Meaning of stock | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A village and civil parish in Chelmsford district, Essex, England, United Kingdom (OS grid ref TQ6998).
   countable, uncountable
2. A store or supply.
   countable, uncountable
3. A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.
4. A surname.
   countable, uncountable
5. A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.
   countable, uncountable
6. A supply of anything, stored until used; especially, such a supply that is ready for use.
   countable, uncountable
7. Railroad rolling stock.
   countable, uncountable
8. A stack of undealt cards made available to the players.
   countable, uncountable
9. Farm or ranch animals; livestock.
   countable, uncountable
10. The population of a given type of animal (especially fish) available to be captured from the wild for economic use.
    countable, uncountable
11. The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares; the total of shares held by an individual shareholder.
    countable, uncountable
12. The price or value of the stock of a company on the stock market.
    countable, uncountable
13. A share in a company.
    US, countable, especially, uncountable
14. The measure of how highly a person or institution is valued.
    countable, figuratively, uncountable
15. Any of several types of security that are similar to a stock, or marketed like one.
    countable, uncountable
16. The raw material from which things are made, such as feedstock.
    countable, uncountable
17. Broth made from meat (originally bones) or vegetables, used as a basis for stew or soup.
    countable, uncountable
18. The type of paper used in printing.
    countable, uncountable
19. Ellipsis of film stock.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
20. Plain soap before it is coloured and perfumed.
    countable, uncountable
21. Stock theater, summer stock theater.
    countable, uncountable
22. The trunk and woody main stems or limbs of a tree; the base from which something grows or branches.
    countable, uncountable
23. The plant upon which the scion is grafted.
    countable, uncountable
24. Lineage; family; ancestry.
    broadly, countable, uncountable
25. A larger grouping of language families: a superfamily or macrofamily.
    broadly, countable, uncountable
26. Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.
    countable, uncountable
27. A handle or stem to which the working part of an implement or weapon is attached.
    countable, uncountable
28. The part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shooter's shoulder.
    countable, uncountable
29. The handle of a whip, fishing rod, etc.
    countable, uncountable
30. Part of a machine that supports items or holds them in place.
    countable, uncountable
31. The headstock of a lathe, drill, etc.
    countable, uncountable
32. The tailstock of a lathe.
    countable, uncountable
33. A bar, stick, or rod.
    countable, uncountable
34. A ski pole.
    countable, uncountable
35. A bar going through an anchor, perpendicular to the flukes.
    countable, uncountable
36. The axle attached to the rudder, which transfers the movement of the helm to the rudder.
    countable, uncountable
37. A pipe (vertical cylinder of ore)
    countable, uncountable
38. A type of (now formal or official) neckwear.
    countable, uncountable
39. 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.
    countable, uncountable
40. A piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar.
    countable, uncountable
41. A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle
    countable, uncountable
42. A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical beings.
    countable, uncountable
43. A cover for the legs; a stocking.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
44. A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
    countable, uncountable
45. A person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense.
    broadly, countable, obsolete, uncountable
46. 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.
    UK, countable, historical, uncountable
47. The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.
    countable, in-plural, uncountable
48. Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
    UK, countable, in-plural, uncountable
49. In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
    countable, uncountable
50. The beater of a fulling mill.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“We have a stock of televisions on hand.”

“I checked in the back of the stockroom and found some more stock.”

“Lay in a stock of wood for the winter season.”

“The Grand Trunk Railway had just purchased a large order of stock from the American Car and Foundry Company.”

“Good ranchers must continually keep watch over the health of their stock.”

“[…] the open land is generally covered by a grass which grows in tussacs, and produces tufts of hard, crisp, pointed blades. Stock will never willingly eat this grass; […]”

“The stocks of this fishery are recovering from overfishing, but the gains can easily reverse if our husbandry efforts lapse.”

“His grandpa had bought some stock in General Electric in 1905, and he refused to sell it ever after.”

“When the bad news came out, the company's stock dropped precipitously.”

“After that last screw-up of mine, my stock is pretty low around here.”

“With his stock rising fast in the party, the governor has conspicuously refrained from saying he would stand aside if Mr. Trump runs for the Republican nomination for president in 2024.”

“They make beef stock from the butchery scraps that they otherwise might not have used.”

“The books were printed on a heavier stock this year.”

“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.”

“The cion overruleth the stock quite.”

“UUhat, ſhall I call thee brother? No, a foe, Monſter of Nature, ſhame vnto thy ſtocke, That darſt preſume thy Soueraigne for to mocke.”

“His hatred is not based upon whom these people are (like many rightwing Republicans, Gallo comes from immigrant stock), but how easily these people have come by success in America.”

“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 […]”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Let's be no stoics, nor no stocks.”

“[…]a somewhat rude machine called the stocks, and consisting of a pair of wooden mallets, worked alternately by a cog wheel.”

“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.”

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