warehouse
Noun
(en noun )
A place for storing large amounts of products (wares). In logistics, a place where products go to from the manufacturer before going to the retailer.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Revenge of the nerds
, passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.}}
Derived terms
* warehouseman
Verb
(warehous)
To store, as in a warehouse.
* 1894 , United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance, Opinions of Collectors of Customs Concerning Ad Valorem and Specific Rates of Duty on Imports
- Tobacco, for instance, shrinks materially by frequent reshippings, and as all goods are warehoused as a convenience to importers, duties should be paid on what the importer receives.
To confine people to institutions for long-term periods.
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store
English
Noun
(en noun )
A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.
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A supply held in storage.
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- By late summer a sufficient store of stone had accumulated, and then the building began, under the superintendence of the pigs.
(label) A place where items may be purchased.
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*{{quote-book, year=1899, author=(Stephen Crane)
, title=, chapter=1
, passage=There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. “Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin’ in front of his store , an’ them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot ’em up […].”}}
Memory.
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A large amount of information retained in one’s memory.
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A great quantity or number.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
- With store of ladies, whose bright eyes / Rain influence, and give the prize.
Synonyms
* (supply held in storage) stock, supply
* (place from which items may be purchased) boutique, shop (UK); see also
* (in computing) memory
Derived terms
* company store
* drugstore
* general store
* variety store
* give away the store
* in store
* mind the store
* put store in
* set store by
* storage
* storebought
* storefront
* storehouse
* storekeeper
* storeroom
Verb
(stor)
(transitive) To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 citation
, passage=The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.}}
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(computing) Write (something) into memory or registers.
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(intransitive) To remain in good condition while stored.
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Derived terms
* store away
* store up
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