Definition of store in English:

store

noun stɔːstɔr

1A quantity or supply of something kept for use as needed.
储备量，储备物；大量，丰富
the squirrel has a store of food
那只松鼠储有大量的食物。
figurative her vast store of knowledge
〈喻〉她渊博的知识。
Example sentencesExamples
- It is the principle of being a medium of exchange and only because of this that secondary functions come into being, such as the role of money as a store of value.
- Mathematics became for me, not a store of past knowledge, but creative activity of the highest form, directed towards the future.
- Over the longer term the dollar's biggest failure has been as a store of value.
- They also had a store of flint which they were able to make fires with.
- Fittingly, this book provides a store of fascinating insights for those who love him, and a supply of brickbats for those who don't.
- I wonder how many homes have a store of plastic bags, also to be seen floating about in the trees and spoiling the landscape.
- A store of timber in Oldham also was available to the local population for building.
- During these five years, the child builds up a store of knowledge about the environment, masters motor skills, and learns to look after itself.
- Memorates and personal narratives are something else, however, and she has a store of such narratives.
- The old fashioned gold standard was that money is a store of wealth not a generator of wealth.
- As a store of pure wisdom, the book is by common agreement unequaled.
- By being people that others respect and admire, we build up a store of power we can use for projects of our own.
- He and his wife laid nets in the lake then to get a store of fish in for the freezer; it was one of the ways they marked the end of winter, and the thaw.
- Money, as a store of value, was an early facilitator of savings and one of the great inventions of mankind.
- Having a good sense of humour doesn't mean you have to have a store of jokes or tell them perfectly.
- Kerr is fortunate to have such a store of commitment at hand.
- It is a good idea to have a store of colostrum in the freezer for back up.
- Most of us carry a store of memories and hopes of beach life, from rock pools and sandcastles to romantic encounters walking along the silver sands on a desert island.
- Here, the dollar is ubiquitous as a store of value, a measure of wealth and a pricing mechanism.
- There is also strong demand for gold bars as a store of value.
Synonyms
supply, stock, stockpile, reserve, cache, hoard, accumulation, cumulation, quantity, pile, heap, load
fund, bank, pool, mine, wealth, deposit, reservoir, inventory, repertoire, repertory
rare amassment
supplies, provisions, stocks, rations, food, foodstuffs
formal comestibles, provender
1. 1.1 A place where things are kept for future use or sale.
  仓库，货栈
  a grain store
  粮仓。
  Example sentencesExamples
  As Ray opened the door to a store of some sort, Rhea saw all of the weapons and armors.
  The service says that there are 384 000 tons in the licensed public stores, grain depositories and the mills.
  The sale includes a shop with floor space of 216 square metres and a store of 12 square metres.
  Synonyms
  storeroom, storehouse, warehouse, repository, depository, entrepôt
  granary, silo
  larder, pantry
  arsenal, armoury
  British historical still room
  archaic garner, spence
2. 1.2stores Supplies of equipment and food kept for use by members of an army, navy, or other institution, or the place where they are kept.
  （陆军、海军等机构的）贮存品，备用品，补给品；贮备库，贮藏库
  cupboards for medical stores
  he keeps the ship's stores
  crates started arriving at the quartermaster's stores
  Example sentencesExamples
  Since building materials had to be shipped to Wewak, the procurement of stores in country proved a major challenge.
  Without them, ammunition, stores, food, and fuel, would not reach the fighting troops.
  On the ship, Debbie was in charge of issuing medical stores, and at home she does a similar job for a chemist.
  Large ships have several ship stores and hundreds of vending machines that are heavily used.
  As soldiers waited for equipment from the stores, the corporal took the spare store key and unlocked the door, finding the storeman's body hanging inside.
  He made a cursory inspection of food stores and water supplies.
  The ship carries provisions and stores for battalion transportation for more than ten days.
  She had visited ten different ports, issued 33,000 tonnes of diesel and aviation fuel and 2,400 tonnes of solid stores and food.
  Alec landed at Anzac Cove in early November, 1915 and assisted in carrying ammunition, stores and water to the trenches.
  The corvette carries water, stores and fuel for an endurance of 14 days.
  Arrangements were made to transfer 150 tonnes of stores to the ship as she transited just north of Darwin.
  After briefings and an exchange of stores, both ships continued their respective courses with a wave and a toot goodbye.
  For Sgt Nathan Walsh, this means stores and equipment from Australia have arrived.
  Spotters were used to transport munitions and stores from storage areas to the flightline when equipment could not be pre-positioned prior to sunset.
  Their main role was to co-ordinate the shipment of American troops, military equipment and stores through the port.
  We relocate Army stores (we call them SSAs-supply support activities) as a matter of routine.
  The supply of stores to the ship, which required a detailed and lengthy programme, is now well under way.
  The four went to Townsville to load vehicles, stores and equipment.
  Flagship HMS Ark Royal sailed on Saturday, and headed for Scotland to take on stores and ammunition before she sails south again.
  The general revealed that the US commandos came across stores of rocket propelled grenades, machine guns and ammunition and destroyed them.
  Synonyms
  provisions, stores, stocks, rations, food, food and drink, foodstuffs, eatables, subsistence, produce, necessities
3. 1.3British A computer memory.
  〈英〉（计算机的）存储器
  Synonyms
  memory bank, cache, disk, ram, rom
2North American A shop of any size or kind.
〈主北美〉商店，店铺
a health-food store
健康食品店。
Example sentencesExamples
- Start with several prefabricated frames - available from art stores - sized to fit the width of the bed.
- You'll find most of these varieties at the grocery store or a gourmet shop.
- Keep an eye out for interesting old clothes items and accessories around the house, on discount racks, and at dollar stores or thrift shops.
- More than 670 galleries, retail stores and museum shops were nominated.
- The franchising business is different than the business of operating stores.
- We have partnered with hair salons, health food stores, restaurants, flower shops, sports stores and other related businesses.
- The store is about 17 times the size of our store for starters, and it's laid out so much better.
- Cinnamon sticks are found at grocery and health-food stores and, often during Christmas, at country gift shops.
- In the 1970s, health-food stores and organic farming were virtually synonymous with the vegetarian diet.
- There are so many new choices in the aisles of health-food stores and even traditional supermarkets that it can be daunting.
- Having worked at both franchised and corporate stores back in my youth, I can tell you that there are two different cultures at work.
- They can be found in nurseries, garden centers, grocery stores, and floral shops in early spring.
- These are available in a wide variety of colors and fonts at office supply stores or model shops.
- The small size of his store makes it impossible for him to stock all the titles.
- Online stores have plus sizes in swimwear from designers that would cost you a fortune at a regular store.
- Sports drinks are easy enough to find, having made their way from health-food and sporting-goods stores to the corner grocery.
- It would help if you had clothes you felt good in, and indeed there are cool clothes available in your size at many stores and online.
- With other grocery stores and major supermarket chains seemingly popping up on every corner, the competition is fierce.
- The first block to be completed houses a grocery store on the ground floor.
- You can get hold of these products from most chemists, health food stores or specialist sports shops.
Synonyms
business, place of business, premises, firm, company, concern, enterprise, venture, organization, operation, undertaking, industry
1. 2.1British A large shop selling different types of goods.
  〈英〉（销售各种不同商品的）大商店
  with modifier DIY stores
  as modifier a store manager
  Example sentencesExamples
  Retailers often experiment by charging different prices at different stores to build up some kind of picture about the relationship between price and volume.
  In my young and impressionable years as a Saturday Sales Assistant in a national chain of shops, my store manager once brought her holiday photos in to work.
  The catalogue store claims sales of over £2 billion annually but does not publish its Irish revenues.
  He is a store manager at a well-known women's clothing shop.
  Whilst walking through town I heard the sound of a bell, and came across a colourful personality who was announcing a sale at a local store.
  Many of his investors hadn't even seen one of his stores, but the sales performance was consistent so they loved them nonetheless.
  Most stores will start their sales after Christmas.
  DIY stores enjoyed bumper sales in June, as people rushed to improve their gardens in the anticipation of a few barbecues while the hot weather lasted.
  Head for Orchard Road where you will find a large selection of malls and stores selling everything from clothes and jewellery to compact disks and cameras.
  And, after weeks of sluggish sales, DIY stores are slashing prices to attract customers.
  Be sharp-of-eye when you are purchasing during sales as some sneaky stores put rails of non-reduced items right next to a rail of rock-bottom priced things.
  A spokeswoman for the company said the future of the store was uncertain at the moment even though planning consent had already been given for it.
  The store sells bargain clothes, toys and household goods but has come under increasing pressure from competitors in the discount market.
  More than 2,000 jobs were saved across the UK when rival retailers moved in to buy 24 of the 45 stores being sold.
  Christmas has come early for thousands of shoppers, with stores launching early sales in a bid to beat off a predicted slump.
  By chance, the following afternoon, I came across some aconites among the potted plants on sale in a DIY store.
  As 700 shopworkers at its 65 nationwide stores faced an uncertain future, it emerged that the boardroom divisions have been bubbling under for months.
  They were told there was no British bacon on offer nor, as far as the sales girl knew, was there any British meat for sale in the store.
  The store will secure the futures of 350 existing workers as well as creating an additional 150 new jobs.
  Staff immediately began putting up sales notices in the store.
  Synonyms
  shop, retail outlet, reseller, department store, chain store, emporium
  supermarket, hypermarket, superstore
  mart
  informal shed
  North American informal big box
2. 2.2British A shop selling basic necessities.
  〈英〉百货商店
  a well-stocked village store
  一个货源充足的乡村百货商店。
3A sheep, steer, cow, or pig acquired or kept for fattening.
待育肥的小羊（或小公牛、小母牛、小猪）
Example sentencesExamples
- Dry cows and heifers will suffer no setback through being indoors for a couple of weeks and next in line would be yearling cattle and forward stores.
- The main changes for stores are with sheep which will be allowed into the market on a special movement licence which has to be obtained from the local trading standards officers.

