stoped English
Verb
(head)
(stope)
stope English
Noun
( en noun)
A mining excavation in the form of a terrace of steps.
* 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, page 318,
- The other smell that worked its way into your clothes, your skin, your spirit, believed here to rise by way of long-deserted drifts and stopes , from the everyday atmosphere of Hell itself.
Derived terms
* stope assay plan
* stope board
* stope fillings
* stope hoist
* stope pillar
Verb
(mining) To excavate in the form of stopes.
(mining) To fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the ore has been worked out.
Anagrams
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stored English
Verb
(head)
(store)
Anagrams
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store English
Noun
( en noun)
A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.
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A supply held in storage.
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- 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.
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*{{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.
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A large amount of information retained in one's memory.
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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.}}
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(computing) Write (something) into memory or registers.
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(intransitive) To remain in good condition while stored.
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Derived terms
* store away
* store up
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