Betekenis van store In het Nederlands

• 0 a large shop where you can buy many different types of goods:

  • a department store

  • a DIY/furniture store

  • a clothing/liquor store

  • also UK a department store

  • also UK a furniture store

  • a convenience store

• 1 an amount of something that is being kept for future use:

  • He has an impressively large store of wine in his cellar.

  • Food stores are reported to be running dangerously low in the capital.

  • figurative My grandmothers store of memories was shared over the dinner table.

  • a grain/weapons store

• 2 to put or keep things in a special place for use in the future:

  • The data is stored on a hard disk and backed up on a CD.

  • I stored my possessions in my mother's house while I was living in Spain.

  • I've stored my thick sweaters and jackets (away) until next winter.

  • Squirrels store (up) nuts for the winter.

• 3 a place where you can buy goods or services:

  • a grocery/hardware/video store

  • convenience/department stores

• 4 a supply of something:

  • She has a store of anecdotes (= a large number of them) that she could draw on whenever she needed one.

  • energy stores

• 5 to put or keep things for use in the future:

  • We store the garden tools in a shed in the backyard.

  • All the information is stored on a hard disk.

• 6 a large building where you can buy many types of goods:

  • The DIY store group has expanded steadily in several main cities.

  • The economic crisis forced the closure of their flagship store.

  • At present, only 6.5% of the group's store managers are women.

• 7 a place where people go to buy things:

  • We failed to get the right products into the right stores.

  • a grocery/hardware/record store

  • an online store

• 8 a large building where things are kept until they are needed:

  • a grain/weapons store

• 9 a supply of something that is being kept so it can be used later:

  • Gold remains one of the most reliable stores of wealth.

• 10 to put or keep something somewhere until it is needed:

  • The fire damaged over 80% of the stock stored in the warehouse.

  • Carbon dioxide produced when burning coal can now be stored underground rather than released into the atmosphere.

• 11 to keep information, music, etc. on a computer:

  • The system allows users to retrieve e-mail stored on a remote server.

  • digitally/electronically stored MP3 technology allows a large amount of music to be electronically stored in a relatively compact space.