Store vs Heap - What's the difference?
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A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.
A supply held in storage.
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(label) A place where items may be purchased.
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, 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)
(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 (computing) Write (something) into memory or registers.
(intransitive) To remain in good condition while stored.
A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
* Francis Bacon
* W. Black
A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
* Dryden
A great number or large quantity of things.
* Bishop Burnet
* Robert Louis Stevenson
(computing) A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
* {{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=May 9
, author=Jonathan Wilson
, title=Europa League: Radamel Falcao's Atlético Madrid rout Athletic Bilbao
, work=the Guardian
To pile in a heap.
To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.
* 1819 , , Otho the Great , Act I, scene II, verses 40-42
To supply in great quantity.
Store is a related term of heap.
As a verb store
is .As a noun heap is
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Noun
(en noun)- By late summer a sufficient store of stone had accumulated, and then the building began, under the superintendence of the pigs.
- 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) memoryDerived 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 * storeroomVerb
(stor)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.}}
Derived terms
* store away * store upSee also
* ("store" on Wikipedia)Anagrams
* * 1000 English basic words ----heap
English
(wikipedia heap)Noun
(en noun)- a heap of vassals and slaves
- He had heaps of friends.
- a heap of earth or stones
- Huge heaps of slain around the body rise.
- a vast heap , both of places of scripture and quotations
- I have noticed a heap of things in my life.
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Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
(heap)- He heaped the laundry upon the bed and began folding.
- Cry a reward, to him who shall first bring
- News of that vanished Arabian,
- A full-heap’d helmet of the purest gold.
- They heaped praise upon their newest hero.