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WAREHOUSE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A storehouse for goods and merchandise

Synonyms:

storage warehouse; warehouse

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("warehouse" is a kind of...):

depot; entrepot; storage; store; storehouse (a depository for goods)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "warehouse"):

godown ((in India and Malaysia) a warehouse)

Derivation:

warehouse (store in a warehouse)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Store in a warehouse

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "warehouse" is one way to...):

store (find a place for and put away for storage)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They warehouse the goods

Derivation:

warehouse (a storehouse for goods and merchandise)

warehouser (a workman who manages or works in a warehouse)

warehousing (depositing in a warehouse)

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 Context examples: 

And tell my dear Lydia not to give any directions about her clothes till she has seen me, for she does not know which are the best warehouses.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

This made a hole in the six or seven shillings, I know well; and I was out at the warehouse all day, and had to support myself on that money all the week.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Glad was I to get him out of the silk warehouse, and then out of a jewellers shop: the more he bought me, the more my cheek burned with a sense of annoyance and degradation.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Mr. Quinion then formally engaged me to be as useful as I could in the warehouse of Murdstone and Grinby, at a salary, I think, of six shillings a week.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But I never, happily for me no doubt, made a single acquaintance, or spoke to any of the many boys whom I saw daily in going to the warehouse, in coming from it, and in prowling about the streets at meal-times.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

My working place was established in a corner of the warehouse, where Mr. Quinion could see me, when he chose to stand up on the bottom rail of his stool in the counting-house, and look at me through a window above the desk.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I discovered, however, that this youth had not been christened by that name, but that it had been bestowed upon him in the warehouse, on account of his complexion, which was pale or mealy.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Accordingly, when the Saturday night came, and we were all waiting in the warehouse to be paid, and Tipp the carman, who always took precedence, went in first to draw his money, I shook Mick Walker by the hand; asked him, when it came to his turn to be paid, to say to Mr. Quinion that I had gone to move my box to Tipp's; and, bidding a last good night to Mealy Potatoes, ran away.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)