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shop

ʃɑp
WordNet
The setting shop of the Deli Courant, employees sitting behind work tables. Part of a group of 49 loose black and white photographs of various sizes about the publishing and printing business of the newspaper Deli Courant in Medan in the period 1885-1947.
The setting shop of the Deli Courant, employees sitting behind work tables. Part of a group of 49 loose black and white photographs of various sizes about the publishing and printing business of the newspaper Deli Courant in Medan in the period 1885-1947.
  1. (v) shop
    give away information about somebody "He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam"
  2. (v) shop
    do one's shopping "She goes shopping every Friday"
  3. (v) shop
    shop around; not necessarily buying "I don't need help, I'm just browsing"
  4. (v) shop
    do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of
  5. (n) shop
    a course of instruction in a trade (as carpentry or electricity) "I built a birdhouse in shop"
  6. (n) shop
    a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services "he bought it at a shop on Cape Cod"
  7. (n) shop
    small workplace where handcrafts or manufacturing are done
Illustrations
Interior of a haberdashery shop for women's and men's clothing in Paris, c. 1678, with fashionably dressed couple. in: album with 136 (ornamental) prints, untitled, published by Jacques Thuret, Paris, ca. 1711. (first edition in Mercure Galant, Extraordinaire. Quartier de janvier 1678, to pp. 522-523) In the description on pp. 524-540, the numbered accessories are named and explained.
Interior of a haberdashery shop for women's and men's clothing in Paris, c. 1678, with fashionably dressed couple. in: album with 136 (ornamental) prints, untitled, published by Jacques Thuret, Paris, ca. 1711. (first edition in Mercure Galant, Extraordinaire. Quartier de janvier 1678, to pp. 522-523) In the description on pp. 524-540, the numbered accessories are named and explained.
The surgeon and barber shop. Interior of a shop where monkeys are cut and shaved. Medical procedures such as bloodletting and tooth extraction also take place.
The surgeon and barber shop. Interior of a shop where monkeys are cut and shaved. Medical procedures such as bloodletting and tooth extraction also take place.
Bell-shaped porcelain cup, painted on the glaze in blue, red, pink, green, yellow, black and gold. On the outside two oval medallions with in each a depiction of two Europeans in a Chinese shop, between the medallions tendrils with two small cartouches two people or a person looking at three ships; the inner rim with a band of flower tendrils interspersed with four small medallions depicting a person in a landscape; a twig at the bottom. European representation in enamel colors.
Bell-shaped head depicting Europeans in a Chinese shop
Barber shop with monkeys, a cat being shaved and a boy who opens the door for a patient to be brought in.
Barber shop with monkeys, a cat being shaved and a boy who opens the door for a patient to be brought in.
Travelers with their horses are standing at a blacksmith shop. A man gives a horse a basket of straw and looks up at a child on the horse's back and the woman next to it. In the smithy a horse is provided with new hooves. In the background a rolling landscape with a covered wagon and horse and carriage.
Travelers with their horses are standing at a blacksmith shop. A man gives a horse a basket of straw and looks up at a child on the horse's back and the woman next to it. In the smithy a horse is provided with new hooves. In the background a rolling landscape with a covered wagon and horse and carriage.
The farmer in the large barber shop. In a hairdresser's shop, a Teunis de boer is cut by mr. Barent Luyseknipper. There are several people with scissors present in the shop who would also like to cut and shave the farmer. In the caption the names of the characters in the show are marked AK with a two-line verse with each name. Cartoon of the fate of the farmer who is always the victim, in times of war but also of peace.
The farmer in the large barber shop. In a hairdresser's shop, a Teunis de boer is cut by mr. Barent Luyseknipper. There are several people with scissors present in the shop who would also like to cut and shave the farmer. In the caption the names of the characters in the show are marked AK with a two-line verse with each name. Cartoon of the fate of the farmer who is always the victim, in times of war but also of peace.
A quiet shopping street in Innsbruck with snowy mountain peaks in the background.
A quiet shopping street in Innsbruck with snowy mountain peaks in the background.
Display of earthenware figures in front of a shop in Kyoto
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Interesting fact
The city of Nottingham in England was the first city to have Braille signs (signs for the blind) in its shopping malls for the blind
  1. Shop
    A person's occupation, business, profession, or the like, as a subject of attention, interest, conversation, etc.; -- sometimes in deprecation or disapproval; as, to talk shop at a party. Also used attributively, as in shop talk.
  2. Shop
    Any place of resort, as one's house, a restaurant, etc.
  3. Shop
    To visit shops for the purpose of purchasing goods. "He was engaged with his mother and some ladies to go shopping ."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Interesting fact
Montreal has an underground city, which has over 2,000 shops and 26 kilometres of walkways. This is the largest underground network for any city
  1. (n) shop
    A booth or stall where wares were usually both made and displayed for sale.
  2. (n) shop
    A building, or a room or suite of rooms, appropriated to the selling of wares at retail.
  3. (n) shop
    [In the rural districts and smaller towns of the United States the term store takes almost exclusively the place of the British shop, but the latter word is in occasional and increasing use in this sense in large cities.
  4. (n) shop
    A room or building in which the making, preparing, or repairing of any article is carried on, or in which any industry is pursued: as, a machine-shop; a repair-shop; a barber's shop; a carpenter's shop.
  5. (n) shop
    Hence, figuratively The place where anything is made; the producing place or source.
  6. (n) shop
    In glass-making, a team or set of workmen. See the quotation.
  7. (n) shop
    One's own business, craft, calling, or profession; also, talk specifically relating to this: used in a ludicrous or contemptuous sense. Compare to talk shop, below.
  8. shop
    To visit shops or stores for the purpose of purchasing or examining goods.
  9. shop
    To shut up; put behind bars; imprison.
  10. shop
    An obsolete preterit of shape.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
Interesting fact
In Japan, coffee shops are called Kissaten.
  1. (n) Shop
    shop a building in which goods are sold by retail: a place where mechanics work, or where any kind of industry is pursued: one's own business or profession, also talk about such
  2. (v.i) Shop
    to visit shops for the purpose of buying
  3. (v.t) Shop
    (slang) to imprison:—pr.p. shop′ping; pa.p. shopped
Quotations
Richard M. Nixon
If you think the United States has stood still, who built The largest shopping center in the world?
Richard M. Nixon
Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television.
Joan Rivers
Don't open a shop unless you like to smile.
Chinese Proverb
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
When you see a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend on it, that he keeps a very small stock of it within.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Oscar Wilde
The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-?-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.
Oscar Wilde
Idioms

