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Store and Reserve Definitions

Store

A place where merchandise is offered for sale; a shop.

Reserve

To keep back, as for future use or for a special purpose
The hospital reserves certain drugs for the most serious cases.

Store

A stock or supply reserved for future use
A squirrel's store of acorns.

Reserve

To set or cause to be set apart for a particular person or use
Reserved a seat on the next flight out.

Store

Stores Supplies, especially of food, clothing, or arms.
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Reserve

Something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose
A runner with a reserve of energy for the final lap.

Store

A place where commodities are kept; a warehouse or storehouse.

Reserve

An amount of capital that is not invested or otherwise used in order to meet probable demands, such as withdrawals by bank depositors or claims on insurance policies.

Store

A great quantity or number; an abundance.

Reserve

Lack of enthusiasm, as from a misgiving or doubt
Supported the idea without reserve.
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Store

To reserve or put away for future use.

Reserve

Self-restraint in expression or bearing; reticence or coolness
Maintained a dignified reserve throughout the ceremony.

Store

To fill, supply, or stock.

Reserve

A reservation of public land
A forest reserve.

Store

To deposit or receive in a storehouse or warehouse for safekeeping.

Reserve

An amount of a mineral, fossil fuel, or other resource known to exist in a particular location and to be exploitable
The discovery of large oil reserves.

Store

(Computers) To copy (data) into memory or onto a storage device, such as a hard disk.

Reserve

A fighting force kept uncommitted until strategic need arises.

Store

A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.
This building used to be a store for old tires.

Reserve

The part of a country's armed forces not on active duty but subject to call in an emergency.

Store

A supply held in storage.

Reserve

A member of either of these forces
The army's active reserves.

Store

(mainly North American) A place where items may be purchased; a shop.
I need to get some milk from the grocery store.

Reserve

A group of players that play only as substitutes for starters in games or are kept from playing for some reason.

Store

Memory.
The main store of 1000 36-bit words seemed large at the time.

Reserve

One of these players.

Store

A great quantity or number; abundance.

Reserve

Held in or forming a reserve
A reserve supply of food.

Store

A head of store cattle (feeder cattle to be sold to others for finishing); a store cattle beast.

Reserve

(behaviour) Restriction.

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.

Reserve

The act of reserving or keeping back; reservation; exception.
The book is on reserve.

Store

Contain.
The cabinets store all the food the mice would like.

Reserve

Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior.

Store

Have the capacity and capability to contain.
They sell boxes that store 24 mason jars.

Reserve

That which is reserved or kept back, as for future use.

Store

To write (something) into memory or registers.
This operation stores the result on the stack.

Reserve

A natural resource known to exist but not currently exploited.
New oil reserves are continuously being discovered, but not as fast as the existing ones are running out.

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.

Reserve

A tract of land reserved, or set apart, for a particular purpose
The Connecticut Reserve in Ohio was originally set apart for the school fund of Connecticut.
The Clergy Reserves in Canada are for the support of the clergy.

Store

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

Reserve

(Canada) A tract of land set apart for the use of an Aboriginal group; Indian reserve (compare US reservation.)

Store

Any place where goods are sold, whether by wholesale or retail; a shop.

Reserve

(military) A body of troops kept in the rear of an army drawn up for battle, reserved to support the other lines as occasion may require; a force or body of troops kept for an exigency.

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.

Reserve

Funds kept on hand to meet planned or unplanned financial requirements.

Store

Accumulated; hoarded.

Reserve

A reserve price in an auction.

Store

To collect as a reserved supply; to accumulate; to lay away.
Dora stored what little she could save.

Reserve

Wine held back and aged before being sold.

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.

Reserve

(ceramics) Absence of color or decoration; the state of being left plain.

Store

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

Reserve

(social) Something initially kept back for later use in a recreation.

Store

A mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services;
He bought it at a shop on Cape Cod

Reserve

(sports) A member of a team who does not participate from the start of the game, but can be used to replace tired or injured team-mates.

Store

A supply of something available for future use;
He brought back a large store of Cuban cigars

Reserve

(card games) A group or pile of cards dealt out at the beginning of a patience or solitaire game to be used during play.

Store

An electronic memory device;
A memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached

Reserve

In exhibitions, a distinction indicating that the recipient will get a prize in the event of another person being disqualified.

Store

A depository for goods;
Storehouses were built close to the docks

Reserve

(calico printing) A resist.

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

Reserve

A preparation used on an object being electroplated to fix the limits of the deposit.

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

Reserve

To keep back; to retain.
We reserve the right to make modifications.

Reserve

To keep in store for future or special use.
This cake is reserved for the guests!

Reserve

To book in advance; to make a reservation.
I reserved a table for us at the best restaurant in town.

Reserve

(obsolete) To make an exception of; to except.

Reserve

To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose.

Reserve

Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain; to make a reservation{7}.
Hast thou seen the treasures of the hail, which I have reserved against the time of trouble?
Reserve your kind looks and language for private hours.

Reserve

To make an exception of; to except.

Reserve

The act of reserving, or keeping back; reservation.
However any one may concur in the general scheme, it is still with certain reserves and deviations.

Reserve

That which is reserved, or kept back, as for future use.
The virgins, besides the oil in their lamps, carried likewise a reserve in some other vessel for a continual supply.

Reserve

That which is excepted; exception.
Each has some darling lust, which pleads for a reserve.

Reserve

Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior.
My soul, surprised, and from her sex disjoined,Left all reserve, and all the sex, behind.
The clergyman's shy and sensitive reserve had balked this scheme.

Reserve

A tract of land reserved, or set apart, for a particular purpose; as, the Connecticut Reserve in Ohio, originally set apart for the school fund of Connecticut; the Clergy Reserves in Canada, for the support of the clergy.

Reserve

A body of troops in the rear of an army drawn up for battle, reserved to support the other lines as occasion may require; a force or body of troops kept for an exigency.

Reserve

Funds kept on hand to meet liabilities.

Reserve

That part of the assets of a bank or other financial institution specially kept in cash in a more or less liquid form as a reasonable provision for meeting all demands which may be made upon it;

Reserve

In exhibitions, a distinction which indicates that the recipient will get a prize if another should be disqualified.

Reserve

A resist.

Reserve

A preparation used on an object being electroplated to fix the limits of the deposit.

Reserve

Formality and propriety of manner

Reserve

Something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose

Reserve

An athlete who plays only when another member of the team drops out

Reserve

(medicine) potential capacity to respond in order to maintain vital functions

Reserve

A district that is reserved for particular purpose

Reserve

Armed forces that are not on active duty but can be called in an emergency

Reserve

The trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary

Reserve

Hold back or set aside, especially for future use or contingency;
They held back their applause in anticipation

Reserve

Give or assign a share of money or time to a particular person or cause;
I will earmark this money for your research

Reserve

Obtain or arrange (for oneself) in advance;
We managed to reserve a table at Maxim's

Reserve

Arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance;
Reserve me a seat on a flight
The agent booked tickets to the show for the whole family
Please hold a table at Maxim's

Reserve

Not engaged in military action

Reserve

Kept in reserve especially for emergency use;
A reserve supply of food
A spare tire
Spare parts

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