verb stɔːstɔr

[with object]

1Keep or accumulate (something) for future use.
贮备，储藏，储存
a small room used for storing furniture
用来存放家具的小房间。
Example sentencesExamples
- If using seeds, take care that they are fresh or have been stored carefully in a cool place.
- Vials stored at room temperature remained infectious for fewer than two days.
- Even the biggest bookstores don't have enough room to store a fraction of the new books that wash in and out, like foam on a tide.
- Gareth took note and he took to a search for a suitable island to store his accumulated loot.
- In some of those rooms the bank stored old records but many of the offices were as the occupants had left them.
- Some knick-knacks here and there had been safely stored away in my closet at home.
- Most states took advantage of the boom times to create rainy day funds, storing away the extra cash.
- Fresh calcium carbonate growth solutions were prepared each day and stored in sealed containers.
- The grant was used to purchase a new examination light for the Children's Ward treatment room, plus a new fridge to store vaccinations.
- Clay pots that you'd like to save from cracking and chipping should also be stored where they can remain dry.
- Psychics say storing things causes corresponding accumulations in our bodies - a horrifying thought for hoarders.
- I could remove all the CDs and tapes from my living room and store them away for good.
- There is another memento she keeps safely stored away.
- When stored under ideal conditions, okra seed will remain viable for about five years.
- Food that needs to be kept fresh can be stored in containers too, meaning less plastic wrap or foil is needed.
- A yellow cradle for storing the digital pen is cleverly built into the upper-right corner of the keyboard.
- Other researchers discovered that garlic stores selenium in a form that appears to be most active against cancer.
- Whole papaya will stay fresh for a week when stored in a sealed container in the refrigerator.
- Are you obsessive-compulsive about storing DVDs and CDs?
- High-end mp3 players have monster hard disks up to 60GB in size for storing your entire CD collection.
Synonyms
keep, keep in reserve, stow, stockpile, lay in/aside, set aside, put away, put down, put to one side, deposit, save, hoard, cache
stock up with/on, get in supplies of, collect, gather, accumulate, cumulate, amass
husband, reserve, preserve
informal put away for a rainy day, squirrel away, salt away, stash
put into storage, put in store, stow (away), put away
warehouse
1. 1.1 Retain or enter (information) for future electronic retrieval.
  储存（信息）
  the data is stored on disk
  数据储存在磁盘上。
  Example sentencesExamples
  This information will be stored on a special website so pupils can record and learn about the main issues in recycling and managing waste in the region.
  This information was automatically stored on his hard drive.
  In essence, our whole business is to acquire information that is stored on computers.
  The client software can then be used to keep the information on the handset synchronized with the information stored on the server.
  If the session-saving feature is enabled, the results may also be stored on the server.
  Confidential information should only be stored on computers in a locked room.
  He likened this notion of background knowledge to information stored on the hard disc of a computer.
  In addition to the 90 names and numbers that can be stored on a SIM card, there is space for 500 names in the phonebook.
  Information is stored on the card and updated every time it is used in a transaction.
  Although a real-time link to ground exists, most of the data needs to be stored on hard disk.
  In a digital system, there can be days or even weeks of information stored on a hard drive within the unit itself.
  Interested readers can find much information stored on microfilm in Bolton Central Library Archives.
  As all personal information is stored on the network and not on a device, it is seen as offering a robust security option.
  His details were stored on a database and then six months ago, Charlie was contacted by the trust for further tests.
  Persistent cookies have an expiration date and are stored on a user's hard disk until that date.
  Software will be loaded on a DVD drive and stored on the hard disk, Brown said.
  Computer forensics deals with any and all evidence that is stored on a computer.
  The most important change is to the file system - the way information is stored on the PC.
  In effect, the smaller the magnetic grain, the smaller the bit, the more data that can be stored on a disk.
  In these solutions, confidential information is stored on a secure Web server.
2. 1.2be stored with Have a supply of (something useful)
  存有，装有（有用的东西）
  a mind well stored with esoteric knowledge
  装满深奥学问的头脑。
  Example sentencesExamples
  That means that the filing system in their brains is stored with memories that indicate that even seemingly benign situations can carry some hidden threat.

Phrases

in store

1In a safe place while not being used or displayed.
储藏着；准备着
items held in store
储藏的物品。
Example sentencesExamples
- I am reliably informed however that numerous interesting items from this period are held in store by the museum.
2Coming in the future; about to happen.
将要发生，即将发生
he did not yet know what lay in store for him
他还不知道会有什么事等着他。
Example sentencesExamples
- What that future holds in store for our planet is up to all of us, reasoning together.
- But when we booked the holiday, little did we know what lay in store for us once we arrived.
- He signed a five-year contract last summer but admits he has been left wondering what the future has in store.
- The forum will give people the opportunity to find out more about what could be in store for the future.
- Having played four times already this season, there were few surprises in store for either team.
- For weeks they sweated over their decision, wondering what lay in store for them.
- On stage there was yet another pleasant surprise in store for the audience.
- She used to cry for you, child, because she knew what the future had in store for you.
- We'll just have to see what kind of surprises life has in store for me the next couple of months.
- I am now 60 and I have to start thinking about whatever the future has in store for me.

set (or lay or put) store by (or on)

Consider to be of a particular degree of importance or value.
重视；尊重
many people set much store by privacy
许多人非常重视个人隐私。
Example sentencesExamples
- It is a form that sets store by its use of the demotic, its willingness to locate the sources of poetry defiantly far from the spring on Mount Helicon sacred to the muses.
- There was the marble-topped chiffonier - their mother had set store by it, they could not remember why.
- In today's world of liberalisation and cut-throat competition, everyone sets store by cost effectiveness even in the field of arts.
- We do set store by harmonisation with our European colleagues.
- Coaches have begun to set store by saving runs rather than just scoring them.
- They set store by groundwork and say there is no shortcut to success.
- They may, for instance, have spent their college years as an Eros lover, passionate and quick to get involved, setting store on physical attraction and sexual satisfaction.
Synonyms
value, attach great importance to, put a high value on, put a premium on

Phrasal Verbs

store something up

Create problems for the future by failing to address a particular situation adequately at the time.
they're storing up trouble by denying opportunities to younger players
Example sentencesExamples
- Others feel the entire technology will store up problems for human health in the future.
- Total freedom today would just be a way of running down accumulated social capital and storing up problems for the future.
- What's happening today is storing up major problems for the future.
- Tonight, though, I think bad things may be stored up for the near future.
- As well as inflicting misery on too many victims now, what kind of problems are we storing up for the future? "
- Such action will simply store up fiery resentment which will eventually manifest itself in ever more dangerous ways.
- The internationalisation of Iraq's local conflicts threatens to divide Iraqis further and store up conflict for the future, rather than herald anything like a new era of freedom.
- Gordon Brown is storing up a lot of trouble over public sector pay.
- There is little doubt many of us are storing up problems in our finances for our later years.
- In many ways the territorial settlement which Versailles established stored up problems for the future, not least in its reshaping of Germany.

