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store
     n 1: a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or
          services; "he bought it at a shop on Cape Cod" [syn: {shop}]
     2: a supply of something available for future use; "he brought
        back a large store of Cuban cigars" [syn: {stock}, {fund}]
     3: an electronic memory device; "a memory and the CPU form the
        central part of a computer to which peripherals are
        attached" [syn: {memory}, {computer memory}, {storage}, {computer
        storage}, {memory board}]
     4: a depository for goods; "storehouses were built close to the
        docks" [syn: {storehouse}, {depot}, {entrepot}, {storage}]
     v 1: 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" [syn: {hive away}, {lay
          in}, {put in}, {salt away}, {stack away}, {stash away}]
     2: 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"
Source: WordNet® 2.0


store n. [prob. from techspeak `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 {swap}ped in.


Source: The Jargon File


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