stock
nounEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- Proto-Germanic *stikanąder. Proto-Germanic *stukkaz Proto-West Germanic *stokk Old English stocc Middle English stok English stock From Middle English stok, from Old English stocc, from Proto-West Germanic *stokk, from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz (“tree-trunk”). Modern senses are mostly referring either to the trunk from which the tree grows (figuratively, its origin and/or support/foundation), or to a piece of wood, stick, or rod. The senses of "supply" and "raw material" arose from a probable conflation with steck (“an item of goods, merchandise”) or the use of split tally sticks consisting of foil or counterfoil and stock to capture paid taxes, debts or exchanges. Doublet of chock.
Definitions
A store or supply.
The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares
The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares; the total of shares held by an individual shareholder.
- His grandpa had bought some stock in General Electric in 1905, and he refused to sell it ever after.
The raw material from which things are made, such as feedstock.
- They make beef stock from the butchery scraps that they otherwise might not have used.
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Stock theater, summer stock theater.
The trunk and woody main stems or limbs of a tree
The trunk and woody main stems or limbs of a tree; the base from which something grows or branches.
- Though the roote thereof waxe old in the earth, and the stocke thereof die in the ground: Yet through the sent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughes like a plant.
Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.
A handle or stem to which the working part of an implement or weapon is attached.
- The most underrated component in building a custom gun is the metalsmithing. Stock work immediately attracts attention. Fancy checkering patterns, meticulously executed, are sure to elicit oohs and ahhs.
Part of a machine that supports items or holds them in place.
A bar, stick, or rod.
A type of (now formal or official) neckwear.
- He wore a brown tweed suit and a white stock. His clothes hung loosely about him as though they had been made for a much larger man. He looked like a respectable farmer of the middle of the nineteenth century.
- His grey waistcoat sported pearl buttons, and he wore a stock which set off to admiration a lean and aquiline face which was almost as grey as the rest of him.
A bed for infants
A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle
A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by…
A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical beings.
A cover for the legs
A cover for the legs; a stocking.
A block of wood
A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
- When all our Fathers worſhip't Stocks and Stones,
- Item, for a stock of brass for the holy water, seven shillings; which, by the canon, must be of marble or metal, and in no case of brick.
A person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post
A person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense.
- Let's be no stoics, nor no stocks.
The longest part of a split tally stick formerly struck in the exchequer, which was…
The longest part of a split tally stick formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness.
The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.
Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
The beater of a fulling mill.
- […]a somewhat rude machine called the stocks, and consisting of a pair of wooden mallets, worked alternately by a cog wheel.
To have on hand for sale.
- The store stocks all kinds of dried vegetables.
- ...he would not stock any product on his shelves from any company that hired a communist or, as it was called at the time, a comsymp.
To provide with material requisites
To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.
- to stock a warehouse with goods
- to stock a farm, i.e. to supply it with cattle and tools
- to stock land, i.e. to occupy it with a permanent growth, especially of grass
To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.
To put in the stocks as punishment.
- Poor Tom, that[…]eats cow-dung for sallets; swallows the old rat, and the ditch-dog; drinks the green mantle of the standing pool; who is whipp'd from tything to tything, and stock'd, punish'd, and imprison'd
To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.
To arrange cards in a certain manner for cheating purposes
To arrange cards in a certain manner for cheating purposes; to stack the deck.
Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.
- stock items
- stock sizes
Having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having been…
Having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having been modified from such a car.
Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic.
- He gave me a stock answer.
A thrust with a rapier
A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.
A village and civil parish in Chelmsford district, Essex, England, United Kingdom (OS…
A village and civil parish in Chelmsford district, Essex, England, United Kingdom (OS grid ref TQ6998).
A surname.
- Speaking on the John Solomon Reports podcast this week, conservative activist and RiftTV contributor Sarah Stock attributed some of the divide to a generational split in how conservatives consume information.
Diminutive of Stockton (“personal name”).
The neighborhood
- synonymfeedstockraw material
- synonymrootstockplant used in grafting
- synonymunderstockplant used in grafting
- neighborbuffer stock
- neighborcapital stock
- neighborcertificated stock
- neighborcoaching stock
- neighborcommon stock
- neighborcorporate stock
- neighbordeferred stock
- neighborempty stock working
- neighborevening stock
- neighborfish stock
- neighborgrowth stock
- neighborhoary stock
Derived
antistock, backstock, ballstock, bar stock, barstock, basestock, bedstock, bitstock, blendstock, bloodstock, broodstock, bump stock, bump-stock, bun stock, buttstock, counterstock, cover stock, cryostock, cult stock, dead-stock, dead stock, debenture stock, destock, diestock, drillstock, empty coaching stock, ex-stock, ex stock, fancy stock, farmstock, fatstock, fishstock, forestock, gazingstock, green stock, green stocks, gunstock, gun stock, hepping-stock, hoofstock · +174 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at stock. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at stock. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at stock
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA