Wildland vs Store - What's the difference?
wildland | store |
Land that is unfit for, or has not been modified by, cultivation or other human activity; a natural area.
* 1837, , question submitted to the law officers of the Crown in England, quoted in (w), opinion in Mercer v. Attorney General for Ontario'', 1881, in ''Reports of the Supreme Court of Canada , Volume V,
* 1883 September 22, Mallerstang Forest and Pendragon Castle, Westmoreland (book review), in Manchester City News'', Notes and Queries section, No. 37, reprinted in J. H. Nodal (ed.), ''City News Notes and Queries'', ''City News Office (1883–4), Volume V,
A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.
A supply held in storage.
*
(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)
(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.
As nouns the difference between wildland and store
is that wildland is land that is unfit for, or has not been modified by, cultivation or other human activity; a natural area while store is a place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.As a verb store is
(transitive) to keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose.wildland
English
Alternative forms
* wild landNoun
page 686,
- Whether it is in point of law competent for his Majesty, with the advice of and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of New Brunswick'', to render the tracts of wildland in the colony which belong to his Majesty ''jure coronæ subject to the appropriation of the legislature of the province for a fixed period or in perpetuity in return for a civil list to be settled on the Crown for a similar term, or in perpetuity as may be thought best?
page 136,
- The traveller by the Midland Railway line to Carlisle passes through Mallerstang in the stretch of wildland traversed before reaching Kirkby Stephen, but there is no station in any portion of the valley to acquaint him with the fact.
Usage notes
* The singular form wildland is commonly used in noun compounds, either attributively as in “wildland fire”, “wildland ecosystem”, “wildland preservation” and so on, or via hyphenation as in “wildland-urban interface” (WUI). Otherwise, this term is ordinarily found in its plural form (wildlands).Synonyms
* wasteland * wildernessstore
English
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.}}