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stock

  [stok] ,
Use stock in a Sentence
–noun
1. a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
2. a quantity of something accumulated, as for future use: a stock of provisions.
3. livestock.
4. Theater. a stock company: a job in summer stock.
5. Finance.
a. the outstanding capital of a company or corporation.
b. the shares of a particular company or corporation.
c. the certificate of ownership of such stock; stock certificate.
d. (formerly) a tally or stick used in transactions between a debtor and a creditor.
6. Horticulture.
a. Also called understock. in grafting, a stem in which the bud or scion is inserted.
b. a stem, tree, or plant that furnishes slips or cuttings; stock plant.
7. the trunk or main stem of a tree or other plant, as distinguished from roots and branches.
8. the type from which a group of animals or plants has been derived.
9. a race or other related group of animals or plants.
10. the person from whom a given line of descent is derived; the original progenitor.
11. a line of descent; a tribe, race, or ethnic group.
12. Linguistics. a category consisting of language families that, because of resemblances in grammatical structure and vocabulary, are considered likely to be related by common origin. Compare family (def. 14), phylum (def. 2).
13. any grouping of related languages.
14. the handle of a whip, fishing rod, etc.
15. Firearms.
a. the wooden or metal piece to which the barrel and mechanism of a rifle are attached.
b. a part of an automatic weapon, as a machine gun, similar in position or function.
16. the trunk or stump of a tree, left standing.
17. a dull or stupid person.
18. something lifeless or senseless.
19. the main upright part of anything, esp. a supporting structure.
20. stocks,
a. a former instrument of punishment consisting of a framework with holes for securing the ankles and, sometimes, the wrists, used to expose an offender to public derision. Compare pillory (def. 1).
b. a frame in which a horse or other animal is secured in a standing position for shoeing or for a veterinary operation.
c. the frame on which a boat rests while under construction.
21. Nautical.
a. a vertical shaft forming part of a rudder and controlling the rudder's movement.
b. a transverse piece of wood or metal near the ring on some anchors.
22. the metal or wooden body of a carpenter's plane.
23. Metallurgy.
a. material being smelted in a blast furnace.
b. a metal piece to be forged.
24. Printing.
a. a specified quality or kind of paper: glossy stock; card stock; offset stock.
b. the paper for printing a particular job: We don't have enough stock for that large a run.
25. the raw material from which something is made.
26. Papermaking. stuff (def. 15).
27. Cookery. the liquor or broth prepared by boiling meat, fish, chicken, etc., with or without vegetables or seasonings, and used esp. as a foundation for soups and sauces.
28. any of several plants belonging to the genus Matthiola, of the mustard family, esp. M. incana, having fragrant white, blue, purple, reddish, or yellowish flowers.
29. a rhizome or rootstock.
30. Zoology. a compound organism, as a colony of corals.
31. a collar or a neckcloth fitting like a band around the neck.
32. Cards. the portion of a pack of cards that, in certain games, is not dealt out to the players, but is left on the table, to be drawn from as occasion requires.
33. an adjustable wrench for holding dies for cutting screws.
34. Railroads. rolling stock.
35. Dominoes. boneyard (def. 3).
36. Informal. stock car (def. 1).
37. Roman Catholic Church. one of a set of three metal containers for holy oil.
38. Geology, Mining. an irregular igneous intrusion, usually an offshoot of a batholith, often mineralized.
39. Archaic. a stocking.
40. Obsolete. the frame of a plow to which the share, handles, etc., are attached.
–adjective
41. kept regularly on hand, as for use or sale; staple; standard: stock articles.
42. having as one's job the care of a concern's goods: a stock clerk.
43. of the common or ordinary type; in common use: a stock argument.
44. banal; commonplace: a stock remark.
45. pertaining to or designating the breeding and raising of livestock: stock farming.
46. Southern U.S. (chiefly Southern Appalachian and South Atlantic States). (of farm animals) being a fully grown male: a stock hog.
47. of or pertaining to the stock of a company or corporation: a stock report.
48. Theater.
a. pertaining to a stock company.
b. appearing together in a repertoire, as a company.
c. forming part of a repertoire, as a play.
d. being a character type fixed by convention, as in the commedia dell'-arte, a harlequinade, minstrel show, or the like.
49. Informal. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a stock car.
–verb (used with object)
50. to furnish with a stock or supply.
51. to furnish with stock, as a farm with horses, cattle, etc.
52. to lay up in store, as for future use.
53. to fasten to or provide with a stock, as a rifle, plow, bell, anchor, etc.
54. to put in the stocks as a punishment.
–verb (used without object)
55. to lay in a stock of something (often fol. by up).
—Idioms
56. in stock, on hand for use or sale: There are no more blue skirts in stock.
57. lock, stock, and barrel. lock 1 (def. 29).
58. on the stocks,
a. under construction, as esp. a ship.
b. in progress or preparation: a new novel on the stocks.
59. out of stock, lacking a supply of, esp. temporarily: We are out of stock in this item.
60. take or put stock in, to put confidence in or attach importance to; believe; trust: Considering his general unreliability, I can't take stock in what he has told you.
61. take stock,
a. to make an inventory of stock on hand.
b. to make an appraisal of resources or prospects: She took stock of her decorating scheme and decided it was time for a change.
Origin:
bef. 900; (n.) ME; OE stoc(c) stump, stake, post, log; c. G Stock, ON stokkr tree-trunk; (v.) deriv. of the n.

