stock
adjective
No English definition recorded for this entry.
L340804 on Wikidata ↗noun
- financial instrument
- part of a firearm
- flavoured liquid foodstuff
verb
- to store for sale
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /stɒk/ / /stɑk/
adj
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.
- Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.
“stock items”
“stock sizes”
- 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.
“He gave me a stock answer.”
name
Etymology: * As an English surname, from the noun stock (“stock, tree stump”). This sense is also found respectively in Dutch and German, and Slavic borrowings of them. Compare Stocker. * Also as an English surname, variant of Stoker. * (Stockton): Clipping of Stockton.
- A village and civil parish in Chelmsford district, Essex, England, United Kingdom (OS grid ref TQ6998).
- A surname.
“Speaking on the John Solomon Reports podcast this week, conservative activist and RiftTV contributor Sarah Stock attributed some of the divide to a generational split in how conservatives consume information.”
- Diminutive of Stockton (“personal name”).
noun
Etymology: From Italian stoccata.
- A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.
verb
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.
- To have on hand for sale.
“The store stocks all kinds of dried vegetables.”
“...he would not stock any product on his shelves from any company that hired a communist or, as it was called at the time, a comsymp.”
- To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.
“to stock a warehouse with goods”
“to stock a farm, i.e. to supply it with cattle and tools”
- To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.
- To put in the stocks as punishment.
“Poor Tom, that[…]eats cow-dung for sallets; swallows the old rat, and the ditch-dog; drinks the green mantle of the standing pool; who is whipp'd from tything to tything, and stock'd, punish'd, and imprison'd”
- 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.