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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

English

Alternative forms

• breede (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English breden, from Old English br?dan, from Proto-Germanic *br?dijan? (“to brood”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?reh?- (“warm”). Cognate with Scots brede, breid, Saterland Frisian briede, West Frisian briede, Dutch broeden, German Low German bröden, German brüten.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?i?d/
• Rhymes: -i?d

Verb

breed (third-person singular simple present breeds, present participle breeding, simple past and past participle bred)

1. To produce offspring sexually; to bear young.
2. (transitive) To give birth to; to be the native place of.

   a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men
3. Of animals, to mate.
4. To keep animals and have them reproduce in a way that improves the next generation’s qualities.
5. To arrange the mating of specific animals.

6. To propagate or grow plants trying to give them certain qualities.

7. To take care of in infancy and through childhood; to bring up.
   • 1859, Edward Everett, An Oration on the Occasion of the Dedication of the Statue of Mr. Webster

     born and bred on the verge of the wilderness

8. To yield or result in.
   • 1634, John Milton, Comus

     Lest the place / And my quaint habits breed astonishment.

9. (obsolete, intransitive) To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, like young before birth.
10. (sometimes as breed up) To educate; to instruct; to bring up
    • 1724-1734', Bishop Burnet, History of My Own Time

      No care was taken to breed him a Protestant.

    • His farm may not […] remove his children too far from him, or the trade he breeds them up in.

11. To produce or obtain by any natural process.

    • Children would breed their teeth with much less danger.

12. (intransitive) To have birth; to be produced, developed or multiplied.
    • 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act III Scene 1

      Fair encounter

      Of two most rare affections! Heavens rain grace

      On that which breed between 'em!

13. (transitive) to ejaculate inside someone's ass
    • 2018, Cassandra Dee, Paying My Boyfriend's Debt: A Billionaire Bad Boy Romance, Cassandra Dee Romance via PublishDrive

      “God, I love your ass,” he says, his voice almost a growl. “I'm gonna breed this ass tonight.”

    • 2015, David Holly, The Heart's Eternal Desire, Bold Strokes Books Inc (?ISBN)

      “ Yes,” I said. “You want to fuck me, and I submit to you. My body is yours. Stuff me. Fill me. Breed my ass. Seed me, my love.

    • year unknown, Tymber Dalton, Disorder in the House [Suncoast Society], Siren-BookStrand (?ISBN), page 32:

      “Then...you get...bred.”

    • 2017, Casper Graham, Same Script, Different Cast [Scripts & Lyrics Trilogy], Siren-BookStrand (?ISBN), page 41:

      “I can't...can't last, baby.” / “I don't care. Come inside me. Breed me.”

    • 2017, Casper Graham, Nothing Short of a Miracle [Scripts & Lyrics Trilogy], Siren-BookStrand (?ISBN), page 19:

      "Are you clean?" he asked. / "Yeah, I get tested recently." / "Perfect. Breed me.”

Synonyms

• (take care of in infancy and through childhood): raise, bring up, rear

Derived terms

Related terms

• breed in the bone

Translations

Noun

breed (plural breeds)

1. All animals or plants of the same species or subspecies.

   a breed of tulip

   a breed of animal

2. A race or lineage; offspring or issue.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 12:

     And nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make defence

     Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence.

3. (informal) A group of people with shared characteristics.

   People who were taught classical Greek and Latin at school are a dying breed.

Translations

Anagrams

• berde, brede, rebed

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch breed, from Middle Dutch brêet, from Old Dutch *br?d, from Proto-West Germanic *braid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /br???t/, [bre?t]

Adjective

breed (attributive breë, comparative breër, superlative breedste)

1. broad

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch brêet, from Old Dutch *br?d, from Proto-West Germanic *braid, from Proto-Germanic *braidaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bre?t/, [bre?t]
• Hyphenation: breed
• Rhymes: -e?t

Adjective

breed (comparative breder, superlative breedst)

1. broad, wide

   Antonyms: nauw, smal

Inflection

Derived terms

• breedband
• breedbeeld
• breeddoek
• breedgebouwd
• breedgerand
• breedgeschouderd
• breedgetakt
• breedgetakt
• breedspraak
• breedte
• breedvoerig
• hemelsbreed
• kamerbreed
• verbreden

Descendants

• Afrikaans: breed
• ? West Frisian: breed

Anagrams

• brede

West Frisian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch breed, displacing older brie.

Adjective

breed

1. broad, wide

Inflection

Derived terms

• breedteken

Further reading

• “breed”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English bred, from Old English br?ad, from Proto-Germanic *braud?. Cognates include English bread and Scots breid.

Noun

breed

1. bread

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN