stock
IPA: stˈɑk
noun
- A store or supply.
- (operations) A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.
- A supply of anything ready for use.
- Railroad rolling stock.
- (card games, in a card game) A stack of undealt cards made available to the players.
- Farm or ranch animals; livestock.
- The population of a given type of animal (especially fish) available to be captured from the wild for economic use.
- (finance) The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares. The total of shares held by an individual shareholder.
- The price or value of the stock of a company on the stock market.
- (especially US) A share in a company.
- (figurative) The measure of how highly a person or institution is valued.
- Any of several types of security that are similar to a stock, or marketed like one.
- The raw material from which things are made; feedstock.
- (cooking, uncountable, countable) Broth made from meat (originally bones) or vegetables, used as a basis for stew or soup.
- The type of paper used in printing.
- Plain soap before it is coloured and perfumed.
- Stock theater, summer stock theater.
- The trunk and woody main stems of a tree. The base from which something grows or branches.
- (horticulture) The plant upon which the scion is grafted.
- (by extension) Lineage, family, ancestry.
- (linguistics) A larger grouping of language families: a superfamily or macrofamily.
- 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.
- (firearms) The part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shooter's shoulder.
- The handle of a whip, fishing rod, etc.
- Part of a machine that supports items or holds them in place.
- The headstock of a lathe, drill, etc.
- The tailstock of a lathe.
- A bar, stick or rod.
- A ski pole.
- (nautical) A bar going through an anchor, perpendicular to the flukes.
- (nautical) The axle attached to the rudder, which transfers the movement of the helm to the rudder.
- (geology) A pipe (vertical cylinder of ore)
- A type of (now formal or official) neckwear.
- A necktie or cravat, particularly a wide necktie popular in the eighteenth century, often seen today as a part of formal wear for horse riding competitions.
- A piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar.
- A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle
- (folklore) A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical beings.
- (obsolete) A cover for the legs; a stocking.
- A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
- (by extension, obsolete) A person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense.
- (UK, historical) 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.
- (shipbuilding, in the plural) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.
- (UK, in the plural) Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
- (biology) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
- The beater of a fulling mill.
- A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.
- A village and civil parish in Chelmsford district, Essex, England, United Kingdom (OS grid ref TQ6998).
- A surname.
- Ellipsis of film stock. [A strip or sheet of transparent plastic film base coated on one side with a gelatin emulsion containing light-sensitive silver halide crystals, used for recording motion pictures.]
verb
- To have on hand for sale.
- To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.
- To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.
- To put in the stocks as punishment.
- (nautical) To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.
- (card games, dated) To arrange cards in a certain manner for cheating purposes; to stack the deck.
adjective
- Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.
- (motor racing, of a race car) 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.
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Examples of "stock" in Sentences
- In some cases tree size is determined by the stock and dwarfing stock is used to produce small, compact trees.
- The draft shares other characteristics with the stock market including the boring nature of the event and the uncertainty of each "stock�? purchased.
- Just like in stock trading we can set a price at below which the stock is sold automatically saving us from further losses; we can set a time period, say 15 minutes for which we are willin 'to wait.
- I think whether one prefers to be paid by it in stock or cash may much more reflect the risk/reward preferences and cash needs of the parties, than any rational caluclation about what the stock is actually worth.
- The American _stock_ actors, as they term those who are not considered as _stars_, are better than our own; but were the theatres to depend upon stock actors they would be deserted -- the love of novelty is the chief inducement of the
- Mr. Bates 'rule was, "breed in-and-in from a bad stock and you cause ruin and devastation, they must always be changing to keep even moderately in caste; but _if a good stock_ be selected, you may breed in-and-in as much as you please." [
- As the stock market extended its dramatic rebound from the 2007-09 bear market, the $169 million Aegis Value fund, managed by Scott Barbee, was No. 1 among actively managed funds in our quarterly contest, which ranks the 12-month returns of diversified U. S.-stock funds.
- A _bond_ is evidence of debt, specifying the interest, and stating when the principal shall be paid; a _certificate of stock_ is evidence that the owner is a part-owner in the corporation or company, not a creditor, and he has no right to regain his money except by the sale of his stock, or through the winding up of the company's business.
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