storing

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
store/stɔː(r)/

▶noun

• 1 a quantity or supply kept for use as needed.

  ■ (stores) supplies of equipment and food kept for use by members of an army, navy, or other institution.

• 2 a place where things are kept for future use or sale.

  ■ chiefly N. Amer. a shop.

  ■ Brit. a large shop selling different types of goods.

  ■ (also stores) Brit. a shop selling basic necessities.

• 3 Brit. a computer memory.

• 4 a sheep, steer, cow, or pig acquired or kept for fattening.

▶verb

• 1 keep or accumulate for future use.

• 2 retain or enter (information) for future electronic retrieval.

• 3 (be stored with) have a useful supply of.

– phrases
in store about to happen.
set (or lay or put) store by (or on) consider to be of a particular degree of importance: she set much store by privacy.

– derivatives
storable adjective,
storer noun.

– origin ME: shortening of OFr. estore (n.), estorer (v.), from L. instaurare ‘renew’; cf. restore.