Derivatives

storable

adjective

Dried plasma was indefinitely storable and far more portable than blood.
Example sentencesExamples
- Because gray squirrels are highly sensitive to the perishability of acorns it was critical to design artificial seeds that were recognized by the animals as potentially storable items.
- They also invented propellant combinations that were robust and storable.
- At that time, temperatures are still relatively mild and there is a rich supply of storable food, such as seeds and nuts.
- By turning grain into spirits, the grain would not be wasted; instead, it was transformed into a storable product that could be transported.

storer

noun

To the right of the vegetable storer, is a silver upright griller, and a new, white, 4 piece toaster, still in its box.
Example sentencesExamples
- I have no evidence that the storage rate for the sailboat is excessive, such as evidence from other storers of lower competitive rates or of a regulated range of rates.
- Moderately damp soil beneath surface stones is both a reasonable heat conductor and a good heat storer, because of the high heat storage capacity of its water content.
- In the 1990s, one commentator presented the idea that archives should move from being a storer of information to a presenter of older information.

Origin

Middle English: shortening of Old French estore (noun), estorer (verb), from Latin instaurare 'renew'; compare with restore.

Rhymes

abhor, adore, afore, anymore, ashore, awe, bandore, Bangalore, before, boar, Boer, bore, caw, chore, claw, cocksure, comprador, cor, core, corps, craw, Delors, deplore, door, draw, drawer, evermore, explore, flaw, floor, for, forbore, fore, foresaw, forevermore, forswore, four, fourscore, furthermore, Gábor, galore, gnaw, gore, grantor, guarantor, guffaw, hard-core, Haugh, haw, hoar, ignore, implore, Indore, interwar, jaw, Johor, Lahore, law, lessor, lor, lore, macaw, man-o'-war, maw, mirador, mor, more, mortgagor, Mysore, nevermore, nor, oar, obligor, offshore, onshore, open-jaw, or, ore, outdoor, outwore, paw, poor, pore, pour, rapport, raw, roar, saw, scaur, score, senhor, señor, shaw, ship-to-shore, shop-floor, shore, signor, Singapore, snore, soar, softcore, sore, spore, straw, swore, Tagore, tau, taw, thaw, Thor, threescore, tor, tore, torr, trapdoor, tug-of-war, two-by-four, underfloor, underscore, war, warrantor, Waugh, whore, withdraw, wore, yaw, yore, your

Definition of store in US English:

store

nounstɔrstôr

1North American A retail establishment selling items to the public.
a health-food store
健康食品店。
Example sentencesExamples
- We have partnered with hair salons, health food stores, restaurants, flower shops, sports stores and other related businesses.
- Keep an eye out for interesting old clothes items and accessories around the house, on discount racks, and at dollar stores or thrift shops.
- The store is about 17 times the size of our store for starters, and it's laid out so much better.
- More than 670 galleries, retail stores and museum shops were nominated.
- It would help if you had clothes you felt good in, and indeed there are cool clothes available in your size at many stores and online.
- The small size of his store makes it impossible for him to stock all the titles.
- Start with several prefabricated frames - available from art stores - sized to fit the width of the bed.
- Having worked at both franchised and corporate stores back in my youth, I can tell you that there are two different cultures at work.
- The first block to be completed houses a grocery store on the ground floor.
- Cinnamon sticks are found at grocery and health-food stores and, often during Christmas, at country gift shops.
- There are so many new choices in the aisles of health-food stores and even traditional supermarkets that it can be daunting.
- The franchising business is different than the business of operating stores.
- In the 1970s, health-food stores and organic farming were virtually synonymous with the vegetarian diet.
- Online stores have plus sizes in swimwear from designers that would cost you a fortune at a regular store.
- You'll find most of these varieties at the grocery store or a gourmet shop.
- Sports drinks are easy enough to find, having made their way from health-food and sporting-goods stores to the corner grocery.
- You can get hold of these products from most chemists, health food stores or specialist sports shops.
- They can be found in nurseries, garden centers, grocery stores, and floral shops in early spring.
- These are available in a wide variety of colors and fonts at office supply stores or model shops.
- With other grocery stores and major supermarket chains seemingly popping up on every corner, the competition is fierce.
Synonyms
business, place of business, premises, firm, company, concern, enterprise, venture, organization, operation, undertaking, industry
1. 1.1as modifier Store-bought.
  there's a loaf of store bread
2A quantity or supply of something kept for use as needed.
储备量，储备物；大量，丰富
the squirrel has a store of food
那只松鼠储有大量的食物。
figurative her vast store of knowledge
〈喻〉她渊博的知识。
Example sentencesExamples
- I wonder how many homes have a store of plastic bags, also to be seen floating about in the trees and spoiling the landscape.
- Money, as a store of value, was an early facilitator of savings and one of the great inventions of mankind.
- As a store of pure wisdom, the book is by common agreement unequaled.
- Over the longer term the dollar's biggest failure has been as a store of value.
- By being people that others respect and admire, we build up a store of power we can use for projects of our own.
- He and his wife laid nets in the lake then to get a store of fish in for the freezer; it was one of the ways they marked the end of winter, and the thaw.
- Having a good sense of humour doesn't mean you have to have a store of jokes or tell them perfectly.
- Most of us carry a store of memories and hopes of beach life, from rock pools and sandcastles to romantic encounters walking along the silver sands on a desert island.
- Here, the dollar is ubiquitous as a store of value, a measure of wealth and a pricing mechanism.
- During these five years, the child builds up a store of knowledge about the environment, masters motor skills, and learns to look after itself.
- A store of timber in Oldham also was available to the local population for building.
- Memorates and personal narratives are something else, however, and she has a store of such narratives.
- Kerr is fortunate to have such a store of commitment at hand.
- Mathematics became for me, not a store of past knowledge, but creative activity of the highest form, directed towards the future.
- It is a good idea to have a store of colostrum in the freezer for back up.
- Fittingly, this book provides a store of fascinating insights for those who love him, and a supply of brickbats for those who don't.
- The old fashioned gold standard was that money is a store of wealth not a generator of wealth.
- It is the principle of being a medium of exchange and only because of this that secondary functions come into being, such as the role of money as a store of value.
- They also had a store of flint which they were able to make fires with.
- There is also strong demand for gold bars as a store of value.
Synonyms
supply, stock, stockpile, reserve, cache, hoard, accumulation, cumulation, quantity, pile, heap, load
supplies, provisions, stocks, rations, food, foodstuffs
1. 2.1 A place where things are kept for future use or sale.
  仓库，货栈
  a grain store
  粮仓。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The sale includes a shop with floor space of 216 square metres and a store of 12 square metres.
  As Ray opened the door to a store of some sort, Rhea saw all of the weapons and armors.
  The service says that there are 384 000 tons in the licensed public stores, grain depositories and the mills.
  Synonyms
  storeroom, storehouse, warehouse, repository, depository, entrepôt
2. 2.2stores Supplies of equipment and food kept for use by members of an army, navy, or other institution, or the place where they are kept.
  （陆军、海军等机构的）贮存品，备用品，补给品；贮备库，贮藏库
  Example sentencesExamples
  As soldiers waited for equipment from the stores, the corporal took the spare store key and unlocked the door, finding the storeman's body hanging inside.
  Arrangements were made to transfer 150 tonnes of stores to the ship as she transited just north of Darwin.
  We relocate Army stores (we call them SSAs-supply support activities) as a matter of routine.
  The general revealed that the US commandos came across stores of rocket propelled grenades, machine guns and ammunition and destroyed them.
  For Sgt Nathan Walsh, this means stores and equipment from Australia have arrived.
  Spotters were used to transport munitions and stores from storage areas to the flightline when equipment could not be pre-positioned prior to sunset.
  The four went to Townsville to load vehicles, stores and equipment.
  The ship carries provisions and stores for battalion transportation for more than ten days.
  On the ship, Debbie was in charge of issuing medical stores, and at home she does a similar job for a chemist.
  The supply of stores to the ship, which required a detailed and lengthy programme, is now well under way.
  Their main role was to co-ordinate the shipment of American troops, military equipment and stores through the port.
  He made a cursory inspection of food stores and water supplies.
  Since building materials had to be shipped to Wewak, the procurement of stores in country proved a major challenge.
  She had visited ten different ports, issued 33,000 tonnes of diesel and aviation fuel and 2,400 tonnes of solid stores and food.
  Without them, ammunition, stores, food, and fuel, would not reach the fighting troops.
  Flagship HMS Ark Royal sailed on Saturday, and headed for Scotland to take on stores and ammunition before she sails south again.
  After briefings and an exchange of stores, both ships continued their respective courses with a wave and a toot goodbye.
  Large ships have several ship stores and hundreds of vending machines that are heavily used.
  The corvette carries water, stores and fuel for an endurance of 14 days.
  Alec landed at Anzac Cove in early November, 1915 and assisted in carrying ammunition, stores and water to the trenches.
  Synonyms
  provisions, stores, stocks, rations, food, food and drink, foodstuffs, eatables, subsistence, produce, necessities
3. 2.3British A computer memory.
  〈英〉（计算机的）存储器
  Synonyms
  memory bank, cache, disk, ram, rom
3British A sheep, steer, cow, or pig acquired or kept for fattening.
待育肥的小羊（或小公牛、小母牛、小猪）
Example sentencesExamples
- The main changes for stores are with sheep which will be allowed into the market on a special movement licence which has to be obtained from the local trading standards officers.
- Dry cows and heifers will suffer no setback through being indoors for a couple of weeks and next in line would be yearling cattle and forward stores.

