stock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: stŏk
ipa: /stɒk/
enpr: stäk
ipa: /stɑk/
rhymes: -ɒk
homophone: stalk (cot–caught merger)
homophone: stark (non-rhotic, father-bother merger)
Forms: form: stocks
form: stocken
Etymology: From Middle English stok, from Old English stocc, from Proto-West Germanic *stokk, from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz (“tree-trunk”), 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. The senses of "supply" and "raw material" arose from a probable conflation with steck (“an item of goods, merchandise”) or the use of split tally sticks consisting of foil or counterfoil and stock to capture paid taxes, debts or exchanges. Doublet of chock.
Senses: examples: example
glosses: A store or supply.
examples: text: We have a stock of televisions on hand.
text: I checked in the back of the stockroom and found some more stock.
glosses: A store or supply.
A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.
qualifier: operations
examples: text: Lay in a stock of wood for the winter season.
glosses: A store or supply.
A supply of anything, stored until used; especially, such a supply that is ready for use.
examples: text: The Grand Trunk Railway had just purchased a large order of stock from the American Car and Foundry Company.
glosses: A store or supply.
Railroad rolling stock.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: A store or supply.
A stack of undealt cards made available to the players.
raw_tags: in a card game
examples: text: Good ranchers must continually keep watch over the health of their stock.
text: […] 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; […]
ref: 1881, William Rowntrie Robertson, Reports on the Agricultural Conditions, Capabilities, and Prospects Of The Neilgherry And Coimbatore Districts, page 33:
glosses: A store or supply.
Farm or ranch animals; livestock.
examples: text: The stocks of this fishery are recovering from overfishing, but the gains can easily reverse if our husbandry efforts lapse.
glosses: A store or supply.
The population of a given type of animal (especially fish) available to be captured from the wild for economic use.
examples: text: His grandpa had bought some stock in General Electric in 1905, and he refused to sell it ever after.
topics: business
finance
glosses: The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares; the total of shares held by an individual shareholder.
examples: text: When the bad news came out, the company's stock dropped precipitously.
topics: business
finance
glosses: 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.
topics: business
finance
glosses: The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares; the total of shares held by an individual shareholder.
A share in a company.
examples: text: After that last screw-up of mine, my stock is pretty low around here.
text: 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.
ref: 2022 January 17, Jonathan Martin, Maggie Haberman, “Who Is King of Florida? Tensions Rise Between Trump and a Former Acolyte.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: business
finance
glosses: The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares; the total of shares held by an individual shareholder.
The measure of how highly a person or institution is valued.
synonyms: reputation
topics: business
finance
glosses: The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares; the total of shares held by an individual shareholder.
Any of several types of security that are similar to a stock, or marketed like one.
examples: text: They make beef stock from the butchery scraps that they otherwise might not have used.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: The raw material from which things are made, such as feedstock.
Broth made from meat (originally bones) or vegetables, used as a basis for stew or soup.
examples: text: The books were printed on a heavier stock this year.
glosses: The raw material from which things are made, such as feedstock.
The type of paper used in printing.
glosses: The raw material from which things are made, such as feedstock.
Ellipsis of film stock.
glosses: The raw material from which things are made, such as feedstock.
Plain soap before it is coloured and perfumed.
glosses: Stock theater, summer stock theater.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 14:8–9:
glosses: The trunk and woody main stems or limbs of a tree; the base from which something grows or branches.
examples: text: The cion overruleth the stock quite.
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
glosses: The trunk and woody main stems or limbs of a tree; the base from which something grows or branches.
The plant upon which the scion is grafted.
coordinate_terms: scion#Noun
examples: text: UUhat, ſhall I call thee brother? No, a foe,
Monſter of Nature, ſhame vnto thy ſtocke,
That darſt preſume thy Soueraigne for to mocke.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [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:
text: 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.
ref: 2003 November 14, Jacques Peretti, “You are a bad man trying to do bad things to Vincent”, in The Guardian:
text: 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 […]
ref: 2010, Lewis Richard Farnell, The Cults of the Greek States, page 108:
glosses: The trunk and woody main stems or limbs of a tree; the base from which something grows or branches.
Lineage; family; ancestry.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The trunk and woody main stems or limbs of a tree; the base from which something grows or branches.
Lineage; family; ancestry.
A larger grouping of language families: a superfamily or macrofamily.
glosses: Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2013, Tom Turpin, Modern Custom Guns: Walnut, Steel, and Uncommon Artistry, 2nd edition, Iola, Wis.: Gun Digest Books, →ISBN, page 47:
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A handle or stem to which the working part of an implement or weapon is attached.
The part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shooter's shoulder.
glosses: A handle or stem to which the working part of an implement or weapon is attached.
