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Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.
C. J. Cherryh

Meaning of "warehouse" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF WAREHOUSE

warehouse  [ˈwɛəˌhaʊs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WAREHOUSE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Warehouse is a verb and can also act as a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb warehouse in English.

WHAT DOES WAREHOUSE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

warehouse

Warehouse

A warehouse is a commercial building for storage of goods. Warehouses are used by manufacturers, importers, exporters, wholesalers, transport businesses, customs, etc. They are usually large plain buildings in industrial areas of cities and towns and villages. They usually have loading docks to load and unload goods from trucks. Sometimes warehouses are designed for the loading and unloading of goods directly from railways, airports, or seaports. They often have cranes and forklifts for moving goods, which are usually placed on ISO standard pallets loaded into pallet racks. Stored goods can include any raw materials, packing materials, spare parts, components, or finished goods associated with agriculture, manufacturing and production.

Definition of warehouse in the English dictionary

The first definition of warehouse in the dictionary is a place where goods are stored prior to their use, distribution, or sale. Other definition of warehouse is a large commercial, esp wholesale, establishment. Warehouse is also to store or place in a warehouse, esp a bonded warehouse.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO WAREHOUSE

PRESENT

Present
I warehouse
you warehouse
he/she/it warehouses
we warehouse
you warehouse
they warehouse
Present continuous
I am warehousing
you are warehousing
he/she/it is warehousing
we are warehousing
you are warehousing
they are warehousing
Present perfect
I have warehoused
you have warehoused
he/she/it has warehoused
we have warehoused
you have warehoused
they have warehoused
Present perfect continuous
I have been warehousing
you have been warehousing
he/she/it has been warehousing
we have been warehousing
you have been warehousing
they have been warehousing
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I warehoused
you warehoused
he/she/it warehoused
we warehoused
you warehoused
they warehoused
Past continuous
I was warehousing
you were warehousing
he/she/it was warehousing
we were warehousing
you were warehousing
they were warehousing
Past perfect
I had warehoused
you had warehoused
he/she/it had warehoused
we had warehoused
you had warehoused
they had warehoused
Past perfect continuous
I had been warehousing
you had been warehousing
he/she/it had been warehousing
we had been warehousing
you had been warehousing
they had been warehousing
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will warehouse
you will warehouse
he/she/it will warehouse
we will warehouse
you will warehouse
they will warehouse
Future continuous
I will be warehousing
you will be warehousing
he/she/it will be warehousing
we will be warehousing
you will be warehousing
they will be warehousing
Future perfect
I will have warehoused
you will have warehoused
he/she/it will have warehoused
we will have warehoused
you will have warehoused
they will have warehoused
Future perfect continuous
I will have been warehousing
you will have been warehousing
he/she/it will have been warehousing
we will have been warehousing
you will have been warehousing
they will have been warehousing
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would warehouse
you would warehouse
he/she/it would warehouse
we would warehouse
you would warehouse
they would warehouse
Conditional continuous
I would be warehousing
you would be warehousing
he/she/it would be warehousing
we would be warehousing
you would be warehousing
they would be warehousing
Conditional perfect
I would have warehouse
you would have warehouse
he/she/it would have warehouse
we would have warehouse
you would have warehouse
they would have warehouse
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been warehousing
you would have been warehousing
he/she/it would have been warehousing
we would have been warehousing
you would have been warehousing
they would have been warehousing
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you warehouse
we let´s warehouse
you warehouse
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to warehouse
Past participle
warehoused
Present Participle
warehousing
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH WAREHOUSE


Bauhaus
ˈbaʊˌhaʊs
chapterhouse
ˈtʃæptəˌhaʊs
Charterhouse
ˈtʃɑːtəˌhaʊs
clubhouse
ˈklʌbˌhaʊs
courthouse
ˈkɔːtˌhaʊs
farmhouse
ˈfɑːmˌhaʊs
greenhouse
ˈɡriːnˌhaʊs
guesthouse
ˈɡɛstˌhaʊs
lighthouse
ˈlaɪtˌhaʊs
motherhouse
ˈmʌðəˌhaʊs
penthouse
ˈpɛntˌhaʊs
playhouse
ˈpleɪˌhaʊs
poorhouse
ˈpʊəˌhaʊs
porterhouse
ˈpɔːtəˌhaʊs
powerhouse
ˈpaʊəˌhaʊs
slaughterhouse
ˈslɔːtəˌhaʊs
steakhouse
ˈsteɪkˌhaʊs
summerhouse
ˈsʌməˌhaʊs
Waterhouse
ˈwɔːtəˌhaʊs
Winehouse
waɪnˌhaʊs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WAREHOUSE