verbstɔrstôr

[with object]

1Keep or accumulate (something) for future use.
贮备，储藏，储存
a small room used for storing furniture
用来存放家具的小房间。
Example sentencesExamples
- Most states took advantage of the boom times to create rainy day funds, storing away the extra cash.
- I could remove all the CDs and tapes from my living room and store them away for good.
- Fresh calcium carbonate growth solutions were prepared each day and stored in sealed containers.
- Even the biggest bookstores don't have enough room to store a fraction of the new books that wash in and out, like foam on a tide.
- Whole papaya will stay fresh for a week when stored in a sealed container in the refrigerator.
- A yellow cradle for storing the digital pen is cleverly built into the upper-right corner of the keyboard.
- Clay pots that you'd like to save from cracking and chipping should also be stored where they can remain dry.
- There is another memento she keeps safely stored away.
- Some knick-knacks here and there had been safely stored away in my closet at home.
- Psychics say storing things causes corresponding accumulations in our bodies - a horrifying thought for hoarders.
- Food that needs to be kept fresh can be stored in containers too, meaning less plastic wrap or foil is needed.
- Gareth took note and he took to a search for a suitable island to store his accumulated loot.
- In some of those rooms the bank stored old records but many of the offices were as the occupants had left them.
- If using seeds, take care that they are fresh or have been stored carefully in a cool place.
- When stored under ideal conditions, okra seed will remain viable for about five years.
- The grant was used to purchase a new examination light for the Children's Ward treatment room, plus a new fridge to store vaccinations.
- High-end mp3 players have monster hard disks up to 60GB in size for storing your entire CD collection.
- Vials stored at room temperature remained infectious for fewer than two days.
- Are you obsessive-compulsive about storing DVDs and CDs?
- Other researchers discovered that garlic stores selenium in a form that appears to be most active against cancer.
Synonyms
keep, keep in reserve, stow, stockpile, lay aside, lay in, set aside, put away, put down, put to one side, deposit, save, hoard, cache
put into storage, put in store, stow, stow away, put away
1. 1.1 Retain or enter (information) for future electronic retrieval.
  储存（信息）
  the data is stored on disk
  数据储存在磁盘上。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The most important change is to the file system - the way information is stored on the PC.
  Persistent cookies have an expiration date and are stored on a user's hard disk until that date.
  Information is stored on the card and updated every time it is used in a transaction.
  He likened this notion of background knowledge to information stored on the hard disc of a computer.
  His details were stored on a database and then six months ago, Charlie was contacted by the trust for further tests.
  In these solutions, confidential information is stored on a secure Web server.
  If the session-saving feature is enabled, the results may also be stored on the server.
  Software will be loaded on a DVD drive and stored on the hard disk, Brown said.
  In effect, the smaller the magnetic grain, the smaller the bit, the more data that can be stored on a disk.
  As all personal information is stored on the network and not on a device, it is seen as offering a robust security option.
  In a digital system, there can be days or even weeks of information stored on a hard drive within the unit itself.
  Confidential information should only be stored on computers in a locked room.
  This information will be stored on a special website so pupils can record and learn about the main issues in recycling and managing waste in the region.
  Computer forensics deals with any and all evidence that is stored on a computer.
  Interested readers can find much information stored on microfilm in Bolton Central Library Archives.
  The client software can then be used to keep the information on the handset synchronized with the information stored on the server.
  In addition to the 90 names and numbers that can be stored on a SIM card, there is space for 500 names in the phonebook.
  In essence, our whole business is to acquire information that is stored on computers.
  This information was automatically stored on his hard drive.
  Although a real-time link to ground exists, most of the data needs to be stored on hard disk.
2. 1.2be stored with Have a supply of (something useful)
  存有，装有（有用的东西）
  a mind well stored with esoteric knowledge
  装满深奥学问的头脑。
  Example sentencesExamples
  That means that the filing system in their brains is stored with memories that indicate that even seemingly benign situations can carry some hidden threat.
3. 1.3no object Remain fresh while being stored.
  they do not ship or store well

Phrases

in store

1In a safe place while not being used or displayed.
储藏着；准备着
items held in store
储藏的物品。
Example sentencesExamples
- I am reliably informed however that numerous interesting items from this period are held in store by the museum.
2Coming in the future; about to happen.
将要发生，即将发生
he did not yet know what lay in store for him
他还不知道会有什么事等着他。
Example sentencesExamples
- We'll just have to see what kind of surprises life has in store for me the next couple of months.
- He signed a five-year contract last summer but admits he has been left wondering what the future has in store.
- She used to cry for you, child, because she knew what the future had in store for you.
- Having played four times already this season, there were few surprises in store for either team.
- But when we booked the holiday, little did we know what lay in store for us once we arrived.
- The forum will give people the opportunity to find out more about what could be in store for the future.
- On stage there was yet another pleasant surprise in store for the audience.
- For weeks they sweated over their decision, wondering what lay in store for them.
- What that future holds in store for our planet is up to all of us, reasoning together.
- I am now 60 and I have to start thinking about whatever the future has in store for me.

set (or lay or put) store by (or on)

Consider (something) to be of a particular degree of importance or value.
重视；尊重
many people set much store by privacy
许多人非常重视个人隐私。
Example sentencesExamples
- We do set store by harmonisation with our European colleagues.
- There was the marble-topped chiffonier - their mother had set store by it, they could not remember why.
- They set store by groundwork and say there is no shortcut to success.
- In today's world of liberalisation and cut-throat competition, everyone sets store by cost effectiveness even in the field of arts.
- They may, for instance, have spent their college years as an Eros lover, passionate and quick to get involved, setting store on physical attraction and sexual satisfaction.
- Coaches have begun to set store by saving runs rather than just scoring them.
- It is a form that sets store by its use of the demotic, its willingness to locate the sources of poetry defiantly far from the spring on Mount Helicon sacred to the muses.
Synonyms
value, attach great importance to, put a high value on, put a premium on

Phrasal Verbs

store something up

Create problems for the future by failing to address a particular situation adequately at the time.
they're storing up trouble by denying opportunities to younger players
Example sentencesExamples
- Total freedom today would just be a way of running down accumulated social capital and storing up problems for the future.
- Tonight, though, I think bad things may be stored up for the near future.
- What's happening today is storing up major problems for the future.
- In many ways the territorial settlement which Versailles established stored up problems for the future, not least in its reshaping of Germany.
- Others feel the entire technology will store up problems for human health in the future.
- Gordon Brown is storing up a lot of trouble over public sector pay.
- There is little doubt many of us are storing up problems in our finances for our later years.
- Such action will simply store up fiery resentment which will eventually manifest itself in ever more dangerous ways.
- The internationalisation of Iraq's local conflicts threatens to divide Iraqis further and store up conflict for the future, rather than herald anything like a new era of freedom.
- As well as inflicting misery on too many victims now, what kind of problems are we storing up for the future? "

Origin

Middle English: shortening of Old French estore (noun), estorer (verb), from Latin instaurare ‘renew’; compare with restore.

