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Store vs Throng - What's the difference?

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Store is a related term of throng.


As verbs the difference between store and throng

is that store is while throng is (label) to crowd into a place, especially to fill it.

As a noun throng is

a group of people crowded or gathered closely together; a multitude.

As an adjective throng is

(scotland|northern england|dialect) filled with persons or objects; crowded.

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

    See also

    * ("store" on Wikipedia)

    Anagrams

    * * 1000 English basic words ----

    throng

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A group of people crowded or gathered closely together; a multitude.
  • * Daniel
    • So, with this bold opposer rushes on / This many-headed monster, multitude .
  • * Milton
    • Not to know me argues yourselves unknown, / The lowest of your throng .
  • * {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
    • , title= , chapter=2 citation , passage=Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng ; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.}}
  • A group of things; a host or swarm.

    • Quotations

    * 1885 — *: Perhaps you suppose this throng *: Can't keep it up all day long?

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (label) To crowd into a place, especially to fill it.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild
    • , title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=5 , passage=By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.}}
  • (label) To congregate.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
    • I have seen the dumb men throng to see him.
  • (label) To crowd or press, as persons; to oppress or annoy with a crowd of living beings.
  • * Bible, (w) v. 24
    • Much people followed him, and thronged him.

    Related terms

    * thring

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (Scotland, Northern England, dialect) Filled with persons or objects; crowded.
  • *1882 , Gerard Manley Hopkins, :
  • *:EARTH, sweet Earth, sweet landscape, with leavés throng
  • *:And louchéd low grass, heaven that dost appeal
  • *:To, with no tongue to plead, no heart to feel;
  • *:That canst but only be, but dost that long—