STOCK

banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn

(adjective) repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; “bromidic sermons”; “his remarks were trite and commonplace”; “hackneyed phrases”; “a stock answer”; “repeating threadbare jokes”; “parroting some timeworn axiom”; “the trite metaphor ‘hard as nails’”

standard, stock

(adjective) regularly and widely used or sold; “a standard size”; “a stock item”

stock

(adjective) routine; “a stock answer”

livestock, stock, farm animal

(noun) any animals kept for use or profit

neckcloth, stock

(noun) an ornamental white cravat

stock, inventory

(noun) the merchandise that a shop has on hand; “they carried a vast inventory of hardware”; “they stopped selling in exact sizes in order to reduce inventory”

stock

(noun) the handle end of some implements or tools; “he grabbed the cue by the stock”

stock, gunstock

(noun) 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; “the rifle had been fitted with a special stock”

stock

(noun) lumber used in the construction of something; “they will cut round stock to 1-inch diameter”

broth, stock

(noun) liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered; used as a basis for e.g. soups or sauces; “she made gravy with a base of beef stock”

breed, strain, stock

(noun) a special variety of domesticated animals within a species; “he experimented on a particular breed of white rats”; “he created a new strain of sheep”

lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock

(noun) the descendants of one individual; “his entire lineage has been warriors”

stock, gillyflower

(noun) any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers

stock

(noun) a plant or stem onto which a graft is made; especially a plant grown specifically to provide the root part of grafted plants

stock, caudex

(noun) persistent thickened stem of a herbaceous perennial plant

stock

(noun) the capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares entitling holders to an ownership interest (equity); “he owns a controlling share of the company’s stock”

store, stock, fund

(noun) a supply of something available for future use; “he brought back a large store of Cuban cigars”

stock

(noun) the reputation and popularity a person has; “his stock was so high he could have been elected mayor”

sprout, stock

(verb) put forth and grow sprouts or shoots; “the plant sprouted early this year”

stock, carry, stockpile

(verb) have on hand; “Do you carry kerosene heaters?”

stock

(verb) provide or furnish with a stock of something; “stock the larder with meat”

stock, buy in, stock up

(verb) amass so as to keep for future use or sale or for a particular occasion or use; “let’s stock coffee as long as prices are low”

stock

(verb) supply with livestock; “stock a farm”

stock

(verb) supply with fish; “stock a lake”

stock

(verb) equip with a stock; “stock a rifle”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology 1

Noun

stock (countable and uncountable, plural stocks)

A store or supply.

(operations) A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.

A supply of anything ready for use.

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.

(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 for a company on the stock market.

(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.

Ellipsis of film stock.

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.

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.

(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.

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 as trees, chains of salpae, etc.

The beater of a fulling mill.

Synonyms

• (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

Hyponyms

• buffer stock

• capital stock

• certificated stock

• coaching stock

• common stock

• corporate stock

• deferred stock

• empty stock working

• evening stock (Matthiola longipetala)

• growth stock

• gunstock

• hoary stock (Matthiola incana)

• laughingstock

• laughing stock

• livestock

• night-scented stock (Matthiola longipetala)

• penny stock

• preferred stock

• private stock

• rolling stock

• sad stock (Matthiola fruticulosa)

• sea stock (Matthiola sinuata)

• standing stock

• take stock

• three-horned stock (Matthiola tricuspidata)

• tracking stock

• treasury stock

• unissued stock

Verb

stock (third-person singular simple present stocks, present participle stocking, simple past and past participle stocked)

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

stock (not comparable)

Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.

(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.

Etymology 2

Noun

stock (plural stocks)

A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.

Anagrams

• 'tocks, tocks

Proper noun

Stock

A village in Essex, England.

A surname.

Anagrams

• 'tocks, tocks

Source: Wiktionary

Stock, n. Etym: [AS. stocc a stock, trunk, stick; akin to D. stok, G. stock, OHG. stoc, Icel. stokkr, Sw. stock, Dan. stok, and AS. stycce a piece; cf. Skr. tuj to urge, thrust. Cf. Stokker, Stucco, and Tuck a rapier.]

1. The stem, or main body, of a tree or plant; the fixed, strong, firm part; the trunk. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground, yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant. Job xiv. 8,9.

2. The stem or branch in which a graft is inserted. The scion overruleth the stock quite. Bacon.

3. A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post. All our fathers worshiped stocks and stones. Milton. 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. Fuller.

4. Hence, 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. Shak.

5. The principal supporting part; the part in which others are inserted, or to which they are attached. Specifically: -- (a) 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. (b) The handle or contrivance by which bits are held in boring; a bitstock; a brace. (c) (Joinery) 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. (d) (Naut.) The wooden or iron crosspiece to which the shank of an anchor is attached. See Illust. of Anchor. (e) The support of the block in which an anvil is fixed, or of the anvil itself. (f) A handle or wrench forming a holder for the dies for cutting screws; a diestock. (g) 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. [Eng.]

6. The original progenitor; also, the race or line of a family; the progenitor of a family and his direct descendants; lineage; family. And stand betwixt them made, when, severally, All told their stock. Chapman. Thy mother was no goddess, nor thy stock From Dardanus. Denham.

7. 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.

