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Store vs. Write

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Storenoun

A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.

‘This building used to be a store for old tires.’;

Writeverb

(ambitransitive) To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.

‘The pupil wrote his name on the paper.’; ‘Your son has been writing on the wall.’;

Storenoun

A supply held in storage.

Writeverb

(transitive) To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.).

‘My uncle writes newspaper articles for The Herald.’;

Storenoun

(mainly North American) A place where items may be purchased.

‘I need to get some milk from the grocery store.’;

Writeverb

(transitive) To send written information to.

‘(UK) Please write to me when you get there.’; ‘(US) Please write me when you get there.’;

Storenoun

Memory.

‘The main store of 1000 36-bit words seemed large at the time.’;

Writeverb

(transitive) To show (information, etc) in written form.

‘The due day of the homework is written in the syllabus.’;

Storenoun

A large amount of information retained in one's memory.

‘His vast store of jokes means he has something funny to say in every situation.’;

Writeverb

(intransitive) To be an author.

‘I write for a living.’;

Storenoun

A great quantity or number; abundance.

Writeverb

}} To record data mechanically or electronically.

‘The computer writes to the disk faster than it reads from it.’;

Storeverb

(transitive) To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose.

‘I'll store these books in the attic.’;

Writeverb

To fill in, to complete using words.

‘I was very anxious to know my score after I wrote the test.’;

Storeverb

To write (something) into memory or registers.

‘This operation stores the result on the stack.’;

Writeverb

To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave.

‘truth written on the heart’;

Storeverb

(intransitive) To remain in good condition while stored.

‘I don't think that kind of cheese will store well in the refrigerator.’;

Writeverb

To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; often used reflexively.

Storenoun

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.’;

Writeverb

To set down, as legible characters; to form the conveyance of meaning; to inscribe on any material by a suitable instrument; as, to write the characters called letters; to write figures.

Storenoun

A place of deposit for goods, esp. for large quantities; a storehouse; a warehouse; a magazine.

Writeverb

To set down for reading; to express in legible or intelligible characters; to inscribe; as, to write a deed; to write a bill of divorcement; hence, specifically, to set down in an epistle; to communicate by letter.

‘Last night she enjoined me to write some lines to one she loves.’; ‘I chose to write the thing I durst not speakTo her I loved.’;

Storenoun

Any place where goods are sold, whether by wholesale or retail; a shop.

Writeverb

Hence, to compose or produce, as an author.

‘I purpose to write the history of England from the accession of King James the Second down to a time within the memory of men still living.’;

Storenoun

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.’;

Writeverb

To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave; as, truth written on the heart.

Storeadjective

Accumulated; hoarded.

Writeverb

To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; - often used reflexively.

‘He who writes himself by his own inscription is like an ill painter, who, by writing on a shapeless picture which he hath drawn, is fain to tell passengers what shape it is, which else no man could imagine.’;

Storeverb

To collect as a reserved supply; to accumulate; to lay away.

‘Dora stored what little she could save.’;

Writeverb

To form characters, letters, or figures, as representative of sounds or ideas; to express words and sentences by written signs.

‘So it stead you, I will write,Please you command.’;

Storeverb

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.’;

Writeverb

To be regularly employed or occupied in writing, copying, or accounting; to act as clerk or amanuensis; as, he writes in one of the public offices.

Storeverb

To deposit in a store, warehouse, or other building, for preservation; to warehouse; as, to store goods.

Writeverb

To frame or combine ideas, and express them in written words; to play the author; to recite or relate in books; to compose.

‘They can write up to the dignity and character of the authors.’;

Storenoun

a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services;

‘he bought it at a shop on Cape Cod’;

Writeverb

To compose or send letters.

‘He wrote for all the Jews that went out of his realm up into Jewry concerning their freedom.’;

Storenoun

a supply of something available for future use;

‘he brought back a large store of Cuban cigars’;

Writeverb

produce a literary work;

‘She composed a poem’; ‘He wrote four novels’;

Storenoun

an electronic memory device;

‘a memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached’;

Writeverb

communicate or express by writing;

‘Please write to me every week’;

Storenoun

a depository for goods;

‘storehouses were built close to the docks’;

Writeverb

have (one's written work) issued for publication;

‘How many books did Georges Simenon write?’; ‘She published 25 books during her long career’;

Storeverb

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’;

Writeverb

communicate (with) in writing;

‘Write her soon, please!’;

Storeverb

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’;

Writeverb

communicate by letter;

‘He wrote that he would be coming soon’;

Writeverb

write music;

‘Beethoven composed nine symphonies’;

Writeverb

mark or trace on a surface;

‘The artist wrote Chinese characters on a big piece of white paper’;

Writeverb

record data on a computer;

‘boot-up instructions are written on the hard disk’;

Writeverb

write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word);

‘He spelled the word wrong in this letter’;

Writeverb

mark (letters, words, or other symbols) on a surface, typically paper, with a pen, pencil, or similar implement

‘Alice wrote down the address’; ‘he wrote his name on the paper’; ‘he wrote very neatly in blue ink’;

Writeverb

have the ability to mark coherent letters or words

‘he couldn't read or write’;

Writeverb

fill in or complete (a sheet, cheque, or similar)

‘he had to write a cheque for £800’;

Writeverb

take (an exam or test)

‘I wrote Prof. Weldon's Middle English exam last week’;

Writeverb

write in a cursive hand, as opposed to printing individual letters.

Writeverb

compose, write, and send (a letter) to someone

‘I wrote him a short letter’; ‘Eleanor wrote to her sister Laura in Paris’; ‘I wrote a letter to Alison’; ‘he wrote almost every day’;

Writeverb

write and send a letter to

‘Mother wrote me and told me about poor Simon's death’;

Writeverb

write to an organization, newspaper, etc. with a question, suggestion, or opinion

‘write in with your query’;

Writeverb

compose (a text or work) for written or printed reproduction or publication; put into literary form and set down in writing

‘she wrote a bestselling novel’; ‘he wrote under a pseudonym’; ‘I didn't know you wrote poetry’; ‘he had written about the beauty of Andalusia’;

Writeverb

compose (a musical work)

‘he has written a song specifically for her’;

Writeverb

add or remove a character to or from (a long-running story or series).

Writeverb

describe in writing

‘if I could write the beauty of your eyes’;

Writeverb

enter (data) into a specified storage medium or location in store

‘files can be read and written directly into the file system’;

Writeverb

underwrite (an insurance policy).

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