different between species vs stock

English

Etymology

From Latin speci?s (“appearance; quality”), from speci? (“see”) + -i?s suffix signifying abstract noun. Doublet of spice

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?spi??i?z/, /?spi?si?z/. Some speakers pronounce the singular with -?z, the plural with -i?z.

Noun

species (plural species or (rare, nonstandard) specieses)

1. Type or kind. (Compare race.)
   • 1871, Richard Holt Hutton, Essays, Theological and Literary

     What is called spiritualism should, I think, be called a mental species of materialism.
   1. A group of plants or animals having similar appearance.
   2. (biology, taxonomy) A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below genus; a taxon at that rank.
      • 1859, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species:

        Hence, in determining whether a form should be ranked as a species or a variety, the opinion of naturalists having sound judgment and wide experience seems the only guide to follow.
   3. (chemistry, physics) A particular type of atom, molecule, ion or other particle.
   4. (mineralogy) A mineral with a unique chemical formula whose crystals belong to a unique crystallographic system.
2. An image, an appearance, a spectacle.
   1. (obsolete) The image of something cast on a surface, or reflected from a surface, or refracted through a lens or telescope; a reflection.

   2. Visible or perceptible presentation; appearance; something perceived.

      • Wit, […] the faculty of imagination in the writer, which searches over all the memory for the species or ideas of those things which it designs to represent.

      • the species of the letters illuminated with indigo and violet

   3. A public spectacle or exhibition.

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3. (Christianity) Either of the two elements of the Eucharist after they have been consecrated.
4. Coin, or coined silver, gold, or other metal, used as a circulating medium; specie.
   • 1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures

     There was, in the splendour of the Roman empire, a less quantity of current species in Europe than there is now.

5. A component part of compound medicine; a simple.
6. An officinal mixture or compound powder of any kind; especially, one used for making an aromatic tea or tisane; a tea mixture.

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Usage notes

• species is its own plural; specie is a separate word that means coin money.
• (biology, taxonomy): See species name, binomial nomenclature.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• race
• (taxonomy, rank):
  • domain
  • kingdom
  • phylum/division
  • class
  • order
  • family
  • genus
  • superspecies
  • species
    • subspecies, form
    • (botany, horticulture): variety, cultivar

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “species”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

Noun

species

1. plural of specie

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

species

1. Plural form of specie

Synonyms

• speciën

Latin

Etymology

From speci? (“see”) + -i?s suffix signifying abstract noun.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?spe.ki.e?s/, [?s?p?kie?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?spe.t??i.es/, [?sp??t??i?s]

Noun

speci?s f (genitive speci??); fifth declension

1. a seeing, view, look
2. a spectacle, sight
3. external appearance, looks; general outline or shape
4. semblance, pretence, pretext, outward show
5. show, display
6. (figuratively) vision, dream, apparition
7. (figuratively) honor, reputation
8. (figuratively) a kind, quality, type
9. (law, later) a special case

Declension

Fifth-declension noun.

Derived terms

• speci?tim

Descendants

References

• species in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• species in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• species in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: st?k, IPA^(key): /st?k/
• (US) enPR: stäk, IPA^(key): /st?k/
• Rhymes: -?k
• Homophone: stalk (in accents with the cot-caught merger)

Etymology 1

From Old English stocc, 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 (“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.

Noun

stock (countable and uncountable, plural stocks or (obsolete) stocken)

1. A store or supply.
   1. (operations) A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.

   2. A supply of anything ready for use.

   3. Railroad rolling stock.
   4. (card games, in a card game) A stack of undealt cards made available to the players.
   5. Farm or ranch animals; livestock.
   6. The population of a given type of animal (especially fish) available to be captured from the wild for economic use.
2. (finance) The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares. The total of shares held by an individual shareholder.
   1. The price or value of the stock for a company on the stock market.

   2. (figuratively) The measure of how highly a person or institution is valued.

