WAREHOUSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does warehouse mean? 

• WAREHOUSE (noun)
  The noun WAREHOUSE has 1 sense:

1. a storehouse for goods and merchandise

  Familiarity information: WAREHOUSE used as a noun is very rare.

• WAREHOUSE (verb)
  The verb WAREHOUSE has 1 sense:

1. store in a warehouse

  Familiarity information: WAREHOUSE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WAREHOUSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A storehouse for goods and merchandise

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

storage warehouse; warehouse

Hypernyms ("warehouse" is a kind of...):

depot; entrepot; storage; store; storehouse (a depository for goods)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "warehouse"):

godown ((in India and Malaysia) a warehouse)

Derivation:

warehouse (store in a warehouse)

• WAREHOUSE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they warehouse    ... he / she / it warehouses   
Past simple: warehoused   
Past participle: warehoused   
-ing form: warehousing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Store in a warehouse

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "warehouse" is one way to...):

store (find a place for and put away for storage)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They warehouse the goods

Derivation:

warehouse (a storehouse for goods and merchandise)

warehouser (a workman who manages or works in a warehouse)

warehousing (depositing in a warehouse)

 Context examples 

The Netherfield ladies would have had difficulty in believing that a man who lived by trade, and within view of his own warehouses, could have been so well-bred and agreeable.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Murdstone and Grinby's warehouse was at the waterside.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Mr. Rochester obliged me to go to a certain silk warehouse: there I was ordered to choose half-a-dozen dresses.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She could soon tell at what coachmaker's the new carriage was building, by what painter Mr. Willoughby's portrait was drawn, and at what warehouse Miss Grey's clothes might be seen.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Mrs. Hughes saw all the clothes after they came from the warehouse.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Anyway, the company said they were out of that model, but it would be delivered in ten days. (Mercury was still retrograde.) The mattress came to the delivery warehouse, and the inspector noticed damage.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

An authorized person who is appointed to audit and officially inspect the warehousing, prescribing, dispensing, distribution, administration and documentation practices related to utilization of investigational agent(s) within a clinical study or/and institution, in order to confirm the strict drug(s) accountability and to ensure patients safety and the clinical site compliance with protocol(s) and federal drug laws and regulations.

(Agent Inspector, NCI Thesaurus)

Young as I was, I knew that it was here, in the forest of merchant shipping, in the bales which swung up to the warehouse windows, in the loaded waggons which roared over the cobblestones, that the power of Britain lay.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Among my headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the British barque Sophy Anderson, of the singular adventures of the Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the Camberwell poisoning case.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She looked up at the lowering sky, down at the crimson bow already flecked with black, forward along the muddy street, then one long, lingering look behind, at a certain grimy warehouse, with 'Hoffmann, Swartz, & Co.' over the door, and said to herself, with a sternly reproachful air...

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)