Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
store (verb)transitive verb
1.
- lay away accumulate store vegetables for winter use an organism that absorbs and stores DDT
2.
- furnish supply , especially to stock against a future time - store a ship with provisions
3.
to place or leave in a location (as a warehouse, library, or computer memory) for preservation or later use or disposal
4.
to provide room for - storage hold elevators for storing surplus wheat
1.
a) something that is or kept for future use - stored
b) articles (as of food) accumulated for some specific object and drawn upon as needed - stock supplies
c) something that is accumulated
d) a source from which things may be drawn as needed a reserve fund
2.
- storage usually used with in when placing eggs in store Dublin Sunday Independent
3.
- value importance set great store by a partner's opinion
4.
a large quantity, supply, or number - abundance
5.
a) - storehouse warehouse
b) chiefly British - memory
6.
a business establishment where usually diversified goods are kept for retail sale - a grocery store compare shop
1.
of, relating to, kept in, or used for a store
2.
purchased from a store as opposed to being natural or homemade - manufactured ready-made store clothes store bread
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
store (adjective)made beforehand in large numbers
SYNONIMS:
bought, mass-produced, off-the-peg, off-the-rack, off-the-shelf, store, store-boughtRELATED WORDS:
ready-to-wear; commercial; prefab, prefabricated; hand-me-downNEAR ANTONYMS:
handcrafted, handmade, homemade1.
a collection of things kept available for future use or need
SYNONIMS:
cache, deposit, hoard, reserveRELATED WORDS:
budget, fund, nest egg; armory, arsenal, bank, pool, reservoir, stock, stockpile, supply; accumulation, assemblage, collection, gathering2.
a supply stored up and often hidden away
SYNONIMS:
cache, stash, stockpile, storeRELATED WORDS:
coffers, deposit, funds, nest egg, savings, sinking fund, treasure; inventory, pool, reserve, reservoir, stock; provisions, resources; accumulation, assemblage, collection, gathering, harvest; repertory3.
an establishment where goods are sold to consumers
SYNONIMS:
bazaar, emporium, storeRELATED WORDS:
market, marketplace, outlet, showroom; boutique, chain store, department store, dime store, exchange, five-and-ten ( five-and-dime), mart, mini-mart, thrift shop, variety store; big box, supercenter, superstore4.
a considerable amount
SYNONIMS:
abundance, barrel, basketful, boatload, bucket, bunch, bundle, bushel, carload, chunk, deal, dozen, fistful, gobs, good deal, heap, hundred, lashings ( lashins), loads, mass, mess, mountain, much, multiplicity, myriad, oodles, pack, passel, peck, pile, plateful, plenitude, plentitude, plenty, pot, potful, profusion, quantity, raft, reams, scads, sheaf, shipload, sight, slew, spate, stack, store, ton, truckload, volume, wad, wealth, yardRELATED WORDS:
epidemic, plague, rash; bonanza, embarrassment, excess, overabundance, overage, overkill, overmuch, oversupply, plethora, redundancy, superabundance, superfluity, surfeit, surplus; deluge, flood, overflow; army, bevy, cram, crowd, crush, drove, flock, herd, horde, host, legion, mob, multitude, press, score, sea, swarm, throng; gazillion, jillion, kazillion, million, thousands, trillion, zillionNEAR ANTONYMS:
atom, crumb, dot, fleck, flyspeck, fragment, grain, granule, iota, jot, modicum, molecule, mote, nubbin, particle, ray, scintilla, scrap, shred, tittle, whit; smatter, smattering; dash, drop, morsel, shot; piece, portion, section; absence, dearth, famine, lack, paucity, poverty, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, undersupply, want; deficiency, deficit, inadequacy, insufficiency, meagerness, scantiness, scantness, skimpiness1.
to place somewhere for safekeeping or ready availability
SYNONIMS:
keep, put up, reposit, stowRELATED WORDS:
cellar, garage, hangar, house, warehouse; file, pack, shelve2.
to put (something of future use or value) in a safe or secret place
SYNONIMS:
cache, lay away, lay by, lay in, lay up, put by, salt away, squirrel (away), stash, stockpile, store, stow, treasureRELATED WORDS:
accumulate, acquire, amass, assemble, collect, concentrate, garner, gather, pick up, round up, scrape (together); heap, pile, stack; conserve, husband, preserve; bank, coffer, deposit, hold, keep, reserve, retain, save, set by, stock, withhold; bury, conceal, ensconce, secreteNEAR ANTONYMS:
cast, discard, ditch, dump, fling (off away), jettison, throw away, throw out, unload; consume, squander, use up, waste; hand out, hand over, relinquish, surrender; blow, dissipate, fritter (away), lavish, misspend, run through, spend; deplete, exhaust, expend, impoverish; dispel, disperse, dissipate, scatter