stock

Meanings

Noun

• A store or supply.
• The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares. The total of shares held by an individual shareholder.
• The raw material from which things are made; feedstock.
• Stock theater, summer stock theater.
• The trunk and woody main stems of a tree. The base from which something grows or branches.
• 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.
• Part of a machine that supports items or holds them in place.
• A bar, stick or rod.
• A type of (now formal or official) neckwear.
• 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.
• A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.

Verb

• 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.

Adjective

• 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.
• Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic.

Related

Similar words

• livestock
• rolling stock
• feedstock
• card stock
• rootstock, understock
• rudder stock
• stock-tie

Narrower meaning words

• buffer stock
• capital stock
• certificated stock
• coaching stock
• common stock
• corporate stock
• deferred stock
• empty stock working
• Matthiola longipetala
• species
• growth stock
• Matthiola incana
• penny stock
• preference stock
• preferred stock
• private stock
• Matthiola fruticulosa
• Matthiola sinuata
• standing stock
• take stock
• Matthiola tricuspidata
• tracking stock
• treasury stock
• unissued stock

Origin

• 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 or the use of split tally sticks consisting of foil or counterfoil and stock to capture paid taxes, debts or exchanges. chock.
• From Italian stoccata.