Related forms:
stocklike, adjective

Synonyms:
1. store, provision, reserve. 11. lineage, family. 14. haft. 43. usual.
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bone⋅yard

  [bohn-yahrd]
–noun
1. Slang. a cemetery.
2. Slang. an area where old or discarded cars, ships, planes, etc., are collected prior to being broken up for scrap or otherwise disposed of.
3. Also called stock. Dominoes. the bank, consisting of the remaining dominoes after each person has made an initial draw.
4. a place or area where the bones of wild animals accumulate or are collected.
Origin:
1850–55, Americanism; bone1 + yard 2

rolling stock

 
–noun
the wheeled vehicles of a railroad, including locomotives, freight cars, and passenger cars.
Also, stock.

Origin:
1850–55

stuff

  [stuhf]
–noun
1. the material of which anything is made: a hard, crystalline stuff.
2. material to be worked upon or to be used in making something: wood, steel, and other stuff for building.
3. material of some unspecified kind: a cushion filled with some soft stuff.
4. Chiefly British. woven material or fabric, esp. wool.
5. property, as personal belongings or equipment; things.
6. something to be swallowed, as food, drink, or medicine.
7. inward character, qualities, or capabilities: to have good stuff in one.
8. Informal. action or talk of a particular kind: kid stuff; Cut out the rough stuff.
9. worthless things or matter: to clean the stuff out of a closet.
10. worthless or foolish ideas, talk, or writing: a lot of stuff and nonsense.
11. Sports.
a. Baseball. the assortment of pitches that a pitcher uses in a game together with the ability to deliver them in the proper manner at the right speed to the desired spot: He saved his best stuff for the tougher hitters in the lineup.
b. spin or speed imparted to a ball, as by a baseball pitcher, a bowler, or a tennis player: a pitch with plenty of stuff.
12. Informal. journalistic, literary, artistic, dramatic, musical, or other compositions or performances: Bach composed some splendid stuff.
13. Informal. one's trade, skill, field, facts, etc.: She knows her stuff.
14. Slang. any kind of drug, esp. an illicit one.
15. Also called stock. Papermaking. refined and beaten wet pulp ready for spreading on the wire.
–verb (used with object)
16. to fill (a receptacle), esp. by packing the contents closely together; cram full.
17. to fill (an aperture, cavity, etc.) by forcing something into it.
18. to fill or line with some kind of material as a padding or packing.
19. to fill or cram (oneself, one's stomach, etc.) with food.
20. to fill (meat, vegetables, etc.) with seasoned bread crumbs or other savory matter.
21. to fill the preserved skin of (a dead animal) with material, retaining its natural form and appearance for display.
22. to put fraudulent votes into (a ballot box).
23. to thrust or cram (something) into a receptacle, cavity, or the like.
24. to pack tightly in a confined place; crowd together.
25. to crowd (a vehicle, room, etc.) with persons.
26. to clutter or fill (the mind) with facts, details, etc.
27. (in leather manufacturing) to treat (a skin, hide, etc.) with a composition of tallow and other ingredients.
28. to stop up or plug; block or choke (usually fol. by up).
–verb (used without object)
29. to cram oneself with food; eat gluttonously; gorge.
Origin:
1300–50; (v.) late ME stuffen to equip, furnish < OF estoffer lit., to stuff < Frankish *stopfōn, *stoppōn (see stop ); (n.) ME < OF estoffe, deriv. of the v.