The handle of a whip, fishing rod, etc.
glosses: Part of a machine that supports items or holds them in place.
The headstock of a lathe, drill, etc.
glosses: Part of a machine that supports items or holds them in place.
The tailstock of a lathe.
glosses: A bar, stick, or rod.
A ski pole.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 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:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A bar, stick, or rod.
A bar going through an anchor, perpendicular to the flukes.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A bar, stick, or rod.
The axle attached to the rudder, which transfers the movement of the helm to the rudder.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A bar, stick, or rod.
A pipe (vertical cylinder of ore)
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1915, W. Somerset Maugham, “chapter 116”, in Of Human Bondage:
text: 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.
ref: 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), page 417:
glosses: 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.
glosses: A type of (now formal or official) neckwear.
A piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar.
glosses: A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle
topics: arts
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
glosses: A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical beings.
glosses: A cover for the legs; a stocking.
examples: text: When all our Fathers worſhip't Stocks and Stones,
ref: 1673, John Milton, “[Sonnet] XV. On the late Massacher in Piemont.”, in Poems, &c. upon Several Occasions, London: […] Tho[mas] Dring […], →OCLC, page 58:
text: 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.
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The History of Waltham Abbey:
glosses: A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
examples: text: Let's be no stoics, nor no stocks.
ref: 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]:
glosses: A person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense.
glosses: 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.
topics: business
manufacturing
shipbuilding
glosses: The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.
glosses: Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
examples: text: […]a somewhat rude machine called the stocks, and consisting of a pair of wooden mallets, worked alternately by a cog wheel.
ref: 1842, Jam Bischoff, A Comprehensive History of the Woollen and Worsted Manufactures:
glosses: The beater of a fulling mill.
Synonyms: sense: farm or ranch animals
word: livestock
sense: railroad equipment
word: rolling stock
sense: raw material
word: feedstock
sense: paper for printing
word: card stock
sense: plant used in grafting
word: rootstock
sense: plant used in grafting
word: understock
sense: axle attached to rudder
word: rudder stock
sense: axle attached to rudder
word: rudderstock
sense: wide necktie
word: stock-tie
Hyponyms: word: buffer stock
word: capital stock
word: certificated stock
word: coaching stock
word: common stock
word: corporate stock
word: deferred stock
word: empty stock working
taxonomic: Matthiola longipetala
word: evening stock
word: fish stock
word: growth stock
taxonomic: Matthiola incana
word: hoary stock
taxonomic: Matthiola longipetala
word: night-scented stock
word: penny stock
word: preference stock
word: preferred stock
word: private stock
word: restricted stock
taxonomic: Matthiola fruticulosa
word: sad stock
taxonomic: Matthiola sinuata
word: sea stock
word: standing stock
word: stock horse
word: take stock
taxonomic: Matthiola tricuspidata
word: three-horned stock
word: tracking stock
word: treasury stock
word: unissued stock
Derived terms: bar stock
bump stock
bump-stock
bun stock
cover stock
cult stock
dead stock
dead-stock
empty coaching stock
ex-stock
ex stock
fancy stock
green stock
green stocks
gunstock
gun stock
hepping-stock
hook stock
housing stock
in stock
jesting-stock
joint-stock bank
joint-stock company
laughing-stock
laughingstock
laughing stock
letter stock
livestock
live-stock
live stock
Mannlicher stock
master stock
meme stock
on the stock
on the stocks
out of stock
phantom stock
pointing-stock
put stock in
rolling stock
safety stock
scoffing-stock
seed stock
shadow stock
stand stock still
still as a stock
stock account
stockade
stock-and-trade
stock and trade
stock animal
stock answer
stock ball
stock-bow
stock bowler
stock-boy
stock boy
stockbroker
stock bubble
stock car
stock certificate
stock character
stock company
stock control
stock cube
stock dove
stock down
stock exchange
stockfish
stock footage
stock-gillyflower
stockholder
stocking
stock in trade
stock-in-trade
stockish
stockist
stockjobber
stock-keeping unit
stock knowledge
stock lending
stockless
stocklist
stock list
stock loan
stock lock
stockman
stock market
stock market crash
stock market index
stock melon
stock of record
stock of trade
stock option
stockout
stock-out
stock out
stock photo
stock phrase
stockpicker
stock-picker
stock picker
stock pigeon
stockpile
stock pond
stock pot
stock price
stock prod
stock promoter
stock room
stocks
stock sheet
stock split
stock-still
stock still
stock symbol
stock tackle
stock-take
stock-taking
stock ticker
stock ticker symbol
stock up
stock-up
stock variable
stock vehicle
stock video
stocky
stockyard
stonks
street stock
stumbling stock
trustee stock
Virginia stock
watered stock
word-stock