store

Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Origin: OE. stor, stoor, OF. estor, provisions, supplies, fr. estorer to store. See Store, transitive verb

1. 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.

The ships are fraught with store of victuals.— Francis, Baron Verulam Bacon

With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and give the prize.— John Milton

2. A place of deposit for goods, esp. for large quantities; a storehouse; a warehouse; a magazine.

3. Any place where goods are sold, whether by wholesale or retail; a shop. U.S. & British Colonies

4. pl. Articles, especially of food, accumulated for some specific object; supplies, as of provisions, arms, ammunition, and the like; as, the stores of an army, of a ship, of a family.

His swine, his horse, his stoor, and his poultry.— Geoffrey Chaucer

In store, in a state of accumulation; in keeping; hence, in a state of readiness. “I have better news in store for thee.” William Shakespeare — Store clothes, clothing purchased at a shop or store; — in distinction from that which is home-made. Colloq. U.S. — Store pay, payment for goods or work in articles from a shop or store, instead of money. U.S. — To set store by, to value greatly; to have a high appreciation of. — To tell no store of, to make no account of; to consider of no importance.

Synonyms: Fund; supply; abundance; plenty; accumulation; provision. — Store, Shop. The English call the place where goods are sold (however large or splendid it may be) a shop, and confine the word store to its original meaning; viz., a warehouse, or place where goods are stored. In America the word store is applied to all places, except the smallest, where goods are sold. In some British colonies the word store is used as in the United States.

In his needy shop a tortoise hung, An alligator stuffed, and other skins Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves A beggarly account of empty boxes.— William Shakespeare

Sulphurous and nitrous foam,... Concocted and adjusted, they reduced To blackest grain, and into store conveyed.— John Milton

Accumulated; hoarded. Francis, Baron Verulam Bacon

Origin: OE. storen, OF. estorer to construct, restore, store, LL. staurare, for L. instaurare to renew, restore; in + staurare (in comp.) Cf. Instore, Instaurate, Restore, Story a floor.

1. To collect as a reserved supply; to accumulate; to lay away.

Dora stored what little she could save.— Alfred Tennyson

2. To furnish; to supply; to replenish; esp., to stock or furnish against a future time.

Her mind with thousand virtues stored.— Matthew Prior

Wise Plato said the world with men was stored.— Sir John Denham

Having stored a pond of four acres with carps, tench, and other fish.— Sir Matt. Hale

3. To deposit in a store, warehouse, or other building, for preservation; to warehouse; as, to store goods.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

<jargon> In some varieties of Commonwealth hackish, the preferred synonym for core. Thus, "bringing a program into store" means that a program is being swapped in from backing store to main store. [Jargon File]

(2006-12-06)

The Jargon File

[prob.: from techspeak 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 swapped in.