Boutique vs. Store: What's the Difference?
Boutique and Store Definitions
Boutique
A small retail shop that specializes in gifts, fashionable clothes, accessories, or food, for example.
Store
A place where merchandise is offered for sale; a shop.
Boutique
A small shop located within a large department store or supermarket.
Store
A stock or supply reserved for future use
A squirrel's store of acorns.
Boutique
A small business offering specialized products and services
An investment boutique.
A health-care boutique.
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Store
Stores Supplies, especially of food, clothing, or arms.
Boutique
A small shop, especially one that sells fashionable clothes, jewelry and the like.
Store
A place where commodities are kept; a warehouse or storehouse.
Boutique
A small shop located within a larger one.
Store
A great quantity or number; an abundance.
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Boutique
(film) A film production company making only a few movies per year.
Store
To reserve or put away for future use.
Boutique
Any company specializing in bespoke or custom-made products or services for clientele in a niche market.
A boutique software consultancy
Store
To fill, supply, or stock.
Boutique
A shop that sells women's clothes and jewelry
Store
To deposit or receive in a storehouse or warehouse for safekeeping.
Store
(Computers) To copy (data) into memory or onto a storage device, such as a hard disk.
Store
A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.
This building used to be a store for old tires.
Store
A supply held in storage.
Store
(mainly North American) A place where items may be purchased; a shop.
I need to get some milk from the grocery store.
Store
Memory.
The main store of 1000 36-bit words seemed large at the time.
Store
A great quantity or number; abundance.
Store
A head of store cattle (feeder cattle to be sold to others for finishing); a store cattle beast.
Store
(transitive) To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose.
I'll store these books in the attic.
Store
Contain.
The cabinets store all the food the mice would like.
Store
Have the capacity and capability to contain.
They sell boxes that store 24 mason jars.
Store
To write (something) into memory or registers.
This operation stores the result on the stack.
Store
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.
With store of ladies, whose bright eyesRain influence, and give the prize.
Store
A place of deposit for goods, esp. for large quantities; a storehouse; a warehouse; a magazine.
Store
Any place where goods are sold, whether by wholesale or retail; a shop.
Store
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.
In his needy shop a tortoise hung,An alligator stuffed, and other skinsOf ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelvesA beggarly account of empty boxes.
Sulphurous and nitrous foam, . . . Concocted and adjusted, they reducedTo blackest grain, and into store conveyed.
Store
Accumulated; hoarded.
Store
To collect as a reserved supply; to accumulate; to lay away.
Dora stored what little she could save.
Store
To furnish; to supply; to replenish; esp., to stock or furnish against a future time.
Her mind with thousand virtues stored.
Wise Plato said the world with men was stored.
Having stored a pond of four acres with carps, tench, and other fish.
Store
To deposit in a store, warehouse, or other building, for preservation; to warehouse; as, to store goods.
Store
A mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services;
He bought it at a shop on Cape Cod
Store
A supply of something available for future use;
He brought back a large store of Cuban cigars
Store
An electronic memory device;
A memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached
Store
A depository for goods;
Storehouses were built close to the docks
Store
Keep or lay aside for future use;
Store grain for the winter
The bear stores fat for the period of hibernation when he doesn't eat
Store
Find a place for and put away for storage;
Where should we stow the vegetables?
I couldn't store all the books in the attic so I sold some