All over the shop - If something is completely disorganised or confused, it is all over the shop.

Bull in a China shop - If someone behaves like a bull in a China shop, they are clumsy when they should be careful.

Shop floor - 'Shop floor' refers to the part of an organisation where the work is actually performed rather than just managed.

Talk shop - If you talk shop, you talk about work matters, especially if you do this outside work.

Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary OE. shoppe, schoppe, AS. sceoppa, a treasury, a storehouse, stall, booth; akin to scypen, a shed, LG. schup, a shed, G. schoppen, schuppen, a shed, a coachhouse, OHG. scopf,

Usage in the news

Westland's shopping and dining district is anchored by Westland Shopping Center and is surrounded by more than 160 shops, restaurants and services making it Wayne County's premier shopping and dining destination. hometownlife.com

As the holidays approach, that means shopping, and increasingly, online shopping. varbusiness.com

Fashion and shopping blogger Emma Iannarilli discusses one of the only shopping trips in the year that she dreads - the hunt to find the perfect Father's Day gift. sportsradio1420.com

The finishes are sold to shop owners through "DuPont Economic Line Product Standard Shops," which also are referred to as "eco-shops. coatingsworld.com

This was the third year that the Trumbull County Sheriff's deputies took the children shopping as part of Shop With a Cop. kbn.com

Larry was the owner of Dad's Toy Shop, a Toyota and Lexus repair shop in Denton for 10 years. dentonrc.com

After learning metal fab skills at various shops and respected fabricators like Steve Davis, Eddie opened his own shop in 1996. hotrod.com

