store (original) (raw)
store noun [C] (PLACE TO BUY GOODS)
retail store
wholesale store
Note:
- In UK English, store refers to a large shop where many different types of goods are sold, but in US English store can mean either a large or a small place where different types of goods are sold, or only one type.
the store
I'm going to the store — do you need anything?
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
store noun [C] (STH KEPT)
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Idioms
Phrasal verb
(Definition of store from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
store | American Dictionary
store noun [C] (PLACE TO BUY THINGS)
store noun [C] (SUPPLY)
Idiom
store verb [T] (KEEP)
(Definition of store from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of store
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Under this account, if children's lexical representations are stored as sub-units, they are then able to access more stable units with increased accuracy.
They distinguish a lexical network in which word form information is stored from a semantic network in which perceptual knowledge and conceptual knowledge are represented.
Therefore, they must cope with the problem of representing very diverse lexical information at different levels of granularity, and store the information efficiently.
The starting point for each part is either a random or a previously stored sound.
The thermal mass in superinsulated housing is not able to store all this solar energy, so the useful solar gains are greatly reduced.
We can now return to the process of transformation by which we convert inward invisible stores of knowledge into visible information.
What is stored as semantic involves regularities in experience at the time language forms are used, and surely that varies a good deal.
Measuring decomposition, nutrient turnover, and stores in plant litter.
The home location register stores permanent data about subscribers, including a subscriber's service profile, location information, and activity status.
Secondly, even if it was possible, the performance cost of checking all array stores would be prohibitive.
There may be serious issues of successfully storing all the knowledge and retrieving the relevant knowledge in reasonable time.
First, it is difficult to store large quantities of electricity cheaply.
The place where the travellers had reached the shore was far from where the food supplies were stored.
Sufficient practice may enable the poor readers to gradually store the orthographic form into memory and rely on direct recognition at the time of posttesting.
We can also define a semantics of object specifications and show how it relates to store specifications.
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Collocations with store
These are words often used in combination with store.
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Its few businesses include an antique store and a pub.
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He was employed in 1910 as a bookkeeper at a cigar store and in 1920 as the proprietor of a cigar and tobacco retail store.
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Murstad also ran a sports clothing store.
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