wardrobe assistant
wardrobe malfunction
wardrobe mistress
wardrobe trunk
wardrober
wardroom
wardship
ware
warehou
warehouse capacity
warehouse club
warehouseman
warehousemen
warehouser
warehousing
warehousing costs
wareless
wareroom
wares
warez

WORDS THAT END LIKE WAREHOUSE

auction house
beach house
coffee house
country house
detached house
engine house
firehouse
full house
house
house-to-house
in-house
lady of the house
mouse
Mulhouse
on the house
open house
opera house
steak house
terraced house
town house
treehouse

Synonyms and antonyms of warehouse in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «WAREHOUSE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «warehouse» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of warehouse

Translation of «warehouse» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WAREHOUSE

Find out the translation of warehouse to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of warehouse from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «warehouse» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

仓库
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

almacén
570 millions of speakers

English

warehouse
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

गोदाम
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مُسْتَوْدَع
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

склад
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

armazém
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

গুদাম
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

entrepôt
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Gudang
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Lagerhaus
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

倉庫
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

창고
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Warehouse
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

kho chứa đồ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கிடங்கில்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वेअरहाउस
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

depo
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

magazzino
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

magazyn
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

склад
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

depozit de mărfuri
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αποθήκη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

pakhuis
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

lagerlokal
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

lagerhus
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of warehouse

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WAREHOUSE»

The term «warehouse» is very widely used and occupies the 5.150 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WAREHOUSE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about warehouse

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10 QUOTES WITH «WAREHOUSE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word warehouse.
1
C. J. Cherryh
Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.
2
Kate DiCamillo
I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed.
3
Jennifer Ellison
Dad worked in a warehouse when I was little and I didn't see him for three years as he was doing all the overtime God gave him to buy me new ballet shoes, or a new tutu.
4
Grimes
My manager lives on my block; four of the apartments in my apartment complex of seven are people I know. It's a really close-knit community, and almost everyone on these few blocks are artists or graphic designers, because we live right on the cusp of a warehouse district.
5
Val Kilmer
Hollywood's like a warehouse. It's just a place that you go. What's interesting in the warehouse has to do with the creative people.
6
Patrick Leahy
Stealing is stealing. I don't care if it's on the Internet or you're breaking into a warehouse somewhere - it's theft.
7
Denis Leary
My cousin Jerry Lucey and five other firefighters died in a warehouse fire in Worcester, Mass. - my hometown - right in the middle of our old neighborhood downtown when a homeless couple started a fire to keep warm and the entire building went up. My cousin died trying to save homeless people who had already left the building.
8
Method Man
I have 15,000 comics in a warehouse, all bagged individually.
9
Eskinder Nega
I am jailed, with around 200 other inmates, in a wide hall that looks like a warehouse.
10
Dawn Olivieri
Genetic Denim gods, if you're listening, please don't rip, and if you have to, maybe you could have an elf from your warehouse send me another pair... I'm a size 28 and its called 'The Twig' in a dark grayish wash... I will wear them until I die, unless those rips beat me to it.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WAREHOUSE»