Shopping for the perfect gift can be a challenge and the hardest person to shop for. team4news.com

Surf forecast site launches online store surf, online, shop, solspot, local, shops, store, percent, sales, idea. ocregister.com

There are only 31 shopping days to fill your shopping bags and carts with presents. orangeleader.com

Fort Wayne Children's Zoo's Wild Things Gift Shop open Dec 15 for holiday shopping. news-sentinel.com

Event Network, which manages gift shop s at several historical sites nationally, has taken over the Alamo gift shop starting Monday. mysanantonio.com

Three tattoo shops turned McDonald away, she said, but she ultimately ended up working with tattoo artist Pete Gillespie, who owns a tattoo shop in the town of Dalkeith. q101.com

US President Barack Obama and his daughter Sasha shop at One More Page Books on Small Business Saturday, which promotes shopping at local small businesses, in the Falls Church neighborhood of Arlington, Virginia, on November 24, 2012. vancouversun.com

When she bought the shop in 2001, it was located in a 2,500-square-foot space in the Cotton Patch Café Shopping Center. tylerpaper.com

Usage in scientific papers

From shopping cart customer can review detailed information from the cart for any item.
A UI Design Case Study and a Prototype of a Travel Search Engine

However, current systems do not allow the application of both of these thresholds simultaneously, selecting products and shops satisfying both thresholds.
Diamond Dicing

Maio, Effects of Radiation Damage on Scintil lating Fiber Calorimetry, in Large Hadron Collider Work-shop, vol.
A 1 mm Scintillating Fibre Tracker Readout by a Multi-anode Photomultiplier

In fact, the present overview can be regarded as a shopping list of the present challenges in this field.
Quantum Interferometry with Electrons: Outstanding Challenges

It would be very helpful to form a “shopping list” of measurements we want LHCb to make in the charm sector.
The future of charm physics: a discussion

Usage in literature

His soul was never so staked down as in an old bookseller's shop. "The Book-Hunter in London" by William Roberts

It may always be noted in the barber shops. "Pipefuls" by Christopher Morley

But I don't stay caged in my shop all day: I've got a wife and a raven to stay at home and mind the stock. "Romola" by George Eliot

One of the shops is also the post office. "Lady Bountiful" by George A. Birmingham

Before I had been many months in the shop, Mr Brookes was able to leave when any exigence required his immediate attendance. "Japhet in Search of a Father" by Frederick Marryat

Within the shop was dark and had a musty odor. "The Opal Serpent" by Fergus Hume

In some embarrassment, the Bunch rolled up their bubb and lugged it into the shop. "The Planet Strappers" by Raymond Zinke Gallun

Miss Mapp set off with her basket to do her shopping. "Miss Mapp" by Edward Frederic Benson

This is especially true of the shop-windows on Fifth Avenue, New York. "Penguin Persons & Peppermints" by Walter Prichard Eaton

Max was at the time working at a huge turret lathe in one of the turning-shops. "Two Daring Young Patriots" by W. P. Shervill

Usage in poetry
When he came to my shop each day,
So peaked and cold,
I'd sneak one of his books away
And say 'twas sold.
"Poor Poet" by Robert W Service Author object (576)
Their way's no longer my way,
For I must follow now
The drum-tap and the bugle,
While they're for shop and plough.
"The New Recruit" by Katharine Tynan Author object (417)
He left the shop, and in the street
He sat him down to cry,
He heard the trampling of the feet
Of those who passed him by.
"Who Cares?" by John Hartley
The war god calls, whate'er befalls
His orders must be filled,
Though work may stop in mine and shop,
And farms may lie untilled.
"The Orgy Of Thor" by Abner Cosens
Now underneath the shop it's true
Where other bodies tumbled through
There lived a little widow who
Loved Sweeney Todd, the Barber.
"Sweeney Todd, The Barber" by Weston and Lee
And in his little shop, who knows
What bitter games of war are played?
Why, daily on each corner grows
A foe to rob him of his trade.
"Delicatessen" by Alfred Joyce Kilmer