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• Small, mobile containers designed to hold food or other goods:
  • Container (cargo), a shipping container, storage for cargo transport
  • Food storage, containers such as Tupperware and Rubbermaid brands
  • Magazine (artillery), an item or place within which ammunition is stored
  • See also Packaging and labelling, commercial packaging used to store consumer goods, such as boxes, bottles, and cans

• Furniture designed to hold small objects:
  • Bookcase, Cabinet (furniture), Chest (furniture), Cupboard, Desk, Sideboard (hutch), Refrigerator, etc.

• Larger containers typically designed to store special kinds of objects or substances:
  • Reservoir (water), an artificial lake
  • Storage tank
  • Dry cask storage, storing high-level radioactive waste

• Special rooms, or parts of buildings, designed for storage:
  • Storage room, Closet, Cellar, Attic

• Special buildings, or collections of buildings, designed to hold large objects, or a great many objects of a particular type:
  • Shed, Depot, Garage (house)
  • Warehouse, a commercial building for storage of goods
  • Self storage, public storage facility
  • Ammunition dump, a military storage facility for live ammunition and explosives

• Devices designed to store and release electrical charge or energy:
  • Capacitor, stores electric charge
  • battery, a store of electricity

• Devices designed for information storage and retrieval:
  • Computer storage, Hard drive, Computer memory
  • See also Store and forward, relaying information through one or more intermediate stations which temporarily store the information

• Collections of stored information:
  • Archive, or archives — a collection of records
  • Books store the wisdom of the ages
  • Memory stores the record of experience

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See also

• Hoarding
• Store
• Storativity – a measure of storage

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