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Warehouse vs. Store

Warehouse and Store Definitions

Warehouse

A place in which goods or merchandise are stored; a storehouse.

Store

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

Warehouse

A large, usually wholesale shop.

Store

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

Warehouse

To place or store in a warehouse, especially in a bonded or government warehouse.

Store

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

To institutionalize (a person) in usually deficient housing and in conditions in which medical, educational, psychiatric, and social services are below par or absent
"has felt forced to warehouse hundreds of children in temporary shelters" (Justine Wise Polier).

Store

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

Warehouse

A place for storing large amounts of products. In logistics, a place where products go to from the manufacturer before going to the retailer.

Store

A great quantity or number; an abundance.

Warehouse

(transitive) To store in a warehouse or similar.

Store

To reserve or put away for future use.
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Warehouse

(transitive) To confine (a person) to an institution for a long period.

Store

To fill, supply, or stock.

Warehouse

To acquire and then shelve, simply to prevent competitors from acquiring it.
The warehousing of syndicated TV shows

Store

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

Warehouse

A storehouse for wares, or goods.

Store

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

To deposit or secure in a warehouse.

Store

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

Warehouse

To place in the warehouse of the government or customhouse stores, to be kept until duties are paid.

Store

A supply held in storage.

Warehouse

A storehouse for goods and merchandise

Store

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

Warehouse

Store in a warehouse

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

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