different between store vs vein

English

Etymology

From Middle English store, stoure, storre, from Anglo-Norman stor, estore, estorr, estoer, and Old French estour, estor, from Latin instaur?.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: stôr, IPA^(key): /st??/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: stô, IPA^(key): /st??/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: st?r, IPA^(key): /sto(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /sto?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophone: stower (in some accents)

Noun

store (plural stores)

1. A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.

2. A supply held in storage.
   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, II:13:

     But there was an infinite store of mercy in those eyes, for him too a word of pardon even though he had erred and sinned and wandered.

   • By late summer a sufficient store of stone had accumulated, and then the building began […] , under the superintendence of the pigs.
3. (mainly North American) A place where items may be purchased; a shop.
   • 1948, Carey McWilliams, North from Mexico / The Spanish-Speaking People of The United States, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 75,

     In 1866 Colonel J. F. Meline noted that the rebozo had almost disappeared in Santa Fe and that hoop skirts, on sale in the stores, were being widely used.

4. (computing, dated) Memory.

5. A great quantity or number; abundance.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 37:

     I make my love engrafted to this store.

   • 1645, John Milton, L'Allegro

     With store of Ladies, whose bright eies / Rain influence, and judge the prise / Of Wit, or Arms, while both contend / To win her Grace, whom all commend.

Synonyms

• (supply held in storage): stock, supply
• (place from which items may be purchased): boutique, shop (UK); see also Thesaurus:retail store
• (in computing): memory

Derived terms

Related terms

• storage

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: stua
  • ? Rotokas: sitoa
• ? Afrikaans: stoor

Translations

Verb

store (third-person singular simple present stores, present participle storing, simple past and past participle stored)

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

2. Contain.

   The cabinets store all the food the mice would like.

3. Have the capacity and capability to contain.

   They sell boxes that store 24 mason jars.

4. (transitive, computing) To write (something) into memory or registers.

Derived terms

Translations

References

• store at OneLook Dictionary Search
• store on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• store in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• Resto, estro-, resto, roset, rotes, sorte, tores, torse

Danish

Adjective

store

1. definite of stor
2. plural of stor

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

store

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of storen

Anagrams

• roest, roste, stoer

French

Etymology

Latin storea (“mat”), via regional Italian stora (modern Italian stuoia).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st??/

Noun

store m (plural stores)

1. blind, shade (for a window)

Descendants

• ? Catalan: estor
• ? Galician: estor
• ? German: Store
• ? Portuguese: estore

Further reading

• “store” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

References

Anagrams

• resto, rotes, sorte, tores, torse

Latvian

Noun

store f (5th declension)

1. sturgeon

Declension

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman stor, estour, ultimately from Latin instaurare.

Alternative forms

• stor, stoure, storre, stour, stoor, stoore

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st??r/

Noun

store (uncountable)

2. supplies, provisions
3. livestock, farm animals
4. (stored) possessions, savings
5. collection, storage
6. storehouse, storeroom
7. value, importance

Descendants

• English: store
  • Tok Pisin: stua
    • ? Rotokas: sitoa
  • ? Afrikaans: stoor
• Scots: store

References

• “st?r(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.

Etymology 2

From Old English st?r and Old Norse stórr, from Proto-Germanic *st?raz; some forms are also influenced by Middle Dutch stuur.

Alternative forms

• stoor, stour, stur, sture, storre, stowre, stoore, stoure

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sto?r/, /stu?r/, /st??r/

Adjective

store

2. strong, powerful, intense
3. violent, threatening, imposing
4. stern, sharp, harsh
5. numerous, large in number
6. large, big, great
7. coarse, rough

Descendants

• English: stoor, stour (archaic)
• Scots: stour, stoure, sture, stoor, stoar

References

• “st??r(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.

Adverb

store

1. violently, threateningly, imposingly
2. sternly, sharply, harshly

References

• “st??re, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.

Etymology 3

From Old English st?r; possibly from a Celtic language.

