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Meaning of overstore | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. To overstock; to save more than is needed.
  2. To attempt to store more than the capacity into which something is put.
    obsolete
  3. To open more stores than the retail market needs.
  4. To imprint (something) upon the memory such that it includes additional emotional content and/or influences other thoughts and memories.
  5. To overfill or overschool the mind (with certain thoughts).
  6. To overwrite memory or storage.

Examples

“This fish is long in growing; but breeds exceedingly in a water that pleases him; yea, in many ponds so fast, as to overstore them, and starve the other fish.”
“even the Ocean it self would have been long since over-stored with Fiſh”
“It merely results in storing up energy at a very rapid rate; you can overstore and then you feel the intoxication of it, but that is overcome by a reasonable use of the breathing exercise.”
“If the market cannot be counted on for supplies later in the season and information on crops and stocks is absent, those who are able will tend to overstore in their own households.”
“With improved protein diets, there seems to be biochemical message which tells the organisms to overstore essential amino acids and other brain chemicals.”
“Thus, a larger population of seeds is left in the ground to germinate, thereby exploiting the tendency of squirrels, jays, and other animals to overstore nuts by burying (planting) them when available.”
“Like fat cells, the spleen can overstore.”
“On every hand flourish trees, in the prime of a full score of years, Nature's aviaries, which are preparing hereafter to overstore the fruiteries from their burdened boughs, and now diversify the prospect with green and shade.”
“When the gravity of the gyle is about 45 lbs. per barrel, and the temperature of setting 58° or 60° Fahr. (14°.4 to 15°.5 C.) , the atmosphere being at the ordinary temperature and barometric pressure, provided the yeast be of good quality, about 2 to 2 1/2 lbs per barrel will be sufficient, and it may happen that this quantity may in some cases overstore the tun.”
“This is an area of vast geography and great retail growth. We can't overstore it.”
“One can observe expansion-deterring investment in retailing, for example, where a firm may "overstore" a geographic area to limit the expansion of rivals.”
“While it is in their best interest to not overstore an area and to encourage a tenant mix that fits the marketplace, there have been may examples of malls that should not have been built or at least should not have been built with the mix of department store tenants as anchors which have emerged.”
“And, even if you do not unintentionally overstore your markets, over-expansion by your competitors will produce similar effects.”
“This inquisition, with its ardent commitment to interpretation and further interpretation, is the complementary process by which presented images overstored with expressive intention can have their meanings developed, brought forth in the full array of their latent possibility.”
“There is experimental evidence showing that cortisol restrains the intensity and duration of the emergency reaction to stress, and catecholamines have been shown to enhance emotional memory in the amygdala (see subsection on "Noradrenaline"). Thus, individuals lacking cortisol would overstore traumatic memories .”
“This in turn can cause a memory to be “overstored,” as a result of which it vividly resurfaces, sparking the symptoms of PTSD.”
“Thoughts are also subject to the dominant receptiveness of overstored delusional memory structures.”
“The wag, knowing the natural frailties of the parents, then asked— "Who combed your hair this morning, my pretty little boy?" and the answer was, very much to the astonishment of the parents, no doubt— "The Holy Ghost." While it is quite right to store the infant mind so far, it is just possible — indeed likely to overstore it.”
“Miss Goode became temporarily lost in the mazes of her memory, which was, indeed, somewhat overstored with sayings which had been repeated to her.”
“Carstairs, on The Behemoth, drifted into sight as they started, his mind overstored by a night's reading, over-full of wise saws as to how to hunt a pack of hounds.”
“An attempt to overstore this new pitch command resulted in a real-time pitch maneuver being commanded 23 times at 1-minute intervals, due to an undetected bit error in the command message.”
“Other FPL/I debugging features include: 1. each time or each n times that a particular identifier is referenced in any way or is referenced in order to overstore the element value, the execution of the program is temporarily suspended, the value of the identifier is displayed, and the CAPS user given the opportunity to use any of the available debugging features;”
“BLH data from successive iterations overstore the original set of integrated BLH data.”
“If a satellite ephemeris is used for a planetary system, the gravitational constant for the planetary system obtained from the satellite ephemeris will overstore the value from the planetary ephemeris in the ODP.”
“At user option, data from this operation overstore or are appended to original data.”
“A response of y will overstore the passwdfile as, again, the previous message is simply a warning.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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