stock

noun stocks · stocken

1. countable, uncountable A store or supply.
2. countable, uncountable A store of goods ready for sale; inventory. We have a stock of televisions on hand.
3. countable, uncountable A supply of anything, stored until used; especially, such a supply that is ready for use. Lay in a stock of wood for the winter season.
4. countable, uncountable Railroad rolling stock. The Grand Trunk Railway had just purchased a large order of stock from the American Car and Foundry Company.

   Similar: rolling stock

5. countable, uncountable, in a card game A stack of undealt cards made available to the players.
6. countable, uncountable Farm or ranch animals; livestock. Good ranchers must continually keep watch over the health of their stock.

   Similar: livestock

7. countable, uncountable The population of a given type of animal (especially fish) available to be captured from the wild for economic use. The stocks of this fishery are recovering from overfishing, but the gains can easily reverse if our husbandry efforts lapse.
8. countable, uncountable The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares; the total of shares held by an individual shareholder. His grandpa had bought some stock in General Electric in 1905, and he refused to sell it ever after.
9. countable, uncountable 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.
10. US, countable, especially, uncountable A share in a company.
11. countable, figuratively, uncountable The measure of how highly a person or institution is valued. After that last screw-up of mine, my stock is pretty low around here.

    Similar: reputation

12. countable, uncountable Any of several types of security that are similar to a stock, or marketed like one.
13. countable, uncountable Broth made from meat (originally bones) or vegetables, used as a basis for stew or soup. They make beef stock from the butchery scraps that they otherwise might not have used.
14. countable, uncountable The type of paper used in printing. The books were printed on a heavier stock this year.

    Similar: card stock

15. abbreviation, countable, ellipsis, uncountable Ellipsis of film stock
16. countable, uncountable Plain soap before it is coloured and perfumed.
17. countable, uncountable Stock theater, summer stock theater.
18. countable, uncountable The trunk and woody main stems or limbs of a tree; the base from which something grows or branches. 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.
19. countable, uncountable The plant upon which the scion is grafted. The cion overruleth the stock quite.
20. broadly, countable, uncountable Lineage; family; ancestry. UUhat, ſhall I call thee brother? No, a foe, Monſter of Nature, ſhame vnto thy ſtocke, That darſt preſume thy Soueraigne for to mocke.
21. broadly, countable, uncountable A larger grouping of language families: a superfamily or macrofamily.
22. countable, uncountable Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.
23. countable, uncountable The part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shooter's shoulder. 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.
24. countable, uncountable The handle of a whip, fishing rod, etc.
25. countable, uncountable The headstock of a lathe, drill, etc.
26. countable, uncountable The tailstock of a lathe.
27. countable, uncountable A ski pole.
28. countable, uncountable A bar going through an anchor, perpendicular to the flukes. 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.
29. countable, uncountable The axle attached to the rudder, which transfers the movement of the helm to the rudder.

    Similar: rudder stock, rudderstock

30. countable, uncountable A pipe (vertical cylinder of ore)
31. countable, uncountable 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. 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.

    Similar: stock-tie

32. countable, uncountable A piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar.
33. countable, uncountable A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle
34. countable, uncountable A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical beings.
35. countable, obsolete, uncountable A cover for the legs; a stocking.
36. countable, uncountable A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post. When all our Fathers worſhip't Stocks and Stones,
37. broadly, countable, obsolete, uncountable 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.
38. UK, countable, historical, uncountable 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.
39. countable, in plural, uncountable The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.
40. UK, countable, in plural, uncountable Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
41. countable, uncountable In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
42. countable, uncountable The beater of a fulling mill. […]a somewhat rude machine called the stocks, and consisting of a pair of wooden mallets, worked alternately by a cog wheel.

Similar: feedstock, rootstock, understock

verb stocks · stocking · stocked

1. To have on hand for sale. The store stocks all kinds of dried vegetables.
2. To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply. to stock a warehouse with goods
3. To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.
4. To put in the stocks as punishment. 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
5. To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.
6. dated To arrange cards in a certain manner for cheating purposes; to stack the deck.

adjective

1. not comparable Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock. stock items
2. not comparable, of a race car Having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having been modified from such a car.
3. not comparable Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic. He gave me a stock answer.

noun stocks

1. A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.

proper noun Stocks

1. countable, uncountable A village and civil parish in Chelmsford district, Essex, England, United Kingdom (OS grid ref TQ6998).
2. countable, uncountable A surname. 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.
3. countable, diminutive, uncountable Diminutive of Stockton (“personal name”).