stocks

stock  (stk)

n.

1. A supply accumulated for future use; a store.

2. The total merchandise kept on hand by a merchant, commercial establishment, warehouse, or manufacturer.

3. All the animals kept or raised on a farm; livestock.

4.

a. The capital or fund that a corporation raises through the sale of shares entitling the stockholder to dividends and to other rights of ownership, such as voting rights.

b. The number of shares that each stockholder possesses.

c. A stock certificate.

d. The part of a tally or record of account formerly given to a creditor.

e. A debt symbolized by a tally.

5. The trunk or main stem of a tree or another plant.

6.

a. A plant or stem onto which a graft is made.

b. A plant or tree from which cuttings and slips are taken.

7.

a. The original progenitor of a family line.

b. The descendants of a common ancestor; a family line, especially of a specified character: comes from farming stock.

c. Ancestry or lineage; antecedents.

d. The type from which a group of animals or plants has descended.

e. A race, family, or other related group of animals or plants.

f. An ethnic group or other major division of the human race.

g. A group of related languages.

h. A group of related families of languages.

8. The raw material out of which something is made.

9. The broth in which meat, fish, bones, or vegetables are simmered for a relatively long period, used as a base in preparing soup, gravy, or sauces.

10.

a. A main upright part, especially a supporting structure or block.

b. stocks Nautical The timber frame that supports a ship during construction.

c. A frame in which a horse or other animal is held for shoeing or for veterinary treatment. Often used in the plural.

11. stocks A device consisting of a heavy timber frame with holes for confining the ankles and sometimes the wrists, formerly used for punishment.

12. Nautical A crosspiece at the end of the shank of an anchor.

13. The wooden block from which a bell is suspended.

14.

a. The rear wooden, metal, or plastic handle or support of a rifle, pistol, or automatic weapon, to which the barrel and mechanism are attached.

b. The long supporting structure and mooring beam of field-gun carriages that trails along the ground to provide stability and support.

15. A handle, such as that of a whip, a fishing rod, or various carpentry tools.

16. The frame of a plow, to which the share, handles, coulter, and other parts are fastened.

17.

a. A theatrical stock company.

b. The repertoire of such a company.

c. A theater or theatrical activity, especially outside of a main theatrical center: a small role in summer stock.

18. Botany Any of several Eurasian and Mediterranean plants of the genus Matthiola in the mustard family, especially M. incana, widely cultivated for its clusters of showy, variously colored flowers.

19. Games The portion of a pack of cards or of a group of dominoes that is not dealt out but is drawn from during a game.

20. Geology A body of intrusive igneous rock of which less than 100 square kilometers (40 square miles) is exposed.

21. Zoology A compound organism, such as a colony of zooids.

22.

a. Personal reputation or status: a teacher whose stock with the students is rising.

b. Confidence or credence: I put no stock in that statement.

23.

a. A long white neckcloth worn as part of a formal riding habit.

b. A broad scarf worn around the neck, especially by certain clerics.

24. Rolling stock.

v. stocked, stock·ing, stocks

v.tr.

1. To provide or furnish with a stock of something, especially:

a. To supply (a shop) with merchandise.

b. To supply (a farm) with livestock.

c. To fill (a stream, for example) with fish.

2. To keep for future sale or use.

3. To provide (a rifle, for example) with a stock.

4. Obsolete To put (someone) in the stocks as a punishment.

v.intr.

1. To gather and lay in a supply of something: stock up on canned goods.

2. To put forth or sprout new shoots. Used of a plant.

adj.

1. Kept regularly in stock: a stock item.

2. Repeated regularly without any thought or originality; routine: a stock answer.

3. Employed in dealing with or caring for stock or merchandise: a stock clerk.

4.

a. Of or relating to the raising of livestock: stock farming.

b. Used for breeding: a stock mare.

5.

a. Of or relating to a stock company or its repertoire.

b. Of or being a conventional character or situation that recurs in many literary or cinematic works.

Idioms:

in stock

Available for sale or use; on hand.

out of stock

Not available for sale or use.

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[Middle English stok, from Old English stocc, tree trunk.]

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stockage n.

stocker n.

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stocks [stɒks]

pl n

1. (Historical Terms) History an instrument of punishment consisting of a heavy wooden frame with holes in which the feet, hands, or head of an offender were locked

2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Veterinary Science) a frame in which an animal is held while receiving veterinary attention or while being shod

3. (Transport / Nautical Terms) a frame used to support a boat while under construction

4. (Transport / Nautical Terms) Nautical a vertical post or shaft at the forward edge of a rudder, extended upwards for attachment to the steering controls

(Transport / Nautical Terms)

on the stocks in preparation or under construction

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The quantity of supplies and material on hand ready for use. See also operational stocks; theater operational stocks.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	stocks - a frame that supports a boat while it is under construction framework - a structure supporting or containing something plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one
	2.	stocks - a frame for constraining an animal while it is receiving veterinary attention or while being shod framework - a structure supporting or containing something plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one
	3.	stocks - a former instrument of punishment consisting of a heavy timber frame with holes in which the feet (and sometimes the hands) of an offender could be locked instrument of punishment - an instrument designed and used to punish a condemned person plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one