单词	store
释义	Definition of store in English: store noun stɔːstɔr 1A quantity or supply of something kept for use as needed. 储备量，储备物；大量，丰富 the squirrel has a store of food 那只松鼠储有大量的食物。 figurative her vast store of knowledge 〈喻〉她渊博的知识。 Example sentencesExamples It is the principle of being a medium of exchange and only because of this that secondary functions come into being, such as the role of money as a store of value. Mathematics became for me, not a store of past knowledge, but creative activity of the highest form, directed towards the future. Over the longer term the dollar's biggest failure has been as a store of value. They also had a store of flint which they were able to make fires with. Fittingly, this book provides a store of fascinating insights for those who love him, and a supply of brickbats for those who don't. I wonder how many homes have a store of plastic bags, also to be seen floating about in the trees and spoiling the landscape. A store of timber in Oldham also was available to the local population for building. During these five years, the child builds up a store of knowledge about the environment, masters motor skills, and learns to look after itself. Memorates and personal narratives are something else, however, and she has a store of such narratives. The old fashioned gold standard was that money is a store of wealth not a generator of wealth. As a store of pure wisdom, the book is by common agreement unequaled. By being people that others respect and admire, we build up a store of power we can use for projects of our own. He and his wife laid nets in the lake then to get a store of fish in for the freezer; it was one of the ways they marked the end of winter, and the thaw. Money, as a store of value, was an early facilitator of savings and one of the great inventions of mankind. Having a good sense of humour doesn't mean you have to have a store of jokes or tell them perfectly. Kerr is fortunate to have such a store of commitment at hand. It is a good idea to have a store of colostrum in the freezer for back up. Most of us carry a store of memories and hopes of beach life, from rock pools and sandcastles to romantic encounters walking along the silver sands on a desert island. Here, the dollar is ubiquitous as a store of value, a measure of wealth and a pricing mechanism. There is also strong demand for gold bars as a store of value. Synonyms supply, stock, stockpile, reserve, cache, hoard, accumulation, cumulation, quantity, pile, heap, load fund, bank, pool, mine, wealth, deposit, reservoir, inventory, repertoire, repertory rare amassment supplies, provisions, stocks, rations, food, foodstuffs formal comestibles, provender 1.1 A place where things are kept for future use or sale. 仓库，货栈 a grain store 粮仓。 Example sentencesExamples As Ray opened the door to a store of some sort, Rhea saw all of the weapons and armors. The service says that there are 384 000 tons in the licensed public stores, grain depositories and the mills. The sale includes a shop with floor space of 216 square metres and a store of 12 square metres. Synonyms storeroom, storehouse, warehouse, repository, depository, entrepôt granary, silo larder, pantry arsenal, armoury British historical still room archaic garner, spence 1.2stores Supplies of equipment and food kept for use by members of an army, navy, or other institution, or the place where they are kept. （陆军、海军等机构的）贮存品，备用品，补给品；贮备库，贮藏库 cupboards for medical stores he keeps the ship's stores crates started arriving at the quartermaster's stores Example sentencesExamples Since building materials had to be shipped to Wewak, the procurement of stores in country proved a major challenge. Without them, ammunition, stores, food, and fuel, would not reach the fighting troops. On the ship, Debbie was in charge of issuing medical stores, and at home she does a similar job for a chemist. Large ships have several ship stores and hundreds of vending machines that are heavily used. As soldiers waited for equipment from the stores, the corporal took the spare store key and unlocked the door, finding the storeman's body hanging inside. He made a cursory inspection of food stores and water supplies. The ship carries provisions and stores for battalion transportation for more than ten days. She had visited ten different ports, issued 33,000 tonnes of diesel and aviation fuel and 2,400 tonnes of solid stores and food. Alec landed at Anzac Cove in early November, 1915 and assisted in carrying ammunition, stores and water to the trenches. The corvette carries water, stores and fuel for an endurance of 14 days. Arrangements were made to transfer 150 tonnes of stores to the ship as she transited just north of Darwin. After briefings and an exchange of stores, both ships continued their respective courses with a wave and a toot goodbye. For Sgt Nathan Walsh, this means stores and equipment from Australia have arrived. Spotters were used to transport munitions and stores from storage areas to the flightline when equipment could not be pre-positioned prior to sunset. Their main role was to co-ordinate the shipment of American troops, military equipment and stores through the port. We relocate Army stores (we call them SSAs-supply support activities) as a matter of routine. The supply of stores to the ship, which required a detailed and lengthy programme, is now well under way. The four went to Townsville to load vehicles, stores and equipment. Flagship HMS Ark Royal sailed on Saturday, and headed for Scotland to take on stores and ammunition before she sails south again. The general revealed that the US commandos came across stores of rocket propelled grenades, machine guns and ammunition and destroyed them. Synonyms provisions, stores, stocks, rations, food, food and drink, foodstuffs, eatables, subsistence, produce, necessities 1.3British A computer memory. 〈英〉（计算机的）存储器 Synonyms memory bank, cache, disk, ram, rom 2North American A shop of any size or kind. 〈主北美〉商店，店铺 a health-food store 健康食品店。 Example sentencesExamples Start with several prefabricated frames - available from art stores - sized to fit the width of the bed. You'll find most of these varieties at the grocery store or a gourmet shop. Keep an eye out for interesting old clothes items and accessories around the house, on discount racks, and at dollar stores or thrift shops. More than 670 galleries, retail stores and museum shops were nominated. The franchising business is different than the business of operating stores. We have partnered with hair salons, health food stores, restaurants, flower shops, sports stores and other related businesses. The store is about 17 times the size of our store for starters, and it's laid out so much better. Cinnamon sticks are found at grocery and health-food stores and, often during Christmas, at country gift shops. In the 1970s, health-food stores and organic farming were virtually synonymous with the vegetarian diet. There are so many new choices in the aisles of health-food stores and even traditional supermarkets that it can be daunting. Having worked at both franchised and corporate stores back in my youth, I can tell you that there are two different cultures at work. They can be found in nurseries, garden centers, grocery stores, and floral shops in early spring. These are available in a wide variety of colors and fonts at office supply stores or model shops. The small size of his store makes it impossible for him to stock all the titles. Online stores have plus sizes in swimwear from designers that would cost you a fortune at a regular store. Sports drinks are easy enough to find, having made their way from health-food and sporting-goods stores to the corner grocery. It would help if you had clothes you felt good in, and indeed there are cool clothes available in your size at many stores and online. With other grocery stores and major supermarket chains seemingly popping up on every corner, the competition is fierce. The first block to be completed houses a grocery store on the ground floor. You can get hold of these products from most chemists, health food stores or specialist sports shops. Synonyms business, place of business, premises, firm, company, concern, enterprise, venture, organization, operation, undertaking, industry 2.1British A large shop selling different types of goods. 〈英〉（销售各种不同商品的）大商店 with modifier DIY stores as modifier a store manager Example sentencesExamples Retailers often experiment by charging different prices at different stores to build up some kind of picture about the relationship between price and volume. In my young and impressionable years as a Saturday Sales Assistant in a national chain of shops, my store manager once brought her holiday photos in to work. The catalogue store claims sales of over £2 billion annually but does not publish its Irish revenues. He is a store manager at a well-known women's clothing shop. Whilst walking through town I heard the sound of a bell, and came across a colourful personality who was announcing a sale at a local store. Many of his investors hadn't even seen one of his stores, but the sales performance was consistent so they loved them nonetheless. Most stores will start their sales after Christmas. DIY stores enjoyed bumper sales in June, as people rushed to improve their gardens in the anticipation of a few barbecues while the hot weather lasted. Head for Orchard Road where you will find a large selection of malls and stores selling everything from clothes and jewellery to compact disks and cameras. And, after weeks of sluggish sales, DIY stores are slashing prices to attract customers. Be sharp-of-eye when you are purchasing during sales as some sneaky stores put rails of non-reduced items right next to a rail of rock-bottom priced things. A spokeswoman for the company said the future of the store was uncertain at the moment even though planning consent had already been given for it. The store sells bargain clothes, toys and household goods but has come under increasing pressure from competitors in the discount market. More than 2,000 jobs were saved across the UK when rival retailers moved in to buy 24 of the 45 stores being sold. Christmas has come early for thousands of shoppers, with stores launching early sales in a bid to beat off a predicted slump. By chance, the following afternoon, I came across some aconites among the potted plants on sale in a DIY store. As 700 shopworkers at its 65 nationwide stores faced an uncertain future, it emerged that the boardroom divisions have been bubbling under for months. They were told there was no British bacon on offer nor, as far as the sales girl knew, was there any British meat for sale in the store. The store will secure the futures of 350 existing workers as well as creating an additional 150 new jobs. Staff immediately began putting up sales notices in the store. Synonyms shop, retail outlet, reseller, department store, chain store, emporium supermarket, hypermarket, superstore mart informal shed North American informal big box 2.2British A shop selling basic necessities. 