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store
English
Etymology
From Middle English store, stoure, storre, from Anglo-Norman stor, estore, estorr, estoer, and Old French estour, estor, from Latin instaur?.
Pronunciation
- (General American) enPR: stôr, IPA(key): /st??/
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: stô, IPA(key): /st??/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: st?r, IPA(key): /sto(?)?/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /sto?/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
- Homophone: stower (in some accents)
Noun
store (plural stores)
- A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.
- A supply held in storage.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, II:13:
- But there was an infinite store of mercy in those eyes, for him too a word of pardon even though he had erred and sinned and wandered.
- By late summer a sufficient store of stone had accumulated, and then the building began […] , under the superintendence of the pigs.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, II:13:
- (mainly North American) A place where items may be purchased; a shop.
- 1948, Carey McWilliams, North from Mexico / The Spanish-Speaking People of The United States, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 75,
- In 1866 Colonel J. F. Meline noted that the rebozo had almost disappeared in Santa Fe and that hoop skirts, on sale in the stores, were being widely used.
- 1948, Carey McWilliams, North from Mexico / The Spanish-Speaking People of The United States, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 75,
- (computing, dated) Memory.
- A great quantity or number; abundance.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 37:
- I make my love engrafted to this store.
- 1645, John Milton, L'Allegro
- With store of Ladies, whose bright eies / Rain influence, and judge the prise / Of Wit, or Arms, while both contend / To win her Grace, whom all commend.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 37:
Synonyms
- (supply held in storage): stock, supply
- (place from which items may be purchased): boutique, shop (UK); see also Thesaurus:retail store
- (in computing): memory
Derived terms
Related terms
- storage
Descendants
- Tok Pisin: stua
- ? Rotokas: sitoa
- ? Afrikaans: stoor
Translations
Verb
store (third-person singular simple present stores, present participle storing, simple past and past participle stored)
- (transitive) To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose.
- Contain.
- The cabinets store all the food the mice would like.
- Have the capacity and capability to contain.
- They sell boxes that store 24 mason jars.
- (transitive, computing) To write (something) into memory or registers.
Derived terms
Translations
References
- store at OneLook Dictionary Search
- store on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- store in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Anagrams
- Resto, estro-, resto, roset, rotes, sorte, tores, torse
Danish
Adjective
store
- definite of stor
- plural of stor
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
store
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of storen
Anagrams
- roest, roste, stoer
French
Etymology
Latin storea (“mat”), via regional Italian stora (modern Italian stuoia).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st??/
Noun
store m (plural stores)
- blind, shade (for a window)
Descendants
- ? Catalan: estor
- ? Galician: estor
- ? German: Store
- ? Portuguese: estore
Further reading
- “store” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
References
Anagrams
- resto, rotes, sorte, tores, torse
Latvian
Noun
store f (5th declension)
- sturgeon
Declension
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Anglo-Norman stor, estour, ultimately from Latin instaurare.
Alternative forms
- stor, stoure, storre, stour, stoor, stoore
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st??r/
Noun
store (uncountable)
- supplies, provisions
- livestock, farm animals
- (stored) possessions, savings
- collection, storage
- storehouse, storeroom
- value, importance
Descendants
- English: store
- Tok Pisin: stua
- ? Rotokas: sitoa
- ? Afrikaans: stoor
- Tok Pisin: stua
- Scots: store
References
- “st?r(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.
Etymology 2
From Old English st?r and Old Norse stórr, from Proto-Germanic *st?raz; some forms are also influenced by Middle Dutch stuur.
Alternative forms
- stoor, stour, stur, sture, storre, stowre, stoore, stoure
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sto?r/, /stu?r/, /st??r/
Adjective
store
- strong, powerful, intense
- violent, threatening, imposing
- stern, sharp, harsh
- numerous, large in number
- large, big, great
- coarse, rough
Descendants
- English: stoor, stour (archaic)
- Scots: stour, stoure, sture, stoor, stoar
References
- “st??r(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.
Adverb
store
- violently, threateningly, imposingly
- sternly, sharply, harshly
References
- “st??re, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.
Etymology 3
From Old English st?r; possibly from a Celtic language.
Alternative forms
- stor, stoure
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sto?r/
Noun
store
- incense, frankincense, storax
References
- “st??r(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.
Norwegian Bokmål
Adjective
store
- definite singular of stor
- plural of stor
Norwegian Nynorsk
Adjective
store
- definite singular of stor
- plural of stor
Swedish
Adjective
store
- absolute definite natural masculine form of stor.
Anagrams
- orets, rotes, teros
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flock
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /fl?k/
- (US) IPA(key): /fl?k/
- Rhymes: -?k
Etymology 1
From Middle English flock (“flock”), from Old English flocc (“flock, company, troop”), from Proto-Germanic *flukkaz, *flakka- (“crowd, troop”). Cognate with Middle Low German vlocke (“crowd, flock”), Old Norse flokkr (“crowd, troop, band, flock”). Perhaps related to Old English folc (“crowd, troop, band”). More at folk.
Noun
flock (plural flocks)
- A number of birds together in a group, such as those gathered together for the purpose of migration.
- A large number of animals associated together in a group; commonly used of various farmed animals, such as sheep and goats, but applied to a wide variety of animals.
- Those served by a particular pastor or shepherd.
- A large number of people.
- Synonym: congregation
- (Christianity) A religious congregation.
- Synonym: congregation
Synonyms
(large number of people):
- bunch, gaggle, horde, host, legion, litter, nest, rabble, swarm, throng, wake
Translations
Verb
flock (third-person singular simple present flocks, present participle flocking, simple past and past participle flocked)
- (intransitive) To congregate in or head towards a place in large numbers.
- People flocked to the cinema to see the new film.
- What place the gods for our repose assigned.
Friends daily flock; and scarce the kindly spring
Began to clothe the ground
- What place the gods for our repose assigned.
- (transitive, obsolete) To flock to; to crowd.
- 1609, Taylor
- Good fellows, trooping, flocked me so.
- 1609, Taylor
- To treat a pool with chemicals to remove suspended particles.
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English flok (“tuft of wool”), from Old French floc (“tuft of wool”), from Late Latin floccus (“tuft of wool”), probably from Frankish *flokko (“down, wool, flock”), from Proto-Germanic *flukk?n-, *flukkan-, *fluks?n- (“down, flock”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewk- (“hair, fibres, tuft”). Cognate with Old High German flocko (“down”), Middle Dutch vlocke (“flock”), Norwegian dialectal flugsa (“snowflake”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian flokë (“hair”).
Noun
flock (countable and uncountable, plural flocks)
- Coarse tufts of wool or cotton used in bedding.
- A lock of wool or hair.
- Very fine sifted woollen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, formerly used as a coating for wallpaper to give it a velvety or clothlike appearance; also, the dust of vegetable fibre used for a similar purpose.
- There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
Translations
Verb
flock (third-person singular simple present flocks, present participle flocking, simple past and past participle flocked)
- (transitive) To coat a surface with dense fibers or particles; especially, to create a dense arrangement of fibers with a desired nap.
Translations
Derived terms
- flocked
See also
- Appendix:English collective nouns
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish flokker, flukker, from Old Norse flokkr, from Proto-Germanic *flukkaz. Cognate with Faroese flokkur, Icelandic flokkur, Norwegian flokk, and Danish flok.
Pronunciation
Noun
flock c
- flock; a group of people or animals
- murder of crows
Declension
Related terms
- flockas
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