Related forms:
stuffless, adjective

Synonyms:
1, 2, 3. See matter. 9. waste, rubbish, trash. 10. nonsense, twaddle, claptrap, balderdash. 23. press, stow. 28. obstruct.
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stock   (stŏk)   
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.
    1. 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.
    2. The number of shares that each stockholder possesses.
    3. A stock certificate.
    4. The part of a tally or record of account formerly given to a creditor.
    5. A debt symbolized by a tally.
    6. A plant or stem onto which a graft is made.
    7. A plant or tree from which cuttings and slips are taken.
    8. The original progenitor of a family line.
    9. The descendants of a common ancestor; a family line, especially of a specified character: comes from farming stock.
    10. Ancestry or lineage; antecedents.
    11. The type from which a group of animals or plants has descended.
    12. A race, family, or other related group of animals or plants.
    13. An ethnic group or other major division of the human race.
    14. A group of related languages.
    15. A group of related families of languages.
    16. A main upright part, especially a supporting structure or block.
    17. stocks Nautical The timber frame that supports a ship during construction.
    18. A frame in which a horse or other animal is held for shoeing or for veterinary treatment. Often used in the plural.
    19. The rear wooden, metal, or plastic handle or support of a rifle, pistol, or automatic weapon, to which the barrel and mechanism are attached.
    20. The long supporting structure and mooring beam of field-gun carriages that trails along the ground to provide stability and support.
    21. A theatrical stock company.
    22. The repertoire of such a company.
    23. A theater or theatrical activity, especially outside of a main theatrical center: a small role in summer stock.
    24. Personal reputation or status: a teacher whose stock with the students is rising.
    25. Confidence or credence: I put no stock in that statement.
    26. A long white neckcloth worn as part of a formal riding habit.
    27. A broad scarf worn around the neck, especially by certain clerics.
  5. The trunk or main stem of a tree or another plant.
    1. A plant or stem onto which a graft is made.
    2. A plant or tree from which cuttings and slips are taken.
    3. The original progenitor of a family line.
    4. The descendants of a common ancestor; a family line, especially of a specified character: comes from farming stock.
    5. Ancestry or lineage; antecedents.
    6. The type from which a group of animals or plants has descended.
    7. A race, family, or other related group of animals or plants.
    8. An ethnic group or other major division of the human race.
    9. A group of related languages.
    10. A group of related families of languages.
    11. A main upright part, especially a supporting structure or block.
    12. stocks Nautical The timber frame that supports a ship during construction.
    13. A frame in which a horse or other animal is held for shoeing or for veterinary treatment. Often used in the plural.
    14. The rear wooden, metal, or plastic handle or support of a rifle, pistol, or automatic weapon, to which the barrel and mechanism are attached.
    15. The long supporting structure and mooring beam of field-gun carriages that trails along the ground to provide stability and support.
    16. A theatrical stock company.
    17. The repertoire of such a company.
    18. A theater or theatrical activity, especially outside of a main theatrical center: a small role in summer stock.
    19. Personal reputation or status: a teacher whose stock with the students is rising.
    20. Confidence or credence: I put no stock in that statement.
    21. A long white neckcloth worn as part of a formal riding habit.
    22. A broad scarf worn around the neck, especially by certain clerics.
    1. The original progenitor of a family line.
    2. The descendants of a common ancestor; a family line, especially of a specified character: comes from farming stock.
    3. Ancestry or lineage; antecedents.
    4. The type from which a group of animals or plants has descended.
    5. A race, family, or other related group of animals or plants.
    6. An ethnic group or other major division of the human race.
    7. A group of related languages.
    8. A group of related families of languages.
    9. A main upright part, especially a supporting structure or block.