Discover the use of warehouse in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to warehouse and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Agile Data Warehouse Design: Collaborative Dimensional ...
This book describes BEAM, an agile approach to dimensional modeling, for improving communication between data warehouse designers, BI stakeholders and the whole DW/BI development team.
Lawrence Corr, Jim Stagnitto, 2011
2
The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Complete Guide to ...
This book is also available as part of the Kimball's Data Warehouse Toolkit Classics Box Set (ISBN: 9780470479575) with the following 3 books: The Data Warehouse Toolkit, 2nd Edition (9780471200246) The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit, 2nd ...
Ralph Kimball, Margy Ross, 2011
3
Oracle Warehouse Builder 11g: Getting Started
Extract, Transform, and Load data to build a dynamic, operational data warehouse.
Bob Griesemer, 2009
4
Advanced Data Warehouse Design: From Conventional to Spatial ...
For researchers this book serves as an introduction to the state of the art on data warehouse design, with many references to more detailed sources.
Elzbieta Malinowski, Esteban Zimányi, 2008
5
Warehouse Management: Automation and Organisation of ...
This book gives an overview of possible solutions which help readers to make the right choice. It presents the background and potential, but also the risks and strategies to handle them.
Michael ten Hompel, Thorsten Schmidt, 2006
6
Reinventing the Warehouse: World Class Distribution Logistics
Describes an approach to warehousing designed to maximize the use of manpower, facilities, and equipment, and looks at new techniques developed by fifty companies around the world
Roy L. Harmon, 1993
7
Integral Warehouse Management: The Next Generation in ...
Integral Warehouse Management is a new methodology for optimizing distribution centers. It creates transparency, increases the intelligence of WMS's and enhances collaboration in the supply chain.
Jeroen P. Van Den Berg, 2007
8
Managing Time and Space in the Modern Warehouse: With ...
It will help them increase their efficiency, cut costs, and enhance their careers. This book will show you how to achieve accurate and efficient operations in your warehouse.
Ernst F. Bolten, 1997
9
The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit
With substantial new and updated content, this second edition of The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit again sets the standard in data warehousing for the next decade.
Ralph Kimball, Margy Ross, Warren Thornthwaite, 2011
10
Implementing a Data Warehouse: A Methodology that Worked
Illegal aliens and the staggering problems associated with every aspect of not controlling the illegal alien problem and the American borders.
Bruce Russell Ullrey, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WAREHOUSE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term warehouse is used in the context of the following news items.
1
WATCH: Astonishing drone footage of fire-ravaged North Brunswick …
The Livingston Avenue warehouse, which caught fire around 2 a.m. on July 22, created great plumes of smoke that could even be seen from space. «NJ.com, Jul 15»
2
Smoke From New Jersey Warehouse Fire Visible From Space
A large warehouse fire fueled by plastics, autos and household goods sent plumes of black smoke into the air Wednesday that were visible from space. The fire ... «ABC News, Jul 15»
3
Fowling Warehouse celebrates success, hopes to expand
Chris Hutt owns the Fowling Warehouse, a 34,000-square-foot repurposed industrial site in Hamtramck that's devoted to a football/bowling hybrid sport ... «Detroit Free Press, Jul 15»
4
Hallmark To Close Enfield Warehouse, Eliminate 570 Jobs
ENFIELD — Hallmark will close its 1-million-square-foot Enfield distribution center and eliminate 570 jobs over the next year, ending 63 years of operation in the ... «Hartford Courant, Jul 15»
5
Donmar Warehouse Season Will Include Les Liaisons Dangereuses …
The new season at London's Donmar Warehouse is to feature Abi Morgan's Splendour in its first major London run, the U.K. premiere of Christopher Shinn's ... «Playbill.com, Jun 15»
6
Columbus: Fire official says smoke from warehouse fire likely toxic
COLUMBUS -- Ohio residents near a large commercial warehouse in Columbus that caught fire and sent thick black smoke billowing into the air have been ... «WKYC-TV, May 15»
7
London warehouse destroyed by blaze in Erith
A storage warehouse in south-east London has been destroyed in a large fire overnight. Up to 100 firefighters tackled the blaze at industrial units off Yarnton ... «BBC News, Feb 15»
8
Fire at a Brooklyn Warehouse Puts Private Lives on Display
But the flames put plenty of lives on display as the crumpling warehouse belched up its contents: decades' worth of charred medical records, court transcripts, ... «New York Times, Feb 15»
9
Two presumed dead after plane crashes into Lakeland warehouse
A longtime flight instructor and his student were killed Thursday morning when their small plane plummeted into a chemical warehouse in Lakeland, sparking a ... «FOX 13 Tampa Bay, WTVT-TV, Jan 15»
10
Supreme Court Rules Against Worker Pay for Screenings in Amazon …
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled unanimously that a temp agency was not required to pay workers at Amazon warehouses for the time ... «New York Times, Dec 14»

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