| Noun | 1. | store - a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services; "he bought it at a shop on Cape Cod" Synonyms: shop |
| 2. | store - a supply of something available for future use; "he brought back a large store of Cuban cigars" | |
| 3. | store - an electronic memory device; "a memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached" | |
| 4. | store - a depository for goods; "storehouses were built close to the docks" | |
| Verb | 1. | 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" |
| 2. | 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" |
| store - [probably from "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. |
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