What's the difference between godown and storehouse?

Godown


Definition:

  • (n.) A warehouse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The curator of the collection, Rajeev Sethi, told The New York Times: "The concept of art in public space is a very serious issue because art cannot shrivel up and shrink into investment portfolios or disappear into godowns [warehouses] or galleries.
  • (2) The merchants who deepened the Bengal famine by amassing grain in their godowns.
  • (3) I want to know I'm not wearing something stitched by kids kept locked in backstreet godowns, never seeing the light of day, never getting a penny.
  • (4) Monitoring observations made on 60 operators involved in pesticide application work in godowns and warehouses and 60 matched control workers are reported.

Storehouse


Definition:

  • (n.) A building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions; a magazine; a repository; a warehouse.
  • (n.) A mass or quality laid up.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Storehouse later sold BHS for £200m in 2000 to Green, and he quickly won plaudits for the speed with which he brought it back to profitability.
  • (2) The ongoing loss of the world's tropical rain forests threatens to destroy a vast storehouse of untested biological compounds.
  • (3) It floated on the stock market in the 1930s before merging with Mothercare and Habitat in 1986 to become Storehouse, which was led by Sir Terence Conran.
  • (4) When the molten surface of the earth solidified over 4 X 10(9) years ago the quantity of phosphorus to be contained in the storehouse of the new planet had already been resolved.
  • (5) The Xenopus oocyte nucleus (GV) is a storehouse for a large number of proteins that are used during early development.
  • (6) Those who turned up early outside the Guinness Storehouse visitor centre to see the royal couple only managed a distant glimpse of the car.
  • (7) When he was 15 King went on to Storehouse, a Negro college in Atlanta.
  • (8) The telephone companies have resisted having to store customer data for additional periods of time on behalf of the NSA, and any new third-party private storehouse of metadata would have to be created from scratch.
  • (9) Amid a drive to boost Russia’s cultural output and offer an alternative to the Hollywood films that dominate the country’s box office, the government said earlier this month it had approved a private-sector investment in Mosfilm that will include building two studios, a costume storehouse, a cinema and a concert hall.
  • (10) The toxins of different storehouse moulds were also examined.
  • (11) These extremely high concentrations were found only in the vicinity of storehouses where treated seed was kept.
  • (12) Whole-plant, high-fiber foods are complex storehouses of a diversity of polymers, including resistant starch, and of bioactive compounds.
  • (13) Back over on Smithfield Square, the Old Jameson whiskey distillery offers tastings and tours (from €14.40; I’ve never got round to trying it though), as does the hugely popular Guinness Storehouse across the river in the Liberties area (I have tried this: it’s fun).
  • (14) John Williams runs the Storehouse community centre and food bank on the Queensway estate in Southend.
  • (15) The Continental Congress established laboratories and storehouses to serve the needs of the army.
  • (16) But it was when he bought Bhs from Storehouse in 2000, and Arcadia two years later, that he gained real recognition.
  • (17) Also the group of storehouse- and court personnel as well as the drivers, being exposed only to a raiting sound level of approx.
  • (18) External environment of vegetable storehouses and catering establishements in the foci of far-eastern scarlatina-like in the Primorsk territory was found to be considerably contaminated with Yersinia pseudotuberculosis.
  • (19) A woman who was 41 y of age developed pulmonary edema after massive fungal inhalation at an orange storehouse.
  • (20) The patient, aged 23, was employed in a florist storehouse.

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