stock
see also: Stock
Pronunciation Etymology 1
Stock
Etymology
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see also: Stock
Pronunciation Etymology 1
From Middle English stok, from Old English stocc, from Proto-West Germanic *stokk, from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz, with modern senses 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.
Nounstock
- A store or supply.
- (operations) A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.
- We have a stock of televisions on hand.
- A supply of anything ready for use.
- Lay in a stock of wood for the winter season.
- Railroad rolling stock.
- (cards, 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.
- (operations) A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.
- (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.
- When the bad news came out, the company's stock dropped precipitously.
(especially, US) A share in a company. - (figurative) The measure of how highly a person or institution is valued.
- Synonyms: reputation
- After that last screw-up of mine, my stock is pretty low around here.
- Any of several types of security that are similar to a stock, or marketed like one.
- The price or value of the stock of a company on the stock market.
- The raw material from which things are made; feedstock.
- 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.
- c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC ↗; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene i ↗:
- UUhat, ſhall I call thee brother? No, a foe,
Monſter of Nature, ſhame vnto thy ſtocke,
That darſt preſume thy Soueraigne for to mocke.
- 2010, Lewis Richard Farnell, The Cults of the Greek States, page 108:
- We may also conclude that as it was the Ionic γένη of the Attic tetrapolis who in the main achieved the Ionization of Athens, so it was a branch of this same stock that settled at Delos […]
- (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.
- (firearm) 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.
- A bar, stick or rod.
- A ski pole.
- (nautical) A bar going through an anchor, perpendicular to the flukes.
- 1904–1906, Joseph Conrad, chapter IV, in The Mirror of the Sea, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers, published October 1906, →OCLC ↗:
- The honest, rough piece of iron, so simple in appearance, has more parts than the human body has limbs: the ring, the stock, the crown, the flukes, the palms, the shank. All this, according to the journalist, is “cast” when a ship arriving at an anchorage is brought up.
- (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.
- 1655, Thomas Fuller, The History of Waltham Abbey:
- 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.
(by extension, obsolete) A person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense. - c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act I, scene i]:
- Let's be no stoics, nor no stocks.
- (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.
- (farm or ranch animals) livestock
- (railroad equipment) rolling stock
- (raw material) feedstock
- (paper for printing) card stock
- (plant used in grafting) rootstock, understock
- (axle attached to rudder) rudder stock
- (wide necktie) stock-tie
- French: stock
- German: Vorrat
- Italian: partita, giacenza, lotto, quantitativo, approvvigionamento
- Portuguese: estoque
- Russian: инвента́рь
- Spanish: stock, existencias, inventario, estocaje (Spain)
- French: réserve
- German: Vorrat, Fundus
- Italian: stock, partita, riserva
- Portuguese: reserva
- Russian: инвента́рь
- Spanish: reserva
- French: matthiole, violier, giroflée des jardins, giroflée quarantaine
- German: Levkoje
- Italian: violacciocca
- Russian: левко́й
- Spanish: alelí
- Russian: ста́пель
- French: souche
stock (stocks, present participle stocking; simple past and past participle stocked)
- To have on hand for sale.
- The store stocks all kinds of dried vegetables.
- 2005, William Froug, How I Escaped from Gilligan's Island:
- ...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 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.
- c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- 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
- (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.
stock (not comparable)
- Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.
- stock items
- stock sizes
- (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.
- He gave me a stock answer.
- German: vorrätig, verfügbar
- Spanish: disponible, en almacén
From Italian stoccata.
Nounstock (plural stocks)
Stock
Etymology
- (Stockton) Clipping of Stockton.
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