Store vs. Depot — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Store and Depot
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Store
A place where merchandise is offered for sale; a shop.
Depot
Depot ( DEP-oh or DEE-poh) may refer to:
Store
A stock or supply reserved for future use
A squirrel's store of acorns.
Depot
A railroad or bus station.
Store
Stores Supplies, especially of food, clothing, or arms.
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Depot
A warehouse or storehouse.
Store
A place where commodities are kept; a warehouse or storehouse.
Depot
A storage installation for military equipment and supplies.
Store
A great quantity or number; an abundance.
Depot
A station for assembling military recruits and forwarding them to active units.
Store
To reserve or put away for future use.
Depot
(Medicine) A mass of a drug or other substance that has been injected into the body and is gradually absorbed into the surrounding tissue over time.
Store
To fill, supply, or stock.
Depot
A storage facility, in particular, a warehouse.
Store
To deposit or receive in a storehouse or warehouse for safekeeping.
Depot
A storage space for public transport and other vehicles where they can be maintained and from which they are dispatched for service
Store
(Computers) To copy (data) into memory or onto a storage device, such as a hard disk.
Depot
(US) A bus station or railway station. Rail transportation
Store
A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.
This building used to be a store for old tires.
Depot
(military) A place where recruits are assembled before being sent to active units.
Store
A supply held in storage.
Depot
(military) A place for the storage, servicing or upgrade of military hardware.
Store
(mainly North American) A place where items may be purchased; a shop.
I need to get some milk from the grocery store.
Depot
(military) The portion of a regiment that remains at home when the rest go on foreign service.
Store
Memory.
The main store of 1000 36-bit words seemed large at the time.
Depot
(card games) The tableau; the area where cards can be arranged in solitaire or patience games.
Store
A great quantity or number; abundance.
Depot
A place of deposit for the storing of goods; a warehouse; a storehouse.
The islands of Guernsey and Jersey are at present the great depots of this kingdom.
Store
A head of store cattle (feeder cattle to be sold to others for finishing); a store cattle beast.
Depot
A military station where stores and provisions are kept, or where recruits are assembled and drilled.
Store
(transitive) To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose.
I'll store these books in the attic.
Depot
A railway station; a building for the accommodation and protection of railway passengers or freight.
Store
Contain.
The cabinets store all the food the mice would like.
Depot
Station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods
Store
Have the capacity and capability to contain.
They sell boxes that store 24 mason jars.
Depot
A depository for goods;
Storehouses were built close to the docks
Store
To write (something) into memory or registers.
This operation stores the result on the stack.
Store
That which is accumulated, or massed together; a source from which supplies may be drawn; hence, an abundance; a great quantity, or a great number.
The ships are fraught with store of victuals.
With store of ladies, whose bright eyesRain influence, and give the prize.
Store
A place of deposit for goods, esp. for large quantities; a storehouse; a warehouse; a magazine.
Store
Any place where goods are sold, whether by wholesale or retail; a shop.
Store
Articles, especially of food, accumulated for some specific object; supplies, as of provisions, arms, ammunition, and the like; as, the stores of an army, of a ship, of a family.
His swine, his horse, his stoor, and his poultry.
In his needy shop a tortoise hung,An alligator stuffed, and other skinsOf ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelvesA beggarly account of empty boxes.
Sulphurous and nitrous foam, . . . Concocted and adjusted, they reducedTo blackest grain, and into store conveyed.
Store
Accumulated; hoarded.
Store
To collect as a reserved supply; to accumulate; to lay away.
Dora stored what little she could save.
Store
To furnish; to supply; to replenish; esp., to stock or furnish against a future time.
Her mind with thousand virtues stored.
Wise Plato said the world with men was stored.
Having stored a pond of four acres with carps, tench, and other fish.
Store
To deposit in a store, warehouse, or other building, for preservation; to warehouse; as, to store goods.
Store
A mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services;
He bought it at a shop on Cape Cod
Store
A supply of something available for future use;
He brought back a large store of Cuban cigars
Store
An electronic memory device;
A memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached
Store
A depository for goods;
Storehouses were built close to the docks
Store
Keep or lay aside for future use;
Store grain for the winter
The bear stores fat for the period of hibernation when he doesn't eat
Store
Find a place for and put away for storage;
Where should we stow the vegetables?
I couldn't store all the books in the attic so I sold some
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