〈英〉百货商店 a well-stocked village store 一个货源充足的乡村百货商店。 3A sheep, steer, cow, or pig acquired or kept for fattening. 待育肥的小羊（或小公牛、小母牛、小猪） Example sentencesExamples Dry cows and heifers will suffer no setback through being indoors for a couple of weeks and next in line would be yearling cattle and forward stores. The main changes for stores are with sheep which will be allowed into the market on a special movement licence which has to be obtained from the local trading standards officers. verb stɔːstɔr [with object] 1Keep or accumulate (something) for future use. 贮备，储藏，储存 a small room used for storing furniture 用来存放家具的小房间。 Example sentencesExamples If using seeds, take care that they are fresh or have been stored carefully in a cool place. Vials stored at room temperature remained infectious for fewer than two days. Even the biggest bookstores don't have enough room to store a fraction of the new books that wash in and out, like foam on a tide. Gareth took note and he took to a search for a suitable island to store his accumulated loot. In some of those rooms the bank stored old records but many of the offices were as the occupants had left them. Some knick-knacks here and there had been safely stored away in my closet at home. Most states took advantage of the boom times to create rainy day funds, storing away the extra cash. Fresh calcium carbonate growth solutions were prepared each day and stored in sealed containers. The grant was used to purchase a new examination light for the Children's Ward treatment room, plus a new fridge to store vaccinations. Clay pots that you'd like to save from cracking and chipping should also be stored where they can remain dry. Psychics say storing things causes corresponding accumulations in our bodies - a horrifying thought for hoarders. I could remove all the CDs and tapes from my living room and store them away for good. There is another memento she keeps safely stored away. When stored under ideal conditions, okra seed will remain viable for about five years. Food that needs to be kept fresh can be stored in containers too, meaning less plastic wrap or foil is needed. A yellow cradle for storing the digital pen is cleverly built into the upper-right corner of the keyboard. Other researchers discovered that garlic stores selenium in a form that appears to be most active against cancer. Whole papaya will stay fresh for a week when stored in a sealed container in the refrigerator. Are you obsessive-compulsive about storing DVDs and CDs? High-end mp3 players have monster hard disks up to 60GB in size for storing your entire CD collection. Synonyms keep, keep in reserve, stow, stockpile, lay in/aside, set aside, put away, put down, put to one side, deposit, save, hoard, cache stock up with/on, get in supplies of, collect, gather, accumulate, cumulate, amass husband, reserve, preserve informal put away for a rainy day, squirrel away, salt away, stash put into storage, put in store, stow (away), put away warehouse 1.1 Retain or enter (information) for future electronic retrieval. 储存（信息） the data is stored on disk 数据储存在磁盘上。 Example sentencesExamples This information will be stored on a special website so pupils can record and learn about the main issues in recycling and managing waste in the region. This information was automatically stored on his hard drive. In essence, our whole business is to acquire information that is stored on computers. The client software can then be used to keep the information on the handset synchronized with the information stored on the server. If the session-saving feature is enabled, the results may also be stored on the server. Confidential information should only be stored on computers in a locked room. He likened this notion of background knowledge to information stored on the hard disc of a computer. In addition to the 90 names and numbers that can be stored on a SIM card, there is space for 500 names in the phonebook. Information is stored on the card and updated every time it is used in a transaction. Although a real-time link to ground exists, most of the data needs to be stored on hard disk. In a digital system, there can be days or even weeks of information stored on a hard drive within the unit itself. Interested readers can find much information stored on microfilm in Bolton Central Library Archives. As all personal information is stored on the network and not on a device, it is seen as offering a robust security option. His details were stored on a database and then six months ago, Charlie was contacted by the trust for further tests. Persistent cookies have an expiration date and are stored on a user's hard disk until that date. Software will be loaded on a DVD drive and stored on the hard disk, Brown said. Computer forensics deals with any and all evidence that is stored on a computer. The most important change is to the file system - the way information is stored on the PC. In effect, the smaller the magnetic grain, the smaller the bit, the more data that can be stored on a disk. In these solutions, confidential information is stored on a secure Web server. 1.2be stored with Have a supply of (something useful) 存有，装有（有用的东西） a mind well stored with esoteric knowledge 装满深奥学问的头脑。 Example sentencesExamples That means that the filing system in their brains is stored with memories that indicate that even seemingly benign situations can carry some hidden threat. Phrases in store 1In a safe place while not being used or displayed. 储藏着；准备着 items held in store 储藏的物品。 Example sentencesExamples I am reliably informed however that numerous interesting items from this period are held in store by the museum. 2Coming in the future; about to happen. 将要发生，即将发生 he did not yet know what lay in store for him 他还不知道会有什么事等着他。 Example sentencesExamples What that future holds in store for our planet is up to all of us, reasoning together. But when we booked the holiday, little did we know what lay in store for us once we arrived. He signed a five-year contract last summer but admits he has been left wondering what the future has in store. The forum will give people the opportunity to find out more about what could be in store for the future. Having played four times already this season, there were few surprises in store for either team. For weeks they sweated over their decision, wondering what lay in store for them. On stage there was yet another pleasant surprise in store for the audience. She used to cry for you, child, because she knew what the future had in store for you. We'll just have to see what kind of surprises life has in store for me the next couple of months. I am now 60 and I have to start thinking about whatever the future has in store for me. set (or lay or put) store by (or on) Consider to be of a particular degree of importance or value. 重视；尊重 many people set much store by privacy 许多人非常重视个人隐私。 Example sentencesExamples It is a form that sets store by its use of the demotic, its willingness to locate the sources of poetry defiantly far from the spring on Mount Helicon sacred to the muses. There was the marble-topped chiffonier - their mother had set store by it, they could not remember why. In today's world of liberalisation and cut-throat competition, everyone sets store by cost effectiveness even in the field of arts. We do set store by harmonisation with our European colleagues. Coaches have begun to set store by saving runs rather than just scoring them. They set store by groundwork and say there is no shortcut to success. They may, for instance, have spent their college years as an Eros lover, passionate and quick to get involved, setting store on physical attraction and sexual satisfaction. Synonyms value, attach great importance to, put a high value on, put a premium on Phrasal Verbs store something up Create problems for the future by failing to address a particular situation adequately at the time. they're storing up trouble by denying opportunities to younger players Example sentencesExamples Others feel the entire technology will store up problems for human health in the future. Total freedom today would just be a way of running down accumulated social capital and storing up problems for the future. What's happening today is storing up major problems for the future. Tonight, though, I think bad things may be stored up for the near future. As well as inflicting misery on too many victims now, what kind of problems are we storing up for the future? " Such action will simply store up fiery resentment which will eventually manifest itself in ever more dangerous ways. The internationalisation of Iraq's local conflicts threatens to divide Iraqis further and store up conflict for the future, rather than herald anything like a new era of freedom. Gordon