stock
The English word “stock” has 55 meanings listed here.
- A store or supply.
- A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.
- A supply of anything, stored until used; especially, such a supply that is ready for use.
- Railroad rolling stock.
- 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.
- 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.
- A share in a company.
- 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, such as feedstock.
- 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.
- 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.
- Lineage; family; ancestry.
- 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.
- 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.
- A bar going through an anchor, perpendicular to the flukes.
- The axle attached to the rudder, which transfers the movement of the helm to the rudder.
- 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
- A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical beings.
- A cover for the legs; a stocking.
- A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
- A person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense.
- 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.
- The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.
- Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
- In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
- The beater of a fulling mill.
- 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.
- To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.
- To arrange cards in a certain manner for cheating purposes; to stack the deck.
- Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.
- Having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having been modified from such a car.
- A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.
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