8. (Bookkeeping)

Definition: Same as Stock account, below.

9. Supply provided; store; accumulation; especially, a merchant's or manufacturer's store of goods; as, to lay in a stock of provisions. Add to that stock which justly we bestow. Dryden.

10. (Agric.)

Definition: Domestic animals or beasts collectively, used or raised on a farm; as, a stock of cattle or of sheep, etc.; -- called also live stock.

11. (Card Playing)

Definition: 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. I must buy the stock; send me good cardings. Beau. & Fl.

12. A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado. [Obs.]

13. Etym: [Cf. Stocking.]

Definition: A covering for the leg, or leg and foot; as, upper stocks (breeches); nether stocks (stockings). [Obs.] With a linen stock on one leg. Shak.

14. A kind of stiff, wide band or cravat for the neck; as, a silk stock.

15. pl.

Definition: A frame of timber, with holes in which the feet, or the feet and hands, of criminals were formerly confined by way of punishment. He shall rest in my stocks. Piers Plowman.

16. pl. (Shipbuilding)

Definition: The frame or timbers on which a ship rests while building.

17. pl.

Definition: Red and gray bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings. [Eng.]

18. (Bot.)

Definition: Any cruciferous plant of the genus Matthiola; as, common stock (Matthiola incana) (see Gilly-flower); ten-weeks stock (M. annua).

19. (Geol.)

Definition: An irregular metalliferous mass filling a large cavity in a rock formation, as a stock of lead ore deposited in limestone.

20. A race or variety in a species.

21. (Biol.)

Definition: In tectology, an aggregate or colony of persons (see Person), as trees, chains of salpæ, etc.

22. The beater of a fulling mill. Knight.

23. (Cookery)

Definition: 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. Bit stock. See Bitstock.

– Dead stock (Agric.), the implements of husbandry, and produce stored up for use; -- in distinction from live stock, or the domestic animals on the farm. See def. 10, above.

– Head stock. See Headstock.

– Paper stock, rags and other material of which paper is made.

– Stock account (Bookkeeping), an account on a merchant's ledger, one side of which shows the original capital, or stock, and the additions thereto by accumulation or contribution, the other side showing the amounts withdrawn.

– Stock car, a railway car for carrying cattle.

– Stock company (Com.), an incorporated company the capital of which is represented by marketable shares having a certain equal par value.

– Stock duck (Zoöl.), the mallard.

– Stock exchange. (a) The building or place where stocks are bought and sold; stock market; hence, transactions of all kinds in stocks. (b) An association or body of stockbrokers who meet and transact business by certain recognized forms, regulations, and usages. Wharton. Brande & C.

– Stock farmer, a farmer who makes it his business to rear live stock.

– Stock gillyflower (Bot.), the common stock. See Stock, n., 18.

– Stock gold, gold laid up so as to form a stock, or hoard.

– Stock in trade, the goods kept for sale by a shopkeeper; the fittings and appliances of a workman. Simmonds.

– Stock list, a list of stocks, or shares, dealt in, of transactions, and of prices.

– Stock lock, a lock inclosed in a wooden case and attached to the face of a door.

– Stock market. (a) A place where stocks are bought and sold; the stock exchange. (b) A market for live stock.

– Stock pigeon. (Zoöl.) Same as Stockdove.

– Stock purse. (a) A common purse, as distinguished from a private purse. (b) (Mil.) Moneys saved out of the expenses of a company or regiment, and applied to objects of common interest. [Eng.] -- Stock shave, a tool used by blockmakers.

– Stock station, a place or district for rearing stock. [Australia] W. Howitt.

– Stock tackle (Naut.), a tackle used when the anchor is hoisted and secured, to keep its stock clear of the ship's sides. Totten.

– Stock taking, an examination and inventory made of goods or stock in a shop or warehouse; -- usually made periodically.

– Tail stock. See Tailstock.

– To have something on the stock, to be at work at something.

– To take stock, to take account of stock; to make an inventory of stock or goods on hand. Dickens.

– To take stock in. (a) To subscribe for, or purchase, shares in a stock company. (b) To put faith in; to accept as trustworthy; as, to take stock in a person's fidelity. [Slang] -- To take stock of, to take account of the stock of; to take an inventory of; hence, to ascertain the facts in regard to (something). [Eng.] At the outset of any inquiry it is proper to take stock of the results obtained by previous explorers of the same field. Leslie Stephen.

Syn.

– Fund; capital; store; supply; accumulation; hoard; provision.

Stock, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stocked; p. pr. & vb. n. Stocking.]

1. To lay up; to put aside for future use; to store, as merchandise, and the like.

2. 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.

3. To suffer to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more previous to sale, as cows.

4. To put in the stocks. [R.] Shak. To stock an anchor (Naut.), to fit it with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.

– To stock cards (Card Playing), to arrange cards in a certain manner for cheating purposes. [Cant] -- To stock down (Agric.), to sow, as plowed land, with grass seed, in order that it may become swarded, and produce grass.

– To stock up, to extirpate; to dig up.

Stock, a.

Definition: 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. "A stock charge against Raleigh." C. Kingsley. Stock company (Theater), a company of actors regularly employed at one theater, or permanently acting together in various plays under one management.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

STOCK

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