Sekirov Dictionary

overstore

verb 6
noun 3
adjective 1
forms 3

verb6

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To overstock; to save more than is needed.
- This fish is long in growing; but breeds exceedingly in a water that pleases him; yea, in many ponds so fast, as to overstore them, and starve the other fish. — 1653
•
To open more stores than the retail market needs.
- This is an area of vast geography and great retail growth. We can't overstore it. — 1972
•
To overwrite memory or storage.
- An attempt to overstore this new pitch command resulted in a real-time pitch maneuver being commanded 23 times at 1-minute intervals, due to an undetected bit error in the command message. — 1967
•
To imprint (something) upon the memory such that it includes additional emotional content and/or influences other thoughts and memories.
- This in turn can cause a memory to be “overstored,” as a result of which it vividly resurfaces, sparking the symptoms of PTSD. — 2012
•
To overfill or overschool the mind (with certain thoughts).
- Miss Goode became temporarily lost in the mazes of her memory, which was, indeed, somewhat overstored with sayings which had been repeated to her. — 1894
(no longer used) To attempt to store more than the capacity into which something is put.

noun3

The opening of too many stores or stores that are too large.
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The overwriting of memory or data, especially when done in error.
- If the overstore involves non-reducible data, i.e. data which cannot be effectively stored by interpolation at larger intervals from the original data, then the run will abort. — 1970
•
An instance of overstoring, a surplus.
- So may the bread, this day sent down from heaven, Suffice for all the seven; And to each week, till toil and care are o'er, Each Sabbath still may yield its goodly overstore. — 1881

adjective1

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Located above a store.
- […] ; 72,364 ( 29.5 % ) are two-family homes; the remainder, 93,644, are multifamily and apartment-overstore dwellings. — 1939

forms

overstored · overstoring · overstores

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