   3. Any of several types of security that are similar to a stock, or marketed like one.
3. The raw material from which things are made; feedstock.
   1. (cooking, uncountable, countable) Broth made from meat (originally bones) or vegetables, used as a basis for stew or soup.
   2. The type of paper used in printing.

   3. Ellipsis of film stock
   4. Plain soap before it is coloured and perfumed.
4. Stock theater, summer stock theater.
5. The trunk and woody main stems of a tree. The base from which something grows or branches.
   1. (horticulture) The plant upon which the scion is grafted.
   2. lineage, family, ancestry.
      1. (linguistics) A larger grouping of language families: a superfamily or macrofamily.
6. Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.
7. A handle or stem to which the working part of an implement or weapon is attached.
   1. (firearms) The part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shooter's shoulder.
   2. The handle of a whip, fishing rod, etc.
8. Part of a machine that supports items or holds them in place.
   1. The headstock of a lathe, drill, etc.
   2. The tailstock of a lathe.
9. A bar, stick or rod.
   1. A ski pole.
   2. (nautical) A bar going through an anchor, perpendicular to the flukes.
   3. (nautical) The axle attached to the rudder, which transfers the movement of the helm to the rudder.
   4. (geology) A pipe (vertical cylinder of ore)
10. A type of (now formal or official) neckwear.
    1. 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.
    2. A piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar.
11. A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle
12. (folklore) A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical beings.
13. (obsolete) A cover for the legs; a stocking.
14. A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
    • 1655, Thomas Fuller, The History of Waltham Abbey

      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.

15. (by extension, obsolete) A person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense.
16. (Britain, historical) 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.
17. (shipbuilding, in the plural) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.
18. (Britain, in the plural) Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
19. (biology) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
20. The beater of a fulling mill.

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Synonyms

• (farm or ranch animals): livestock
• (railroad equipment): rolling stock
• (raw material): feedstock
• (paper for printing): card stock
• (plant used in grafting): rootstock, understock
• (axle attached to rudder): rudder stock
• (wide necktie): stock-tie

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

stock (third-person singular simple present stocks, present participle stocking, simple past and past participle stocked)

1. To have on hand for sale.

2. To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.

3. To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.
4. To put in the stocks as punishment.
5. (nautical) To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.
6. (card games, dated) To arrange cards in a certain manner for cheating purposes; to stack the deck.

Translations

Adjective

stock (not comparable)

1. Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.

   stock items

   stock sizes

2. (racing, of a race car) Having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having been modified from such a car.
3. Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic.

   That band is quite stock

   He gave me a stock answer

Translations

See also

• DJIA
• foodstock

Etymology 2

From Italian stoccata.

Noun

stock (plural stocks)

1. A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.

Anagrams

• 'tocks, tocks

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English stock.

Pronunciation

Noun

stock m (plural stocks, diminutive stockje n)

1. stock, goods in supply
2. basic capital
3. shares (equity)

Derived terms

• stockdividend n

References

• M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English stock.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st?k/

Noun

stock m (plural stocks)

1. stock, goods in supply
2. stock, a reserve (generally)
3. Supply of (wild) fish available for commerce, stock

Derived terms

• stocker
• stockage

Further reading

• “stock” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English stock.

Noun

stock

1. stock, goods in supply, inventory

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English stock.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /es?to?/, [es?t?o??]

Noun

stock m (plural stocks)

1. stock, inventory

Further reading

• “stock” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish stokker, from Old Norse stokkr, from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz (“tree-trunk”).

Noun

stock c

1. a log (trunk of a dead tree)
2. a stock (of a gun)
3. a pack of snus, usually ten, wrapped in plastic film or packed in a light cardboard box

   Synonyms: rulle, limpa

Declension

Related terms

• ekstock
• stocka
• stockeld
• Stockholm
• stockning
• timmerstock

See also

• balk
• bjälke
• flottning
• stam
• stuga
• timmer
• virke