(n.) A prop, as a timber, placed as a brace or support against the side of a building or other structure; a prop placed beneath anything, as a beam, to prevent it from sinking or sagging.
(v. t.) To support by a shore or shores; to prop; -- usually with up; as, to shore up a building.
(v. t.) The coast or land adjacent to a large body of water, as an ocean, lake, or large river.
(v. t.) To set on shore.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gallic wine sales in the UK have been tumbling for the past 20 years, but the news that France, once the largest exporter to these shores, has slipped behind Australia, the United States, Italy and now South Africa will have producers gnawing their knuckles in frustration.
(2) This isn’t a devolved matter, this is about when they come to our shores here, UK taxpayers and their ability to use UK services,” Creasy said.
(3) They had watched him celebrate mass with three million pilgrims on the packed-out shores of Copacabana beach .
(4) He told MPs that any steps taken to shore up the markets as a result of the referendum would be disclosed afterwards.
(5) A light rain pattered the rooftops of Los Mochis in Friday’s pre-dawn darkness, the town silent and still as the Sea of Cortez lapped its shore.
(6) They moved to shore up May’s position after a weekend of damaging leaks and briefings from inside the cabinet, believed to be fuelled by some of those jostling to succeed the prime minister after her disastrous election result.
(7) New orders and new export growth also slowed and the number of people employed across the manufacturing sector fell, adding to pressure on policymakers at the European Central Bank (ECB) to take more action to shore up growthin the region.
(8) The small prawns found on the shore during the winter exhibited a much altered behaviour.
(9) Total concentrations can range from a few parts per million in non-polluted intertidal and oceanic areas to parts per thousand in heavily contaminated estuarine, lake and near-shore environments.
(10) In the second affair, a month before polling day, Australian authorities intercepted a boatload of distressed people bound for the northern shores.
(11) The ghosts of Barbara Castle and Peter Shore , never mind Hugh Gaitskell (and, for much of his life, Harold Wilson), were never quite exorcised by the New Labour Europhiles.
(12) This condition is a genodermatosis, seen chiefly around the shores of the Mediterranean, characterised by early pigment disturbances which progress virtually inexorably towards a diffuse epitheliomatosis which usually results in death before the age of 20 years.
(13) Brown restored a degree of his authority yesterday when no other cabinet minister echoed James Purnell's call for him to quit, and two critical cabinet figures – David Miliband and John Hutton – decided to shore up Brown's position rather than join a potential rebellion.
(14) Hollande’s dinner and overnight stay at Chequers was also due to cover a strategy for Syria in light of growing signs that the president, Bashar al-Assad, is being shored up by additional military help from Russia and Iran.
(15) The Campbell family has been breeding ponies in Glenshiel for more than 100 years and now runs a small pony trekking centre offering one-hour treks along the pebbly shores of Loch Duich and through the Ratagan forest as well as all-day trail rides up into the hills for the more adventurous.
(16) But that was the fate of Peter Shore, who has died aged 77.
(17) They harvest shellfish standing in the water or meandering through mangrove forests on the shore.
(18) The time to hand over the reins came and went, Keating challenged and lost, before heading to the backbench to lick his wounds and shore up the factional numbers needed for a successful spill.
(19) As candidates and supporters packed out cafes and community centres, desperate to shore up to support on caucus eve, life continued as normal for most Iowans on Monday – with many critical of how hopefuls for the Republican presidential nomination have conducted their campaigns.
(20) ", also suggests the country is, at heart, tolerant of those who come to its shores.
Store
Definition:
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) A place of deposit for goods, esp. for large quantities; a storehouse; a warehouse; a magazine.
(v. t.) Any place where goods are sold, whether by wholesale or retail; a shop.
(v. t.) 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.
(a.) Accumulated; hoarded.
(v. t.) To collect as a reserved supply; to accumulate; to lay away.
(v. t.) To furnish; to supply; to replenish; esp., to stock or furnish against a future time.
(v. t.) To deposit in a store, warehouse, or other building, for preservation; to warehouse; as, to store goods.
Example Sentences:
(1) Multiple stored energy levels were randomly tested and the percent successful defibrillation was plotted against the stored energy, and the raw data were fit by logistic regression.
(2) As the requirements to store and display these images increase, the following questions become important: (a) What methods can be used to ensure that information given to the physician represents the originally acquired data?
(3) Based on our results, we propose the following hypotheses for the neurochemical mechanisms of motion sickness: (1) the histaminergic neuron system is involved in the signs and symptoms of motion sickness, including vomiting; (2) the acetylcholinergic neuron system is involved in the processes of habituation to motion sickness, including neural store mechanisms; and (3) the catecholaminergic neuron system in the brain stem is not related to the development of motion sickness.
(4) We’re learning to store peak power in all kinds of ways: a California auction for new power supply was won by a company that uses extra solar energy to freeze ice, which then melts during the day to supply power.
(5) Irradiation of stored red blood cells (RBC) is increasingly utilized for patients who are immunosuppressed or on chemotherapeutic regimens.
(6) This study was designed to examine the effect of the storage configuration of skin and the ratio of tissue-to-storage medium on the viability of skin stored under refrigeration.
(7) Although the relative contributions of different fuels varies greatly in different organisms, in none is there a simple reliance on stored ATP.
(8) John Lewis’s marketing, advertising and reputation are all built on their promises of good customer services, and it is a large part of what still drives people to their stores despite cheaper online outlets.
(9) Since iron from fortified formulas is well absorbed during the first three months of life, even if it is not immediately used for hemoglobin formation, an inccrease in the iron stores will occur...
(10) The hypothesis that experimentally determined survival times of Treponema pallidum in stored donor blood could be related to the number of treponemes initially present in the treponeme-blood mixtures was investigated by inoculating rabbits with three graded doses of treponemes suspended in donor blood and stored at 4 degrees C for various periods of time.
(11) Paired tolbutamide and glucose infusions using a square wave technique demonstrated that although early phase insulin secretion is dimished in the fetus, this is not due to an absolute deficiency of stored insulin.
(12) Ten weeks of iron therapy was not, however, long enough to increase iron stores.
(13) The first source attended was a private practitioner for 53 % of the patients, another private medical establishment for 4 %, a Government chest clinic for only 11 % and another Government medical establishment for 17 %, 9 % went first to a herbalist and 5 % went to a drug store or treated themselves.
(14) In order to maintain its activity, the enzyme was always stored in 1.0-ml aliquots at temperatures below -20 degrees C and each aliquot when thawed was used immediately; any left over enzyme was never reused.
(15) The present results suggest that TMB-8 blocks twitches by preventing the release of Ca++ ions bound to the intracellular surface of the t-tubular membrane which is often called the store of 'trigger-calcium' ions.
(16) The dermatan and keratan sulfate-storing diseases have corneal clouding.
(17) The immobilized enzyme preparations were stable when stored at 4 degrees C and pH 7.5 for periods up to eight months.
(18) Just a few months ago, a director-level position job for Sears was floated by me from the department store chain's headquarters in Chicago.
(19) These results suggest that bPAG is probably synthesized by trophoblast binucleate cells and stored in granules prior to delivery into the maternal circulation after cell migration.
(20) With the most recent unit, up to ten images can be taken and stored.