store English
Noun
( en noun)
A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.
-
A supply held in storage.
*
- By late summer a sufficient store of stone had accumulated, and then the building began, under the superintendence of the pigs.
(label) A place where items may be purchased.
-
*{{quote-book, year=1899, author=(Stephen Crane)
, title=, chapter=1
, passage=There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. “Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store , an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up […].”}}
Memory.
-
A large amount of information retained in one's memory.
-
A great quantity or number.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
- With store of ladies, whose bright eyes / Rain influence, and give the prize.
Synonyms
* (supply held in storage) stock, supply
* (place from which items may be purchased) boutique, shop (UK); see also
* (in computing) memory
Derived terms
* company store
* drugstore
* general store
* variety store
* give away the store
* in store
* mind the store
* put store in
* set store by
* storage
* storebought
* storefront
* storehouse
* storekeeper
* storeroom
Related terms
* storage
Verb
( stor)
(transitive) To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=( The China Governess)
, chapter=1 citation
, passage=The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.}}
-
(computing) Write (something) into memory or registers.
-
(intransitive) To remain in good condition while stored.
-
Derived terms
* store away
* store up
|
achieve English
Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete )
Verb
( achiev)
To succeed in something, now especially in academic performance.
To carry out successfully; to accomplish.
* I. Taylor
- Supposing faculties and powers to be the same, far more may be achieved in any line by the aid of a capital, invigorating motive than without it.
(obsolete) To conclude, finish, especially successfully.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.1:
- Full many Countreyes they did overronne, / From the uprising to the setting Sunne, / And many hard adventures did atchieve [...].
To obtain, or gain (a desired result, objective etc.), as the result of exertion; to succeed in gaining; to win.
*
, title=( The Celebrity), chapter=1
, passage=I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.}}
* {{quote-news, year=2013, date=January 22, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC
, title= Aston Villa 2-1 Bradford (3-4)
, passage=Bradford may have lost on the night but they stubbornly protected a 3-1 first-leg advantage to emulate a feat last achieved by Rochdale in 1962.}}
* (William Shakespeare), (Twelfth Night), II-v
- Some are born great, some achieve greatness.
*
- Thou hast achieved our liberty.
(obsolete) To conclude, to turn out.
* Prior
- Show all the spoils by valiant kings achieved .
* (William Shakespeare), (Othello), II-i
- He hath achieved a maid / That paragons description.
Synonyms
* accomplish, effect, fulfil, fulfill, complete, execute, perform, realize, obtain. See accomplish
Derived terms
* achievement
* achiever
External links
*
*
|
