What's the difference between storehouse and warehouse?

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.

Warehouse


Definition:

  • (n.) A storehouse for wares, or goods.
  • (v. t.) To deposit or secure in a warehouse.
  • (v. t.) To place in the warehouse of the government or customhouse stores, to be kept until duties are paid.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He gets Lyme disease , he dates indie girls and strippers; he lives in disused warehouses and crappy flats with weirded-out flatmates who want to set him on fire and buy the petrol to do so.
  • (2) It is spending £68m this year to help meet this target, including further investment in its China start-up, expansion of its main UK warehouse in Barnsley, and new facilities in Berlin and Shanghai, and expansion of a warehouse in Ohio.
  • (3) The Brinks Mat gang, some with guns, surprised six security staff as they started the Saturday shift between 6.30am and 8.15am at the warehouse, on the Heathrow industrial estate at Hounslow.
  • (4) Since then he has been chairman of tobacco company Gallaher, music company EMI and fashion retailer New Look and as well as Carphone Warehouse.
  • (5) Zen topped the table with 86%, followed by Utility Warehouse on 81%.
  • (6) Made by Neal Street Productions, the indie Harris founded almost a decade ago with her childhood friend Sam Mendes and former Donmar Warehouse executive producer Caro Newling, the films have attracted widespread praise for their ambition and quality .
  • (7) This part of Paris has come to life again since Bercy’s historic wine warehouses were saved from demolition and converted into boutiques, bars and restaurants – and the Cinémathèque is the cultural heart, with its permanent collection, film festivals and exhibitions.
  • (8) In the meantime, local MPs are to visit the company’s warehouse on 21 March, an invitation the tycoon also extended to members of parliament’s business, innovation and skills select committee.
  • (9) Reader was previously jailed for a total of nine years for conspiracy to handle stolen goods and dishonestly handling cash, after the £26m robbery at the Brink’s-Mat warehouse near Heathrow airport in 1983.
  • (10) The 80 or so permanent warehouse staff believe they were not properly consulted before being laid off.
  • (11) Bahrain, meanwhile, is picking up the lion’s share of the bill for the construction of a Royal Navy base, the Mina Salman support facility, which will include warehouses, a 300-metre jetty, accommodation, sports pitch and helipad.
  • (12) Dixons' boss, Sebastian James, will be chief executive, while Andrew Harrison of Carphone Warehouse becomes his deputy.
  • (13) Andrew Harrison, chief executive of the Carphone Warehouse, and the exclusive independent stockist of the iPhone in the UK, said: "The impact of the iPhone on our industry has been huge, raising the technological bar and forcing other manufacturers and operators to reconsider their strategies."
  • (14) Other Labour sources pointed out that the founder of Carphone Warehouse has donated £150,000 to the Tories and is a friend of many senior Tories.
  • (15) Warsaw said on Sunday that a decision whether to station heavy US equipment at warehouses in Poland would be taken soon.
  • (16) The multimillionaire Carphone Warehouse co-founder Ross was expected to be chosen.
  • (17) Websites affected by the attack include OneStopPhoneShop.co.uk, e2save.com and Mobiles.co.uk, and Carphone Warehouse also provides services to TalkTalk Mobile, Talk Mobile, and to its own recently launched iD mobile network.
  • (18) The judge said – in a written ruling – that the Sony distribution warehouse had been destroyed and looted shortly before midnight on 8 August 2011 during "the widespread civil disorder and rioting which took place in London and elsewhere" after a man was shot and killed by police in Tottenham, north London.
  • (19) For two and a half years the faxes disappeared into the inner workings of Paisley Park (which, it turned out, actually looked like a B&Q warehouse), unacknowledged, unanswered, and, for all we knew, unseen.
  • (20) The sale follows the announcement on Monday from Carphone Warehouse that it was pulling the plug on its Best Buy chain.

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