    10. stocks Nautical The timber frame that supports a ship during construction.
    11. A frame in which a horse or other animal is held for shoeing or for veterinary treatment. Often used in the plural.
    12. The rear wooden, metal, or plastic handle or support of a rifle, pistol, or automatic weapon, to which the barrel and mechanism are attached.
    13. The long supporting structure and mooring beam of field-gun carriages that trails along the ground to provide stability and support.
    14. A theatrical stock company.
    15. The repertoire of such a company.
    16. A theater or theatrical activity, especially outside of a main theatrical center: a small role in summer stock.
    17. Personal reputation or status: a teacher whose stock with the students is rising.
    18. Confidence or credence: I put no stock in that statement.
    19. A long white neckcloth worn as part of a formal riding habit.
    20. A broad scarf worn around the neck, especially by certain clerics.
  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.
    1. A main upright part, especially a supporting structure or block.
    2. stocks Nautical The timber frame that supports a ship during construction.
    3. A frame in which a horse or other animal is held for shoeing or for veterinary treatment. Often used in the plural.
    4. The rear wooden, metal, or plastic handle or support of a rifle, pistol, or automatic weapon, to which the barrel and mechanism are attached.
    5. The long supporting structure and mooring beam of field-gun carriages that trails along the ground to provide stability and support.
    6. A theatrical stock company.
    7. The repertoire of such a company.
    8. A theater or theatrical activity, especially outside of a main theatrical center: a small role in summer stock.
    9. Personal reputation or status: a teacher whose stock with the students is rising.
    10. Confidence or credence: I put no stock in that statement.
    11. A long white neckcloth worn as part of a formal riding habit.
    12. A broad scarf worn around the neck, especially by certain clerics.
  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.
    1. The rear wooden, metal, or plastic handle or support of a rifle, pistol, or automatic weapon, to which the barrel and mechanism are attached.
    2. The long supporting structure and mooring beam of field-gun carriages that trails along the ground to provide stability and support.
    3. A theatrical stock company.
    4. The repertoire of such a company.
    5. A theater or theatrical activity, especially outside of a main theatrical center: a small role in summer stock.
    6. Personal reputation or status: a teacher whose stock with the students is rising.
    7. Confidence or credence: I put no stock in that statement.
    8. A long white neckcloth worn as part of a formal riding habit.
    9. A broad scarf worn around the neck, especially by certain clerics.
  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.
    1. A theatrical stock company.
    2. The repertoire of such a company.
    3. A theater or theatrical activity, especially outside of a main theatrical center: a small role in summer stock.
    4. Personal reputation or status: a teacher whose stock with the students is rising.
    5. Confidence or credence: I put no stock in that statement.
    6. A long white neckcloth worn as part of a formal riding habit.
    7. A broad scarf worn around the neck, especially by certain clerics.
  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.
    1. Personal reputation or status: a teacher whose stock with the students is rising.
    2. Confidence or credence: I put no stock in that statement.
    3. A long white neckcloth worn as part of a formal riding habit.
    4. A broad scarf worn around the neck, especially by certain clerics.
    1. A long white neckcloth worn as part of a formal riding habit.
    2. 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:
    1. To supply (a shop) with merchandise.
    2. To supply (a farm) with livestock.
    3. 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.
    1. Of or relating to the raising of livestock: stock farming.
    2. Used for breeding: a stock mare.
    3. Of or relating to a stock company or its repertoire.
    4. Of or being a conventional character or situation that recurs in many literary or cinematic works.
    1. Of or relating to a stock company or its repertoire.
    2. Of or being a conventional character or situation that recurs in many literary or cinematic works.

