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