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• animals storing up food for the winter
• you can store coffee beans in the freezer to keep them fresh.
• he hoped the electronic equipment was safely stored away.
• thousands of pieces of data are stored in a computer's memory.

store

1. to put something somewhere and keep it there to use later
• animals storing up food for the winter
• You can store coffee beans in the freezer to keep them fresh.
• He hoped the electronic equipment was safely stored away.
2. to keep information or facts in a computer or in your brain
• Thousands of pieces of data are stored in a computer's memory.

Extra Examples

• Butane can be conveniently stored as a liquid in a can.
• The paintings were carefully stored in crates dependent on their size.
• electronically stored information
• Each department has a different system for storing and retrieving data.
• Each piece of information is stored in only one place in the database.
• The squirrels are storing up food for the winter.
• Thousands of pieces of data are stored in a computer’s memory.
• We are conducting research into how information is stored in the brain.

Verb Forms

• present simple I / you / we / they store
• he / she / it stores
• past simple stored
• past participle stored
• -ing form storing

Word Origin

• Middle English: shortening of Old French estore (noun), estorer (verb), from Latin instaurare ‘renew’; compare with restore.