[Middle English stok, from Old English stocc, tree trunk.]
stock'age n., stock'er n.
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Stock\, n. 1. Raw material; that out of which something is manufactured; as, paper stock.

2. (Soap Making) A plain soap which is made into toilet soap by adding perfumery, coloring matter, etc.

Stock

Stock\ (st[o^]k), n. [AS. stocc a stock, trunk, stick; akin to D. stok, G. stock, OHG. stoc, Icel. stokkr, Sw. stock, Dan. stok, and AS. stycce a piece; cf. Skr. tuj to urge, thrust. Cf. Stokker, Stucco, and Tuck a rapier.]

1. The stem, or main body, of a tree or plant; the fixed, strong, firm part; the trunk.

Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground, yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant. --Job xiv. 8,9.

2. The stem or branch in which a graft is inserted.

The scion overruleth the stock quite. --Bacon.

3. A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.

All our fathers worshiped stocks and stones. --Milton.

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. --Fuller.

4. Hence, a person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense.

Let's be no stoics, nor no stocks. --Shak.

5. The principal supporting part; the part in which others are inserted, or to which they are attached. Specifically: (a) The wood to which the barrel, lock, etc., of a musket or like firearm are secured; also, a long, rectangular piece of wood, which is an important part of several forms of gun carriage. (b) The handle or contrivance by which bits are held in boring; a bitstock; a brace. (c) (Joinery) The block of wood or metal frame which constitutes the body of a plane, and in which the plane iron is fitted; a plane stock. (d) (Naut.) The wooden or iron crosspiece to which the shank of an anchor is attached. See Illust. of Anchor. (e) The support of the block in which an anvil is fixed, or of the anvil itself. (f) A handle or wrench forming a holder for the dies for cutting screws; a diestock. (g) The part of a tally formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness. See Counterfoil. [Eng.]

6. The original progenitor; also, the race or line of a family; the progenitor of a family and his direct descendants; lineage; family.

And stand betwixt them made, when, severally, All told their stock. --Chapman.

Thy mother was no goddess, nor thy stock From Dardanus. --Denham.

7. Money or capital which an individual or a firm employs in business; fund; in the United States, the capital of a bank or other company, in the form of transferable shares, each of a certain amount; money funded in government securities, called also the public funds; in the plural, property consisting of shares in joint-stock companies, or in the obligations of a government for its funded debt; -- so in the United States, but in England the latter only are called stocks, and the former shares.

8. (Bookkeeping) Same as Stock account, below.

9. Supply provided; store; accumulation; especially, a merchant's or manufacturer's store of goods; as, to lay in a stock of provisions.

Add to that stock which justly we bestow. --Dryden.

10. (Agric.) Domestic animals or beasts collectively, used or raised on a farm; as, a stock of cattle or of sheep, etc.; -- called also live stock.

11. (Card Playing) That portion of a pack of cards not distributed to the players at the beginning of certain games, as gleek, etc., but which might be drawn from afterward as occasion required; a bank.

I must buy the stock; send me good cardings. --Beau. & Fl.

12. A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado. [Obs.]

13. [Cf. Stocking.] A covering for the leg, or leg and foot; as, upper stocks (breeches); nether stocks (stockings). [Obs.]

With a linen stock on one leg. --Shak.

14. A kind of stiff, wide band or cravat for the neck; as, a silk stock.

15. pl. A frame of timber, with holes in which the feet, or the feet and hands, of criminals were formerly confined by way of punishment.

He shall rest in my stocks. --Piers Plowman.

16. pl. (Shipbuilding) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests while building.

17. pl. Red and gray bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings. [Eng.]

18. (Bot.) Any cruciferous plant of the genus Matthiola; as, common stock (Matthiola incana) (see Gilly-flower); ten-weeks stock (M. annua).

19. (Geol.) An irregular metalliferous mass filling a large cavity in a rock formation, as a stock of lead ore deposited in limestone.

20. A race or variety in a species.

21. (Biol.) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of persons (see Person), as trees, chains of salp[ae], etc.

22. The beater of a fulling mill. --Knight.

23. (Cookery) A liquid or jelly containing the juices and soluble parts of meat, and certain vegetables, etc., extracted by cooking; -- used in making soup, gravy, etc.

Bit stock. See Bitstock.

Dead stock (Agric.), the implements of husbandry, and produce stored up for use; -- in distinction from live stock, or the domestic animals on the farm. See def. 10, above.

Head stock. See Headstock.

Paper stock, rags and other material of which paper is made.

Stock account (Bookkeeping), an account on a merchant's ledger, one side of which shows the original capital, or stock, and the additions thereto by accumulation or contribution, the other side showing the amounts withdrawn.

Stock car, a railway car for carrying cattle.

