Maintain vs Store - What's the difference?
maintain | store |
(obsolete) To support (someone), to back up or assist (someone) in an action.
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To keep up; to preserve; to uphold (a state, condition etc.).
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, title= To declare or affirm (a clause) to be true; to assert.
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, title= 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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Memory.
A large amount of information retained in one's memory.
A great quantity or number.
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(transitive) To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose.
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, chapter=1 (computing) Write (something) into memory or registers.
(intransitive) To remain in good condition while stored.
As verbs the difference between maintain and store
is that maintain is (obsolete|transitive) to support (someone), to back up or assist (someone) in an action while store is (transitive) to keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose.As a noun store is
a place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.maintain
English
Verb
(en verb)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything. In a moment she had dropped to the level of a casual labourer.}}
QPR 2-3 Man City, passage=Mancini's men were far from their best but dug in to earn a 10th win in 11 league games and an eighth successive victory in all competitions to maintain their five-point lead at the top of the table.}}
Mining the Boreal North, passage=Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages.}}
Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?, passage=She maintains that the internet should face similar curbs to TV because young people are increasingly living online. "It's totally different, someone at Google watching the video from the comfort of their office in San Francisco to someone from a council house in London, where this video is happening right outside their front door."}}
Derived terms
* maintainabilityAntonyms
* (to keep up) abandonAnagrams
*store
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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.}}
