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Storing

Store \Store\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stored; p. pr. & vb. n. Storing.] [OE. storen, OF. estorer to construct, restore, store, LL. staurare, for L. instaurare to renew, restore; in + staurare (in comp.) Cf. Instore, Instaurate, Restore, Story a floor.]

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

    Dora stored what little she could save.
    --Tennyson.

  2. To furnish; to supply; to replenish; esp., to stock or furnish against a future time.

    Her mind with thousand virtues stored.
    --Prior.

    Wise Plato said the world with men was stored.
    --Denham.

    Having stored a pond of four acres with carps, tench, and other fish.
    --Sir M. Hale.

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

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storing

vb. (present participle of store English)

Usage examples of "storing".

Under the screens were cabinets of a type in which crystals storing huge quantities of data were carefully filed along with additional compact devices that he did not recognize but took for astronomical data-recorders.

Still, the caves provide plenty of space for storing the young wines and keep the steady temperature necessary for proper fermentation.

Though the youngsters were far too shy to speak, she could sense that they were listening very closely and storing every word exchanged.

Its mineral content contains the same substances used in storing sounds for reproduction in computer equipment.

He would not want the world and Barevi to know that, at one time, he was storing illegal substances: flip, strew, and lily.

Iantine caught himself wanting to sketch the distinguished-looking couple, but he'd hidden his pad in the pile of tables and had to content himself with storing the details in his mind.

Tillek's port shipped quantities of timber, as well as storing it for the building of hulls.

There's a rock shelf for repairs and careening, a section for building, as well as a very dry inside cave for storing wood.

Asgenar followed, storing up hopeful suggestions, racking his brains to think of some logical and ultimately successful course of action.

The man—insane or not-figured out a way of stabilizing and storing atomic hydrogen for his rockets.

For steering in space, we'll use atomic hydrogen rockets, storing the atomic gas by the Wade method in tanks in the hold.

You remember, of course, that the Kaxorians had great reservoirs for storing light-energy in a bound state in their giant planes.

I was wondering if we could use Wade's system of storing the atomic hydrogen in solution.

That yields about 100,000 calories for every two grams, and since this is a method of storing heat energy, and your molecular motion director is a method of converting heat into mechanical work with 100 per cent efficiency, why not use that?

All we need, really, is a method of storing heat energy for use while we're in space.