overstore

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ store.

Verb

overstore (third-person singular simple present overstores, present participle overstoring, simple past and past participle overstored)

1. To overstock; to save more than is needed.
   • 1653, Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler:

     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.

   • a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:

     even the Ocean it self would have been long since over-stored with Fiſh

   • 1923, Mary C. Ferriter, Truth of Life, Love, Liberty, page 100:

     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.

   • 1985, Agricultural Markets in the Semi-arid Tropics, page 310:

     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.

   • 1985, Ted Tjossem, “Showcase/Forum Summarization Statement”, in The President's Committee on Mental Retardation: National Prevention Showcase and Forum: September 15-17, 1982, page 329:

     With improved protein diets, there seems to be biochemical message which tells the organisms to overstore essential amino acids and other brain chemicals.

   • 2014, Ken Mudge, Steve Gabriel, Farming the Woods, page 103:

     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.

   • 2016, Steven Rosenblatt, Keith Kirts, The Birth of Acupuncture in America:

     Like fat cells, the spleen can overstore.

2. (obsolete) To attempt to store more than the capacity into which something is put.
   • 1847 December, “Horticulture, Natural and Intellectual”, in The Yale Literary Magazine, volume 13, number 2, page 50:

     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.

   • 1877, Encyclopædia of Chemistry, page 316:

     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.

3. To open more stores than the retail market needs.
   • 1972, Booton Herndon, Satisfaction Guaranteed:

     This is an area of vast geography and great retail growth. We can't overstore it.

   • 1981, Steven C. Salop, Strategy, Predation, and Antitrust Analysis, page 55:

     One can observe expansion-deterring investment in retailing, for example, where a firm may "overstore" a geographic area to limit the expansion of rivals.

   • 1982, John S. Thompson, Site Selection, page 193:

     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.

   • 1990, Challenges for the Convenience Store Industry in the 1990s, page 175:

     And, even if you do not unintentionally overstore your markets, over-expansion by your competitors will produce similar effects.

4. To imprint (something) upon the memory such that it includes additional emotional content and/or influences other thoughts and memories.
   • 1986, Richard H. Brodhead, The School of Hawthorne, page 167:

     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.

   • 2006, Marcus Lira Brandão, Frederico Guilherme Graeff, Neurobiology of Mental Disorders, page 36:

     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 .

   • 2012, Maxwell J. Mehlman, Transhumanist Dreams and Dystopian Nightmares, page 198:

     This in turn can cause a memory to be “overstored,” as a result of which it vividly resurfaces, sparking the symptoms of PTSD.

   • 2023, Dieter K. Christmann, Schizophrenia - Sick search engine the brain, page 140:

     Thoughts are also subject to the dominant receptiveness of overstored delusional memory structures.

5. To overfill or overschool the mind (with certain thoughts).
   • 1878, Archibald Paul, Random Writings, page 113:

     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.

   • 1894, All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal - Volume 75, page 267:

     Miss Goode became temporarily lost in the mazes of her memory, which was, indeed, somewhat overstored with sayings which had been repeated to her.

   • 1904, Dorothea Conyers, Peter's Pedigree, page 173:

     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.

6. (computing) To overwrite memory or storage.
   • 1967, Boeing Company, Lunar Orbiter I: Extended-mission Operations - Issue 848, page 3:

     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.

   • 1968, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus). Department of Computer Science, Internal Report - Issue 257, page 46:

     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;

   • 1976, Ramani Ramakrishnan, Donald Randall, Robert N. Hosier, A computer program to predict rotor rotational noise of a stationary rotor from blade loading coefficients, page 26:

     BLH data from successive iterations overstore the original set of integrated BLH data.

   • 2005, Theodore D. Moyer, Formulation for Observed and Computed Values of Deep Space, page 74:

     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.

   • 2007, Leonard L. Grigsby, Power System Stability and Control, page 14-48:

     At user option, data from this operation overstore or are appended to original data.

   • 2018, Raj Rajgopal, Handbook of Heterogeneous Networking, page 83-9:

     A response of y will overstore the passwdfile as, again, the previous message is simply a warning.

Noun

overstore (plural overstores)

1. An instance of overstoring, a surplus.
   • 1881, The Christian miscellany, and family visiter, page 109:

     So may the bread, this day sent down from heaven, Suffice for all the seven; And to each week, till toil and care are o'er, Each Sabbath still may yield its goodly overstore.

   • 1881, Wilhelm Jensen, Fair Isle: A Tale in Verse, page 18:

     Thus Nature grants Enough for man's support; yea, more, she gives An overstore of all his simplest wants.

   • 1913 May, “Things as they are”, in Pearson's Magazine, volume 29, number 5, page 638:

     At the thought, horror freezes the vitals of all the political antiquarians, of which we have an overstore.

   • 1987, David Monroe Shoup, Thomas Hayes, Howard Jablon, The Marines in China, 1927-1928, page 119:

     It is not until seeing on every hand the risks taken , and the unspeakable torture and hardships which those in quest of this momentary pleasure and the release of a seeming overstore of nervous energy , are more than willing to endure, that one begins to wonder if those psychologists who base all human actions upon the one and powerful propelling force of the will to satisfy the sex desire have not a fair basis for their conclusions.

2. The opening of too many stores or stores that are too large.
   • 1978, Sumitomo Bank Review: Economic Conditions in Japan, page 5:

     Since then, however, except for the short-lived recovery mainly in distributors' demand in 1976 owing to the socalled "overstore effect" ( a large-scale floor space expansions in department stores and supermarkets), the demand has generally remained sluggish, in spite of the demand increasing factor of a rise in the synthetic fiber ratio from 46.5% in 1972 to 55.6 in 1977.

3. (computing) The overwriting of memory or data, especially when done in error.
   • 1970, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Hydrodynamics Laboratory, Technical Report - Issue 133, page 395:

     If the overstore involves non-reducible data, i.e. data which cannot be effectively stored by interpolation at larger intervals from the original data, then the run will abort.

   • 1975, Edward A. Torrero, Microprocessors, page 49:

     […] a loop data destroyed by overstore

   • 1980, Proceedings of ... Annual ACM-SIGUCC User Services Conference, page 49:

     Floating point error ( or a calculation that goes to zero ) Overstore, jump out of bounds, or illegal instruction.

Adjective

overstore (not comparable)

1. Located above a store.
   • 1939 ·, James Boyle, Official Brooklyn Guide Book, page 10:

     […] ; 72,364 ( 29.5 % ) are two-family homes; the remainder, 93,644, are multifamily and apartment-overstore dwellings.

   • 1988, Tom Wolfe, Mauve Gloves and Madmen, Clutter and Vine:

     […] if there is any justice up in heaven, Dr. Freud has been assigned a corner apartment with one of those little concrete balconies or "terraces," of the Collins Avenue condominium-tower variety, rigged out with a telescope and an infrared X-ray attachment that enables him to look down through every roof and every ceiling in the United States...day or night, into overstore massage parlors on lower State Street as easily as the flimsiest cinder-block motel room, even into the utter darkness of the Lido East movie theater […]