storedadj.
/stɔːd/, U.S. /stɔrd/ 1.
a. Laid up in store; kept in reserve as a store or stock; accumulated, hoarded.
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the mind > possession > supply > storage > [adjective] > stored
uplaidc1400
stored1581
bottled1619
funded1844
reservoired1851
stowed1856
stored1859
1581 A. Hall tr. Homer 10 Bks. Iliades v. 80 Sith fate no children did him leaue He forced was his stored wealth to strangers to bequeaue.
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear vii. 320 All the stor'd vengeances of heauen fall on her ingratful top. View more context for this quotation
1879 W. Cory Lett. & Jrnls. (1897) 449 The stored water on which one's gardening depends.
1881 S. P. Thompson in Nature 2 June 106/2 A dozen times as much stored energy.
1885 Athenæum 28 Nov. 698/1 His three volumes are the stored harvest of a long..life.
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. IV. 609 Only a small portion of the stored fat in the body comes directly from that consumed with the food.
b. with up, away.
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the mind > possession > supply > storage > [adjective] > stored
uplaidc1400
stored1581
bottled1619
funded1844
reservoired1851
stowed1856
stored1859
1859 C. J. Lever Davenport Dunn lxxv. 658 You..know little of the stored-up happiness your very name has afforded me for many a day.
1890 L. C. Miall Obj. Lessons from Nature ii. xv. 196 You have only to dry..the plant to get back a good deal of its stored-up energy.
1900 Everybody's Mag. 3 581/1 Others came to offer certain stored-away preserves.
c. stored program n. a program that is stored in a computer in the same way as data, esp. one that can be automatically manipulated like data; frequently attributive.
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society > computing and information technology > programming language > program or code > [noun] > capable of manipulation
autocode1956
stored program1957
1957 D. D. McCracken Digital Computer Programming i. 4 We speak of modern computers as being stored program machines.
1964 Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 115 654 The LINC is a small stored-program digital computer which uses transistor circuitry and a random-access ferrite-core memory.
1970 O. Dopping Computers & Data Processing vi. 93 The use of a stored program, which can be modified by the machine itself, is one of the basic ideas in the design of a computer.
1983 Sci. Amer. Jan. 92/3 The stops and combination pistons [of the organ]..are under the control of microprocessors having stored-program capabilities.
2. Stocked, furnished or supplied with a store. Also with qualifying adverb.
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the mind > possession > supply > [adjective] > provided or supplied with something > stocked or stored with
plenished1586
stored1612
stockeda1796
1612 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 235 Walled Townes, stored Arcenals and Armories.
1835 J. Duncan Nat. Hist. Beetles (Naturalist's Libr.: Entomol. II) 81 A well-stored cabinet of Coleoptera.
1865 Lea in E. van D. Lecky Mem. W. E. H. Lecky (1909) 45 Your richly stored pages show how much there is to be learned.
1882 A. Bain James Mill vi. 277 Men of stored and cultivated minds.
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