Stock company (Com.), an incorporated company the capital of which is represented by marketable shares having a certain equal par value.

Stock duck (Zo["o]l.), the mallard.

Stock exchange. (a) The building or place where stocks are bought and sold; stock market; hence, transactions of all kinds in stocks. (b) An association or body of stockbrokers who meet and transact business by certain recognized forms, regulations, and usages. --Wharton. Brande & C.

Stock farmer, a farmer who makes it his business to rear live stock.

Stock gillyflower (Bot.), the common stock. See Stock, n., 18.

Stock gold, gold laid up so as to form a stock, or hoard.

Stock in trade, the goods kept for sale by a shopkeeper; the fittings and appliances of a workman. --Simmonds.

Stock list, a list of stocks, or shares, dealt in, of transactions, and of prices.

Stock lock, a lock inclosed in a wooden case and attached to the face of a door.

Stock market. (a) A place where stocks are bought and sold; the stock exchange. (b) A market for live stock.

Stock pigeon. (Zo["o]l.) Same as Stockdove.

Stock purse. (a) A common purse, as distinguished from a private purse. (b) (Mil.) Moneys saved out of the expenses of a company or regiment, and applied to objects of common interest. [Eng.]

Stock shave, a tool used by blockmakers.

Stock station, a place or district for rearing stock. [Australia] --W. Howitt.

Stock tackle (Naut.), a tackle used when the anchor is hoisted and secured, to keep its stock clear of the ship's sides. --Totten.

Stock taking, an examination and inventory made of goods or stock in a shop or warehouse; -- usually made periodically.

Tail stock. See Tailstock.

To have something on the stock, to be at work at something.

To take stock, to take account of stock; to make an inventory of stock or goods on hand. --Dickens.

To take stock in. (a) To subscribe for, or purchase, shares in a stock company. (b) To put faith in; to accept as trustworthy; as, to take stock in a person's fidelity. [Slang]

To take stock of, to take account of the stock of; to take an inventory of; hence, to ascertain the facts in regard to (something). [Eng.]

At the outset of any inquiry it is proper to take stock of the results obtained by previous explorers of the same field. --Leslie Stephen.

Syn: Fund; capital; store; supply; accumulation; hoard; provision.

Stock

Stock\ (st[o^]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stocked (st[o^]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Stocking.]

1. To lay up; to put aside for future use; to store, as merchandise, and the like.

2. To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply; as, to stock a warehouse, that is, to fill it with goods; to stock a farm, that is, to supply it with cattle and tools; to stock land, that is, to occupy it with a permanent growth, especially of grass.

3. To suffer to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more previous to sale, as cows.

4. To put in the stocks. [R.] --Shak.

To stock an anchor (Naut.), to fit it with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.

To stock cards (Card Playing), to arrange cards in a certain manner for cheating purposes. [Cant]

To stock down (Agric.), to sow, as plowed land, with grass seed, in order that it may become swarded, and produce grass.

To stock up, to extirpate; to dig up.

Stock

Stock\, a. Used or employed for constant service or application, as if constituting a portion of a stock or supply; standard; permanent; standing; as, a stock actor; a stock play; a stock sermon. "A stock charge against Raleigh." --C. Kingsley.

Stock company (Theater), a company of actors regularly employed at one theater, or permanently acting together in various plays under one management.
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Language Translation for : stock
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stock

A share in the ownership of a corporation.

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stock  (n.1)
O.E. stocc "stump, post, stake, tree trunk, log," also "pillory" (usually plural, stocks), from P.Gmc. *stukkaz "tree trunk" (cf. O.N. stokkr "block of wood, trunk of a tree," O.S., O.Fris. stok, M.Du. stoc "tree trunk, stump," Du. stok "stick, cane," O.H.G. stoc "tree trunk, stick," Ger. Stock "stick, cane;" also Du. stuk, Ger. Stück "piece"), from PIE *(s)teu- (see steep (adj.)). Meaning "ancestry, family" (1382) is a fig. use of the "tree trunk" sense (cf. family tree). This is also the root of the meaning "heavy part of a tool," and "part of a rifle held against the shoulder" (1541). Stock, lock, and barrel "the whole of a thing" is recorded from 1817. Meaning "framework on which a boat was constructed" (1422) led to fig. phrase on stocks "planned and commenced" (1669). Stock-still (c.1470) is lit. "as still as a tree trunk."

