Word: stock Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- Proto-Germanic *stikanąder. Proto-Germanic *stukkaz Proto-West Germanic *stokk Old English stocc Middle English stok English stock From Middle English stok, from Old English stocc, from Proto-West Germanic *stokk, from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz (“tree-trunk”). Modern senses are 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. Pronunciation: /stɒk/, /stɑk/ 1. A store or supply. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A store or supply. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: We have a stock of televisions on hand. Example: I checked in the back of the stockroom and found some more stock. 3. A store or supply. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Lay in a stock of wood for the winter season. 4. A store or supply. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The Grand Trunk Railway had just purchased a large order of stock from the American Car and Foundry Company. 5. A store or supply. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A store or supply. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Good ranchers must continually keep watch over the health of their stock. Example: […] 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; […] 7. A store or supply. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The stocks of this fishery are recovering from overfishing, but the gains can easily reverse if our husbandry efforts lapse. 8. The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares; the total of shares held by an individual shareholder. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: His grandpa had bought some stock in General Electric in 1905, and he refused to sell it ever after. 9. The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares; the total of shares held by an individual shareholder. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: When the bad news came out, the company's stock dropped precipitously. 10. The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares; the total of shares held by an individual shareholder. Labels: US, countable, especially, uncountable 11. The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares; the total of shares held by an individual shareholder. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: After that last screw-up of mine, my stock is pretty low around here. Example: 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. 12. The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares; the total of shares held by an individual shareholder. Labels: countable, uncountable 13. The raw material from which things are made, such as feedstock. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: They make beef stock from the butchery scraps that they otherwise might not have used. 14. The raw material from which things are made, such as feedstock. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The books were printed on a heavier stock this year. 15. The raw material from which things are made, such as feedstock. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable 16. The raw material from which things are made, such as feedstock. Labels: countable, uncountable 17. Stock theater, summer stock theater. Labels: countable, uncountable 18. The trunk and woody main stems or limbs of a tree; the base from which something grows or branches. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 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. The trunk and woody main stems or limbs of a tree; the base from which something grows or branches. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The cion overruleth the stock quite. 20. The trunk and woody main stems or limbs of a tree; the base from which something grows or branches. Labels: broadly, countable, uncountable Example: UUhat, ſhall I call thee brother? No, a foe, Monſter of Nature, ſhame vnto thy ſtocke, That darſt preſume thy Soueraigne for to mocke. Example: 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. 21. The trunk and woody main stems or limbs of a tree; the base from which something grows or branches. Labels: broadly, countable, uncountable 22. Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola. Labels: countable, uncountable 23. A handle or stem to which the working part of an implement or weapon is attached. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 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. A handle or stem to which the working part of an implement or weapon is attached. Labels: countable, uncountable 25. Part of a machine that supports items or holds them in place. Labels: countable, uncountable 26. Part of a machine that supports items or holds them in place. Labels: countable, uncountable 27. A bar, stick, or rod. Labels: countable, uncountable 28. A bar, stick, or rod. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 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. A bar, stick, or rod. Labels: countable, uncountable 30. A bar, stick, or rod. Labels: countable, uncountable 31. A type of (now formal or official) neckwear. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 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. Example: 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. 32. A type of (now formal or official) neckwear. Labels: countable, uncountable 33. A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle Labels: countable, uncountable 34. A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical beings. Labels: countable, uncountable 35. A cover for the legs; a stocking. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 36. A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: When all our Fathers worſhip't Stocks and Stones, Example: 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. 37. A person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense. Labels: broadly, countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: Let's be no stoics, nor no stocks. 38. 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. Labels: UK, countable, historical, uncountable 39. The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction. Labels: countable, in-plural, uncountable 40. Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings. Labels: UK, countable, in-plural, uncountable 41. In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as trees, chains of salpae, etc. Labels: countable, uncountable 42. The beater of a fulling mill. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: […]a somewhat rude machine called the stocks, and consisting of a pair of wooden mallets, worked alternately by a cog wheel.