Meaning of flat store | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A crooked gambling establishment, such as a casino running rigged or fixed (dishonest) games of chance.
   slang
2. A storage facility in which the material stored is simply piled on a floor (as opposed to a bin or silo).

Examples

“He had told me that in the old days in Chicago he had run a flat-store with a partner who had tuberculosis and also smoked cigars.”

“In shared-memory languages for parallel programming, the model is one of a global flat store equipped with various synchronization primitives.”

“The PDC uses the AD but exposes the data as a flat store, as in Windows NT.”

“2001: Elizabeth A. Wheeler, Uncontained: Urban Fiction in Postwar America, p139 (The Rutgers University Press; →ISBN (10), →ISBN (13)); quoting an unknown source “It sat on the top of a steep, unpaved hill and commanded an uninspiring view of clean, gray concrete that was six lanes wide and an assortment of boxy, flat store buildings and spacious super gas-stations” (117).”

“These systems are often cheaper to install than conventional horizontal ducting and have the advantage over above-floor ducts that they are unlikely to be damaged by tractors unloading the flat store.”

“It is sometimes necessary to provide storage for grain beyond the normal capacity of an elevator facility or elsewhere. In such conditions a relatively inexpensive expedient is the flat store. This is little more than a cover for a pile of dry grain adopting its natural form as poured.”

“The space-saving arrangement of the stores and the controlled cooling down of coils in the flat store which led to reduced handling times and inventory volume had a very positive effect on the efficiency of the cold rolling mill and product availability for shipment.”

“In some flat stores a small trough or day silo is located on the perimeter inside the flat store which is also accessed from the outside of the flat store.”

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