stock  (n.2)
"supply for future use" (1428), "sum of money" (1463), M.E. developments of stock (n.1), but the ultimate sense connection is uncertain. Perhaps the notion is of the "trunk" from which gains are an outgrowth, or obs. sense of "money-box" (c.1400). Meaning "subscribed capital of a corporation" is from 1612. Stock-broker is from 1706; stock exchange is from 1773. The verb meaning "to supply (a store) with stock" is from 1622; in stock "in the possession of a trader" is from 1618. Meaning "broth made by boiling meat or vegetables" is from 1764. Theatrical use, in ref. to a company regularly acting together at a given theater, is attested from 1761. In ref. to conversation or literature, "recurring, commonplace" (e.g. stock phrase), it is attested from 1738, on notion of "kept in store for constant use." Taking stock "making an inventory" is attested from 1736. As the collective term for the movable property of a farm, it is recorded from 1519; hence livestock (1523).
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Stock

A type of security that signifies ownership in a corporation and represents a claim on part of the corporation's assets and earnings.

There are two main types of stock: common and preferred. Common stock usually entitles the owner the right to vote at shareholder meetings and to receive dividends that the company has declared. Preferred stock generally does not have voting rights, but has a higher claim on assets and earnings than the common shares. For example, owners of preferred stock receive dividends before common shareholders and have priority in the event a company goes bankrupt and is liquidated.

Also known as shares, or equity.

Investopedia Commentary

A holder of stock (a shareholder) has a claim on a part of the corporation's assets and earnings. In other words, a shareholder is an owner of a company. Ownership is determined by the number of shares a person owns relative to the number of outstanding shares. For example, if a company has 1000 shares of stock outstanding, and one person owns 100 shares, that person would own and have claim to 10% of the company's assets.

Stocks are the foundation of nearly every portfolio, and they have historically outperformed most all other investments over the long run.

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See also: ADR, Assets, Blue Chip, Corporation, Earnings, Equity, Penny Stock, Shareholder, Shares, Stock Option

Also spelled: stocks, stoch

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stock

An ownership share or ownership shares in a corporation. See also bearer stock, common stock, preferred stock, stock class.

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Main Entry: stock
Function: noun
1 a : the equipment, materials, or supplies of a business b : a store or supply accumulated; especially : the inventory of the goods of a merchant or manufacturer
2 : the ownership element in a corporation usually divided into shares and represented by transferable certificates; also : the certificate evidencing ownership of one or more shares of stock
capital stock
1 : the stock that a corporation may issue under its charter including both common and preferred stock
2 : the outstanding shares of a joint stock company considered as an aggregate
3 : CAPITALIZATION 4
common stock
: a class of stock whose holders share in company profits (as through dividends) on a pro rata basis, may vote for directors and on important matters such as mergers, and may have limited access to information not publicly available
cumulative preferred stock
: preferred stock whose holders are entitled to the payment of cumulative dividends as well as current dividends before common stockholders are paid
growth stock
: stock issued by a growth company
margin stock
: stock that may be purchased in a margin account
no–par value stock
: stock issued with no par value which may be carried for corporate accounting purposes as part of the capital stock or as part of the capital surplus to the extent allowed by law called also no-par stock
pen·ny stock
: the stock of a small company not listed on a major exchange and traditionally selling at less than a dollar a share
preferred stock
: a class of corporate stock whose holders are guaranteed payment of dividends and a share of asset distribution before the holders of common stock but are usually denied voting rights
Treasury stock
: stock that is reacquired and held by the issuing company (as to increase the market value of traded shares)
voting stock
: stock (as common stock) entitling the holder to vote in matters of corporate governance
wa·tered stock
: stock issued with a par value greater than the value of the underlying assets
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stock   (stŏk)  Pronunciation Key 
  1. The trunk or main stem of a tree or another plant.
  2. A plant or stem onto which a graft is made.
  3. A plant or tree from which cuttings and scions are taken.

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stock

see in stock; lock, stock, and barrel; make a laughing stock of; take stock; take stock in.

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