Alternative forms

• stor, stoure

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sto?r/

Noun

store

2. incense, frankincense, storax

References

• “st??r(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

store

1. definite singular of stor
2. plural of stor

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

store

1. definite singular of stor
2. plural of stor

Swedish

Adjective

store

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of stor.

Anagrams

• orets, rotes, teros

English

Alternative forms

• wayn (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English veyne, borrowed from Anglo-Norman veine, from Latin v?na (“a blood-vessel; vein; artery”) of uncertain origin. See v?na for more. Displaced native edre, from ?dre (whence edder).

Pronunciation

• enPR: v?n, IPA^(key): /ve?n/
• Homophones: vain, vane
• Rhymes: -e?n

Noun

vein (plural veins)

1. (anatomy) A blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart.
2. (in the plural) The entrails of a shrimp.
3. (botany) In leaves, a thickened portion of the leaf containing the vascular bundle.
4. (zoology) The nervure of an insect’s wing.
5. A stripe or streak of a different colour or composition in materials such as wood, cheese, marble or other rocks.
   1. (geology) A sheetlike body of crystallized minerals within a rock.
6. (figuratively) A topic of discussion; a train of association, thoughts, emotions, etc.
   • 1712, Jonathan Swift, A Proposal For Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue

     He […] is able to open new scenes, and discover a vein of true and noble thinking.

7. (figuratively) A style, tendency, or quality.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Truth

     certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins

   • 1645, Edmund Waller, The Battle Of The Summer Islands

     Invoke the Muses, and improve my vein.

8. A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance.
   • I took another Prism therefore which was free from Veins

Related terms

• in the same vein
• veined
• veinless
• veinlet
• veinlike
• veinstone
• veiny
• venation
• venous
• blue-veined cheese
• deep vein thrombosis
• pulmonary vein
• varicose vein

Translations

Verb

vein (third-person singular simple present veins, present participle veining, simple past and past participle veined)

1. To mark with veins or a vein-like pattern.
   • 1853, Henry William Herbert, The Roman Traitor, Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson, Volume II, Chapter 18, p. 204,^[1]

     […] as he ceased from that wild imprecation, a faint flash of lightning veined the remote horizon, and a low clap of thunder rumbled afar off, echoing among the hills […]

   • 1920, Melville Davisson Post, The Sleuth of St. James’s Square, Chapter 14,^[2]

     “We brought out our maps of the region and showed him the old routes and trails veining the whole of it. […] ”

See also

• artery
• blood vessel
• capillary
• circulatory system
• phlebitis
• vena cava

Further reading

• vein on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• vein (geology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• vein in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• vein in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• vein at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Vien, Vine, nevi, vine

Estonian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Wein during the 19th century, ultimately from Latin v?num. Doublet of viin.

Noun

vein (genitive veini, partitive veini)

1. wine

Declension

Derived terms

• punane vein
• valge vein

Finnish

Verb

vein

1. first-person singular indicative past of viedä

Anagrams

• evin, vien

Gallo

Etymology

From Old French vin, from Latin v?num, from Proto-Indo-European *wóyh?nom.

Noun

vein m (plural veins)

1. wine

Icelandic

Etymology

Back-formation from veina (“to wail”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vei?n/
• Rhymes: -ei?n

Noun

vein n (genitive singular veins, nominative plural vein)

1. wail, lament

Declension

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French vain, from Latin v?nus (“empty”). The noun is derived from the adjective.

Adjective

vein

1. vain (worthless, useless)
2. vain (futile, ineffectual)
3. unfounded, false, misleading
4. (of a person, the heart, the mind, etc.) foolish, gullible

Alternative forms

• veine, veigne, veiin, veiine, ven, vain, vaine, wein, wain, waine

Descendants

• English: vain
• Scots: vane, vain, vaine

Noun

vein (uncountable)

1. something that is worthless or futile
2. idleness, triviality

Alternative forms

• weine; wan, wane (Northern); feinne (Southwestern)

Descendants

• English: vain

References

• “vein, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “vein, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Noun

vein (plural veines)

1. Alternative form of veine (“vein”)

Etymology 3

Adverb

vein

1. Alternative form of fain