Shop vs. Store

An establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally only a physical location, but now a virtual establishment as well.

A place where things are manufactured or crafted; a workshop.

A large garage where vehicle mechanics work.

Workplace; office. Used mainly in expressions such as shop talk, closed shop and shop floor.

A variety of classes taught in junior or senior high school that teach vocational skill.

An establishment where a barber or beautician works.

Example: ‘a barber shop’;

An act of shopping, especially routine shopping for food and other domestic supplies.

Example: ‘This is where I do my weekly shop.’;

Discussion of business or professional affairs.

(intransitive) To visit stores or shops to browse or explore merchandise, especially with the intention of buying such merchandise.

Example: ‘I went shopping early before the Christmas rush.’; ‘He’s shopping for clothes.’;

(transitive) To purchase products from (a range or catalogue, etc.).

Example: ‘Shop our new arrivals.’;

To report the criminal activities or whereabouts of someone to an authority.

Example: ‘He shopped his mates in to the police.’;

Shorthand for photoshop; to digitally edit a picture or photograph.

(dated) Used to attract the services of a shop assistant

imp. of Shape. Shaped.

A building or an apartment in which goods, wares, drugs, etc., are sold by retail.

Example: ‘From shop to shopWandering, and littering with unfolded silksThe polished counter.’;

A building in which mechanics or artisans work; as, a shoe shop; a car shop.

Example: ‘A tailor called me in his shop.’;

A person's occupation, business, profession, or the like, as a subject of attention, interest, conversation, etc.; - sometimes in deprecation or disapproval; as, to talk shop at a party. Also used attributively, as in shop talk.

A place where any industry is carried on; as, a chemist's shop;

Any place of resort, as one's house, a restaurant, etc.

the group of workers and the activities controlled by an administrator; as, to have five people in one's shop.

To visit shops for the purpose of purchasing goods.

Example: ‘He was engaged with his mother and some ladies to go shopping.’;

a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services;

Example: ‘he bought it at a shop on Cape Cod’;

small workplace where handcrafts or manufacturing are done

a course of instruction in a trade (as carpentry or electricity);

Example: ‘I built a birdhouse in shop’;

do one's shopping;

Example: ‘She goes shopping every Friday’;

do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of

shop around; not necessarily buying;

Example: ‘I don't need help, I'm just browsing’;

give away information about somebody;

Example: ‘He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam’;

A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.

Example: ‘This building used to be a store for old tires.’;

A supply held in storage.

(mainly North American) A place where items may be purchased.

Example: ‘I need to get some milk from the grocery store.’;

Memory.

Example: ‘The main store of 1000 36-bit words seemed large at the time.’;

A large amount of information retained in one's memory.

Example: ‘His vast store of jokes means he has something funny to say in every situation.’;

A great quantity or number; abundance.

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

Example: ‘I'll store these books in the attic.’;

To write (something) into memory or registers.

Example: ‘This operation stores the result on the stack.’;

(intransitive) To remain in good condition while stored.

Example: ‘I don't think that kind of cheese will store well in the refrigerator.’;

That which is accumulated, or massed together; a source from which supplies may be drawn; hence, an abundance; a great quantity, or a great number.

Example: ‘The ships are fraught with store of victuals.’; ‘With store of ladies, whose bright eyesRain influence, and give the prize.’;

A place of deposit for goods, esp. for large quantities; a storehouse; a warehouse; a magazine.

Any place where goods are sold, whether by wholesale or retail; a shop.

Articles, especially of food, accumulated for some specific object; supplies, as of provisions, arms, ammunition, and the like; as, the stores of an army, of a ship, of a family.

Example: ‘His swine, his horse, his stoor, and his poultry.’; ‘In his needy shop a tortoise hung,An alligator stuffed, and other skinsOf ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelvesA beggarly account of empty boxes.’; ‘Sulphurous and nitrous foam, . . . Concocted and adjusted, they reducedTo blackest grain, and into store conveyed.’;

Accumulated; hoarded.

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

Example: ‘Dora stored what little she could save.’;

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

Example: ‘Her mind with thousand virtues stored.’; ‘Wise Plato said the world with men was stored.’; ‘Having stored a pond of four acres with carps, tench, and other fish.’;

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

a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services;

Example: ‘he bought it at a shop on Cape Cod’;

a supply of something available for future use;

Example: ‘he brought back a large store of Cuban cigars’;

an electronic memory device;

Example: ‘a memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached’;

a depository for goods;

Example: ‘storehouses were built close to the docks’;

keep or lay aside for future use;

Example: ‘store grain for the winter’; ‘The bear stores fat for the period of hibernation when he doesn't eat’;

find a place for and put away for storage;

Example: ‘where should we stow the vegetables?’; ‘I couldn't store all the books in the attic so I sold some’;