; "he bought it at a shop on Cape Cod" [syn: {shop}]
2: a supply of something available for future use; "he brought
back a large store of Cuban cigars" [syn: {stock}, {fund}]
3: an electronic memory device; "a memory and the CPU form the
central part of a computer to which peripherals are
attached" [syn: {memory}, {storage}, {memory board}]
4: a depository for goods; "storehouses were built close to the
docks" [syn: {storehouse}, {depot}, {entrepot}, {storage}]
5: depositing in a warehouse [syn: {repositing}, {reposition},
{storing}, {warehousing}]
v 1: lay away for future use [syn: {hive away}, {lay in}, {put in},
{salt away}, {stack away}, {stash away}]
2: provide storage for or keep in storage
3: put away for storage; "where should we stow the vegetables
for the winter?" [syn: {stow}, {garner}]
English Computing Dictionary
◊ STORE
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 {swap}ped
in.
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