Meaning of 'stock' (Webster Dictionary)
- Used or employed for constant service or application, as if
constituting a portion of a stock or supply; standard; permanent;
standing; as, a stock actor; a stock play; a stock sermon.
- The stem, or main body, of a tree or plant; the fixed,
strong, firm part; the trunk.
- The stem or branch in which a graft is inserted.
- A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm
support; a post.
- Hence, a person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or
post; one who has little sense.
- The principal supporting part; the part in which others are
inserted, or to which they are attached.
- The wood to which the barrel, lock, etc., of a musket or
like firearm are secured; also, a long, rectangular piece of wood,
which is an important part of several forms of gun carriage.
- The handle or contrivance by which bits are held in boring;
a bitstock; a brace.
- The block of wood or metal frame which constitutes the body
of a plane, and in which the plane iron is fitted; a plane stock.
- The wooden or iron crosspiece to which the shank of an
anchor is attached. See Illust. of Anchor.
- The support of the block in which an anvil is fixed, or of
the anvil itself.
- A handle or wrench forming a holder for the dies for cutting
screws; a diestock.
- The part of a tally formerly struck in the exchequer, which
was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as
the evidence of indebtedness. See Counterfoil.
- The original progenitor; also, the race or line of a family;
the progenitor of a family and his direct descendants; lineage; family.
- Money or capital which an individual or a firm employs in
business; fund; in the United States, the capital of a bank or other
company, in the form of transferable shares, each of a certain amount;
money funded in government securities, called also the public funds; in
the plural, property consisting of shares in joint-stock companies, or
in the obligations of a government for its funded debt; -- so in the
United States, but in England the latter only are called stocks, and
the former shares.
- Same as Stock account, below.
- Supply provided; store; accumulation; especially, a
merchant's or manufacturer's store of goods; as, to lay in a stock of
provisions.
- Domestic animals or beasts collectively, used or raised on a
farm; as, a stock of cattle or of sheep, etc.; -- called also live
stock.
- That portion of a pack of cards not distributed to the
players at the beginning of certain games, as gleek, etc., but which
might be drawn from afterward as occasion required; a bank.
- A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.
- A covering for the leg, or leg and foot; as, upper stocks
(breeches); nether stocks (stockings).
- A kind of stiff, wide band or cravat for the neck; as, a
silk stock.
- A frame of timber, with holes in which the feet, or the feet
and hands, of criminals were formerly confined by way of punishment.
- The frame or timbers on which a ship rests while building.
- Red and gray bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the
front of buildings.
- Any cruciferous plant of the genus Matthiola; as, common
stock (Matthiola incana) (see Gilly-flower); ten-weeks stock (M.
annua).
- An irregular metalliferous mass filling a large cavity in a
rock formation, as a stock of lead ore deposited in limestone.
- A race or variety in a species.
- In tectology, an aggregate or colony of persons (see
Person), as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
- The beater of a fulling mill.
- A liquid or jelly containing the juices and soluble parts of
meat, and certain vegetables, etc., extracted by cooking; -- used in
making soup, gravy, etc.
- To lay up; to put aside for future use; to store, as
merchandise, and the like.
- To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill;
to supply; as, to stock a warehouse, that is, to fill it with goods; to
stock a farm, that is, to supply it with cattle and tools; to stock
land, that is, to occupy it with a permanent growth, especially of
grass.
- To suffer to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more
previous to sale, as cows.
- To put in the stocks.
Meaning of 'stock' (Princeton's WordNet)
Meaning (1):
- a supply of something available for future use
Example in sentence:- he brought back a large store of Cuban cigars
Meaning (2):
- a special variety of domesticated animals within a species
Example in sentence:- he created a new strain of sheep;
- he experimented on a particular breed of white rats
Meaning (3):
- the handle end of some implements or tools
Example in sentence:- he grabbed the cue by the stock
Meaning (4):
- the capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares entitling holders to an ownership interest (equity)
Example in sentence:- he owns a controlling share of the company's stock
Meaning (5):
- the descendants of one individual
Example in sentence:- his entire lineage has been warriors
Meaning (6):
- the reputation and popularity a person has
Example in sentence:- his stock was so high he could have been elected mayor
Meaning (7):
- liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered; used as a basis for e.g. soups or sauces
Example in sentence:- she made gravy with a base of beef stock
Meaning (8):
- the handle of a handgun or the butt end of a rifle or shotgun or part of the support of a machine gun or artillery gun
Example in sentence:- the rifle had been fitted with a special stock
Meaning (9):
- a certificate documenting the shareholder's ownership in the corporation
Example in sentence:- the value of his stocks doubled during the past year
Meaning (10):
- the merchandise that a shop has on hand
Example in sentence:- they carried a vast inventory of hardware;
- they stopped selling in exact sizes in order to reduce inventory
Meaning (11):
- lumber used in the construction of something
Example in sentence:- they will cut round stock to 1-inch diameter
Meaning (12):
- have on hand
Example in sentence:- Do you carry kerosene heaters?
Meaning (13):
- amass so as to keep for future use or sale or for a particular occasion or use
Example in sentence:- let's stock coffee as long as prices are low
Meaning (14):
- supply with livestock
Meaning (15):
- supply with fish
Meaning (16):
- equip with a stock
Meaning (17):
- provide or furnish with a stock of something
Example in sentence:- stock the larder with meat
Meaning (18):
- put forth and grow sprouts or shoots
Example in sentence:- the plant sprouted early this year
Meaning (19):
- regularly and widely used or sold
Example in sentence:- a standard size;
- a stock item
Meaning (20):
- routine
Meaning (21):
- repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
Example in sentence:- a stock answer;
- bromidic sermons;
- hackneyed phrases;
- his remarks were trite and commonplace;
- parroting some timeworn axiom;
- repeating threadbare jokes;
- the trite metaphor `hard as nails'
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