Brown is storing up a lot of trouble over public sector pay. There is little doubt many of us are storing up problems in our finances for our later years. In many ways the territorial settlement which Versailles established stored up problems for the future, not least in its reshaping of Germany. Derivatives storable adjective Dried plasma was indefinitely storable and far more portable than blood. Example sentencesExamples Because gray squirrels are highly sensitive to the perishability of acorns it was critical to design artificial seeds that were recognized by the animals as potentially storable items. They also invented propellant combinations that were robust and storable. At that time, temperatures are still relatively mild and there is a rich supply of storable food, such as seeds and nuts. By turning grain into spirits, the grain would not be wasted; instead, it was transformed into a storable product that could be transported. storer noun To the right of the vegetable storer, is a silver upright griller, and a new, white, 4 piece toaster, still in its box. Example sentencesExamples I have no evidence that the storage rate for the sailboat is excessive, such as evidence from other storers of lower competitive rates or of a regulated range of rates. Moderately damp soil beneath surface stones is both a reasonable heat conductor and a good heat storer, because of the high heat storage capacity of its water content. In the 1990s, one commentator presented the idea that archives should move from being a storer of information to a presenter of older information. Origin Middle English: shortening of Old French estore (noun), estorer (verb), from Latin instaurare 'renew'; compare with restore. Rhymes abhor, adore, afore, anymore, ashore, awe, bandore, Bangalore, before, boar, Boer, bore, caw, chore, claw, cocksure, comprador, cor, core, corps, craw, Delors, deplore, door, draw, drawer, evermore, explore, flaw, floor, for, forbore, fore, foresaw, forevermore, forswore, four, fourscore, furthermore, Gábor, galore, gnaw, gore, grantor, guarantor, guffaw, hard-core, Haugh, haw, hoar, ignore, implore, Indore, interwar, jaw, Johor, Lahore, law, lessor, lor, lore, macaw, man-o'-war, maw, mirador, mor, more, mortgagor, Mysore, nevermore, nor, oar, obligor, offshore, onshore, open-jaw, or, ore, outdoor, outwore, paw, poor, pore, pour, rapport, raw, roar, saw, scaur, score, senhor, señor, shaw, ship-to-shore, shop-floor, shore, signor, Singapore, snore, soar, softcore, sore, spore, straw, swore, Tagore, tau, taw, thaw, Thor, threescore, tor, tore, torr, trapdoor, tug-of-war, two-by-four, underfloor, underscore, war, warrantor, Waugh, whore, withdraw, wore, yaw, yore, your noun.1 phr. phr.v. Definition of store in US English: store nounstɔrstôr 1North American A retail establishment selling items to the public. a health-food store 健康食品店。 Example sentencesExamples We have partnered with hair salons, health food stores, restaurants, flower shops, sports stores and other related businesses. Keep an eye out for interesting old clothes items and accessories around the house, on discount racks, and at dollar stores or thrift shops. The store is about 17 times the size of our store for starters, and it's laid out so much better. More than 670 galleries, retail stores and museum shops were nominated. It would help if you had clothes you felt good in, and indeed there are cool clothes available in your size at many stores and online. The small size of his store makes it impossible for him to stock all the titles. Start with several prefabricated frames - available from art stores - sized to fit the width of the bed. Having worked at both franchised and corporate stores back in my youth, I can tell you that there are two different cultures at work. The first block to be completed houses a grocery store on the ground floor. Cinnamon sticks are found at grocery and health-food stores and, often during Christmas, at country gift shops. There are so many new choices in the aisles of health-food stores and even traditional supermarkets that it can be daunting. The franchising business is different than the business of operating stores. In the 1970s, health-food stores and organic farming were virtually synonymous with the vegetarian diet. Online stores have plus sizes in swimwear from designers that would cost you a fortune at a regular store. You'll find most of these varieties at the grocery store or a gourmet shop. Sports drinks are easy enough to find, having made their way from health-food and sporting-goods stores to the corner grocery. You can get hold of these products from most chemists, health food stores or specialist sports shops. They can be found in nurseries, garden centers, grocery stores, and floral shops in early spring. These are available in a wide variety of colors and fonts at office supply stores or model shops. With other grocery stores and major supermarket chains seemingly popping up on every corner, the competition is fierce. Synonyms business, place of business, premises, firm, company, concern, enterprise, venture, organization, operation, undertaking, industry 1.1as modifier Store-bought. there's a loaf of store bread 2A quantity or supply of something kept for use as needed. 储备量，储备物；大量，丰富 the squirrel has a store of food 那只松鼠储有大量的食物。 figurative her vast store of knowledge 〈喻〉她渊博的知识。 Example sentencesExamples I wonder how many homes have a store of plastic bags, also to be seen floating about in the trees and spoiling the landscape. Money, as a store of value, was an early facilitator of savings and one of the great inventions of mankind. As a store of pure wisdom, the book is by common agreement unequaled. Over the longer term the dollar's biggest failure has been as a store of value. By being people that others respect and admire, we build up a store of power we can use for projects of our own. He and his wife laid nets in the lake then to get a store of fish in for the freezer; it was one of the ways they marked the end of winter, and the thaw. Having a good sense of humour doesn't mean you have to have a store of jokes or tell them perfectly. Most of us carry a store of memories and hopes of beach life, from rock pools and sandcastles to romantic encounters walking along the silver sands on a desert island. Here, the dollar is ubiquitous as a store of value, a measure of wealth and a pricing mechanism. During these five years, the child builds up a store of knowledge about the environment, masters motor skills, and learns to look after itself. A store of timber in Oldham also was available to the local population for building. Memorates and personal narratives are something else, however, and she has a store of such narratives. Kerr is fortunate to have such a store of commitment at hand. Mathematics became for me, not a store of past knowledge, but creative activity of the highest form, directed towards the future. It is a good idea to have a store of colostrum in the freezer for back up. Fittingly, this book provides a store of fascinating insights for those who love him, and a supply of brickbats for those who don't. The old fashioned gold standard was that money is a store of wealth not a generator of wealth. It is the principle of being a medium of exchange and only because of this that secondary functions come into being, such as the role of money as a store of value. They also had a store of flint which they were able to make fires with. There is also strong demand for gold bars as a store of value. Synonyms supply, stock, stockpile, reserve, cache, hoard, accumulation, cumulation, quantity, pile, heap, load supplies, provisions, stocks, rations, food, foodstuffs 2.1 A place where things are kept for future use or sale. 仓库，货栈 a grain store 粮仓。 Example sentencesExamples The sale includes a shop with floor space of 216 square metres and a store of 12 square metres. As Ray opened the door to a store of some sort, Rhea saw all of the weapons and armors. The service says that there are 384 000 tons in the licensed public stores, grain depositories and the mills. Synonyms storeroom, storehouse, warehouse, repository, depository, entrepôt 2.2stores Supplies of equipment and food kept for use by members of an army, navy, or other institution, or the place where they are kept. （陆军、海军等机构的）贮存品，备用品，补给品；贮备库，贮藏库 Example sentencesExamples As soldiers waited for equipment from the stores, the corporal took the spare store key and unlocked the door, finding the storeman's body hanging inside. Arrangements were made to transfer 150 tonnes of stores to the ship as she transited just north of Darwin. We relocate Army stores (we call them SSAs-supply support activities) as a matter of routine. The general revealed that the US commandos came across stores of rocket propelled grenades, machine guns and ammunition and destroyed them. For Sgt Nathan Walsh, this means stores and equipment from Australia have arrived. Spotters were used to transport munitions and stores from storage areas to the flightline when equipment could not be pre-positioned prior to sunset. The four went to Townsville to load vehicles, stores and equipment. The ship carries provisions and stores for battalion transportation for more than ten days. On the ship, Debbie was in charge of issuing medical stores, and at home she does a similar job for a chemist. The supply of stores to the ship, which required a detailed and lengthy programme, is now well under way. Their main role was to co-ordinate the shipment of American troops, military equipment and stores through the port. He made a cursory inspection of food stores and water supplies. Since building materials had to be shipped to Wewak, the procurement of stores in country proved a major challenge. She had visited ten different ports, issued 33,000 tonnes of diesel and aviation fuel and 2,400 tonnes of solid stores and food. Without them, ammunition, stores, food, and fuel, would not reach the fighting troops. Flagship HMS Ark Royal sailed on Saturday, and headed for Scotland to take on stores and ammunition before she sails south again. After briefings and an exchange of stores, both ships continued their respective courses with a wave and a toot goodbye. Large ships have several ship stores and hundreds of vending machines that are heavily used. The corvette carries water, stores and fuel for an endurance of 14 days. Alec landed at Anzac Cove in early November, 1915 and assisted in carrying ammunition, stores and water to the trenches. Synonyms provisions, stores, stocks, rations, food, food and drink, foodstuffs, eatables, subsistence, produce, necessities 2.3British A computer memory. 