The difference between Store and Supply
When used as nouns, store means a place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept, whereas supply means the act of supplying.
When used as verbs, store means to keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose, whereas supply means to provide (something), to make (something) available for use.
Supply is also adverb with the meaning: supplely: in a supple manner, with suppleness.
check bellow for the other definitions of Store and Supply
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Store as a noun:
A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.
Examples:
"This building used to be a store for old tires."
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Store as a noun:
A supply held in storage.
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Store as a noun (mainly North American):
A place where items may be purchased; a shop.
Examples:
"I need to get some milk from the grocery store."
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Store as a noun (computing, dated):
Memory.
Examples:
"The main store of 1000 36-bit words seemed large at the time."
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Store as a noun:
A great quantity or number; abundance.
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Store as a verb (transitive):
To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose.
Examples:
"I'll store these books in the attic."
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Store as a verb (transitive, computing):
To write (something) into memory or registers.
Examples:
"This operation stores the result on the stack."
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Store as a verb (intransitive):
To remain in good condition while stored.
Examples:
"I don't think that kind of cheese will store well in the refrigerator."
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Supply as a verb (transitive):
To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.
Examples:
"to supply money for the war"
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Supply as a verb (transitive):
To furnish or equip with.
Examples:
"to supply a furnace with fuel; to supply soldiers with ammunition"
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Supply as a verb (transitive):
To fill up, or keep full.
Examples:
"Rivers are supplied by smaller streams."
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Supply as a verb (transitive):
To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of.
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Supply as a verb (transitive):
To serve instead of; to take the place of.
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Supply as a verb (intransitive):
To act as a substitute.
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Supply as a verb (transitive):
To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office; to occupy; to have possession of.
Examples:
"to supply a pulpit"
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Supply as a noun (uncountable):
The act of supplying.
Examples:
"supply and demand"
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Supply as a noun (countable):
An amount of something supplied.
Examples:
"A supply of good drinking water is essential."
"She said, “China has always had a freshwater supply problem with 20 percent of the world’s population but only 7 percent of its freshwater.'' [[File:She said, “China has always had a freshwater supply problem.ogg]]"
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Supply as a noun (in the plural):
provisions.
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Supply as a noun (mostly, in the plural):
An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures.
Examples:
"to vote supplies"
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Supply as a noun:
Somebody, such as a teacher or clergyman, who temporarily fills the place of another; a substitute.
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Supply as an adverb:
Supplely: in a supple manner, with suppleness.