different between storey vs storer

English

Alternative forms

• story (US)

Etymology

From Middle English story, via Medieval Latin historia (“narrative, illustraton, frieze”) from Ancient Greek ??????? (historí?, “learning through research”), from ??????? (historé?, “to research, inquire (and record)”), from ????? (híst?r, “the knowing, wise one”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, know”). The current sense arose from narrative friezes on upper levels of medieval buildings, esp. churches.

An alternative etymology derives Middle English story from Old French *estoree (“a thing built, building”), from estoree (“built”), feminine past participle of estorer (“to build”), from Latin instaurare (“to construct, build, erect”), but this seems unlikely since historia already had the meaning "storey of a building" in Anglo-Latin.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?st????/, /?st???i/
• Rhymes: -??ri
• Homophone: story

Noun

storey (plural storeys)

1. (obsolete) A building; an edifice.
2. (Britain) A floor or level of a building or ship.

   Synonyms: floor, level, (US) story

   Coordinate term: deck

3. (typography) A vertical level in certain letters, such as a and g.

Usage notes

The terms floor, level, or deck are used in a similar way, except that it is usual to talk of a “14-storey building”, but “the 14th floor”. The floor at ground or street level is called the ground floor in many places. The words storey and floor exclude levels of the building that are not covered by a roof, such as the terrace on the top roof of many buildings.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• storey on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Storey in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• Oyster, Troyes, oyster, oystre, toyers, tyroes

English

Etymology

store +? -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??r?(r)

Noun

storer (plural storers)

1. a young tree, especially one reserved when others are cut; a standel.
   • 1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, p. 221:

     It was ordered that twelve standels or storers per acre in coppices or underwoods of twenty-four years' growth or less should be excluded from felling, and twelve 'great trees' on every acre above twenty-four years' growth.

2. One who lays up or forms a store.

Anagrams

• Torres, re-sort, resort, retros, roster, sorter