〈英〉（计算机的）存储器 Synonyms memory bank, cache, disk, ram, rom 3British A sheep, steer, cow, or pig acquired or kept for fattening. 待育肥的小羊（或小公牛、小母牛、小猪） Example sentencesExamples The main changes for stores are with sheep which will be allowed into the market on a special movement licence which has to be obtained from the local trading standards officers. Dry cows and heifers will suffer no setback through being indoors for a couple of weeks and next in line would be yearling cattle and forward stores. verbstɔrstôr [with object] 1Keep or accumulate (something) for future use. 贮备，储藏，储存 a small room used for storing furniture 用来存放家具的小房间。 Example sentencesExamples Most states took advantage of the boom times to create rainy day funds, storing away the extra cash. I could remove all the CDs and tapes from my living room and store them away for good. Fresh calcium carbonate growth solutions were prepared each day and stored in sealed containers. Even the biggest bookstores don't have enough room to store a fraction of the new books that wash in and out, like foam on a tide. Whole papaya will stay fresh for a week when stored in a sealed container in the refrigerator. A yellow cradle for storing the digital pen is cleverly built into the upper-right corner of the keyboard. Clay pots that you'd like to save from cracking and chipping should also be stored where they can remain dry. There is another memento she keeps safely stored away. Some knick-knacks here and there had been safely stored away in my closet at home. Psychics say storing things causes corresponding accumulations in our bodies - a horrifying thought for hoarders. Food that needs to be kept fresh can be stored in containers too, meaning less plastic wrap or foil is needed. Gareth took note and he took to a search for a suitable island to store his accumulated loot. In some of those rooms the bank stored old records but many of the offices were as the occupants had left them. If using seeds, take care that they are fresh or have been stored carefully in a cool place. When stored under ideal conditions, okra seed will remain viable for about five years. The grant was used to purchase a new examination light for the Children's Ward treatment room, plus a new fridge to store vaccinations. High-end mp3 players have monster hard disks up to 60GB in size for storing your entire CD collection. Vials stored at room temperature remained infectious for fewer than two days. Are you obsessive-compulsive about storing DVDs and CDs? Other researchers discovered that garlic stores selenium in a form that appears to be most active against cancer. Synonyms keep, keep in reserve, stow, stockpile, lay aside, lay in, set aside, put away, put down, put to one side, deposit, save, hoard, cache put into storage, put in store, stow, stow away, put away 1.1 Retain or enter (information) for future electronic retrieval. 储存（信息） the data is stored on disk 数据储存在磁盘上。 Example sentencesExamples The most important change is to the file system - the way information is stored on the PC. Persistent cookies have an expiration date and are stored on a user's hard disk until that date. Information is stored on the card and updated every time it is used in a transaction. He likened this notion of background knowledge to information stored on the hard disc of a computer. His details were stored on a database and then six months ago, Charlie was contacted by the trust for further tests. In these solutions, confidential information is stored on a secure Web server. If the session-saving feature is enabled, the results may also be stored on the server. Software will be loaded on a DVD drive and stored on the hard disk, Brown said. In effect, the smaller the magnetic grain, the smaller the bit, the more data that can be stored on a disk. As all personal information is stored on the network and not on a device, it is seen as offering a robust security option. In a digital system, there can be days or even weeks of information stored on a hard drive within the unit itself. Confidential information should only be stored on computers in a locked room. This information will be stored on a special website so pupils can record and learn about the main issues in recycling and managing waste in the region. Computer forensics deals with any and all evidence that is stored on a computer. Interested readers can find much information stored on microfilm in Bolton Central Library Archives. The client software can then be used to keep the information on the handset synchronized with the information stored on the server. In addition to the 90 names and numbers that can be stored on a SIM card, there is space for 500 names in the phonebook. In essence, our whole business is to acquire information that is stored on computers. This information was automatically stored on his hard drive. Although a real-time link to ground exists, most of the data needs to be stored on hard disk. 1.2be stored with Have a supply of (something useful) 存有，装有（有用的东西） a mind well stored with esoteric knowledge 装满深奥学问的头脑。 Example sentencesExamples That means that the filing system in their brains is stored with memories that indicate that even seemingly benign situations can carry some hidden threat. 1.3no object Remain fresh while being stored. they do not ship or store well Phrases in store 1In a safe place while not being used or displayed. 储藏着；准备着 items held in store 储藏的物品。 Example sentencesExamples I am reliably informed however that numerous interesting items from this period are held in store by the museum. 2Coming in the future; about to happen. 将要发生，即将发生 he did not yet know what lay in store for him 他还不知道会有什么事等着他。 Example sentencesExamples We'll just have to see what kind of surprises life has in store for me the next couple of months. He signed a five-year contract last summer but admits he has been left wondering what the future has in store. She used to cry for you, child, because she knew what the future had in store for you. Having played four times already this season, there were few surprises in store for either team. But when we booked the holiday, little did we know what lay in store for us once we arrived. The forum will give people the opportunity to find out more about what could be in store for the future. On stage there was yet another pleasant surprise in store for the audience. For weeks they sweated over their decision, wondering what lay in store for them. What that future holds in store for our planet is up to all of us, reasoning together. I am now 60 and I have to start thinking about whatever the future has in store for me. set (or lay or put) store by (or on) Consider (something) to be of a particular degree of importance or value. 重视；尊重 many people set much store by privacy 许多人非常重视个人隐私。 Example sentencesExamples We do set store by harmonisation with our European colleagues. There was the marble-topped chiffonier - their mother had set store by it, they could not remember why. They set store by groundwork and say there is no shortcut to success. In today's world of liberalisation and cut-throat competition, everyone sets store by cost effectiveness even in the field of arts. They may, for instance, have spent their college years as an Eros lover, passionate and quick to get involved, setting store on physical attraction and sexual satisfaction. Coaches have begun to set store by saving runs rather than just scoring them. It is a form that sets store by its use of the demotic, its willingness to locate the sources of poetry defiantly far from the spring on Mount Helicon sacred to the muses. Synonyms value, attach great importance to, put a high value on, put a premium on Phrasal Verbs store something up Create problems for the future by failing to address a particular situation adequately at the time. they're storing up trouble by denying opportunities to younger players Example sentencesExamples Total freedom today would just be a way of running down accumulated social capital and storing up problems for the future. Tonight, though, I think bad things may be stored up for the near future. What's happening today is storing up major problems for the future. In many ways the territorial settlement which Versailles established stored up problems for the future, not least in its reshaping of Germany. Others feel the entire technology will store up problems for human health in the future. Gordon Brown is storing up a lot of trouble over public sector pay. There is little doubt many of us are storing up problems in our finances for our later years. Such action will simply store up fiery resentment which will eventually manifest itself in ever more dangerous ways. The internationalisation of Iraq's local conflicts threatens to divide Iraqis further and store up conflict for the future, rather than herald anything like a new era of freedom. As well as inflicting misery on too many victims now, what kind of problems are we storing up for the future? " Origin Middle English: shortening of Old French estore (noun), estorer (verb), from Latin instaurare ‘renew’; compare with restore. noun.1 phr. phr.v.
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