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stock
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)
- A store or supply.
- (operations) A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.
- A supply of anything ready for use.
- Railroad rolling stock.
- (card games, in a card game) A stack of undealt cards made available to the players.
- Farm or ranch animals; livestock.
- The population of a given type of animal (especially fish) available to be captured from the wild for economic use.
- (operations) A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.
- (finance) The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares. The total of shares held by an individual shareholder.
- The price or value of the stock for a company on the stock market.
- (figuratively) The measure of how highly a person or institution is valued.
- Any of several types of security that are similar to a stock, or marketed like one.
- The price or value of the stock for a company on the stock market.
- The raw material from which things are made; feedstock.
- (cooking, uncountable, countable) Broth made from meat (originally bones) or vegetables, used as a basis for stew or soup.
- The type of paper used in printing.
- Ellipsis of film stock
- Plain soap before it is coloured and perfumed.
- Stock theater, summer stock theater.
- The trunk and woody main stems of a tree. The base from which something grows or branches.
- (horticulture) The plant upon which the scion is grafted.
- lineage, family, ancestry.
- (linguistics) A larger grouping of language families: a superfamily or macrofamily.
- (horticulture) The plant upon which the scion is grafted.
- Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.
- A handle or stem to which the working part of an implement or weapon is attached.
- (firearms) The part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shooter's shoulder.
- The handle of a whip, fishing rod, etc.
- (firearms) The part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shooter's shoulder.
- Part of a machine that supports items or holds them in place.
- The headstock of a lathe, drill, etc.
- The tailstock of a lathe.
- A bar, stick or rod.
- A ski pole.
- (nautical) A bar going through an anchor, perpendicular to the flukes.
- (nautical) The axle attached to the rudder, which transfers the movement of the helm to the rudder.
- (geology) A pipe (vertical cylinder of ore)
- A type of (now formal or official) neckwear.
- 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.
- A piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar.
- 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.
- A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle
- (folklore) A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical beings.
- (obsolete) A cover for the legs; a stocking.
- 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.
- 1655, Thomas Fuller, The History of Waltham Abbey
- (by extension, obsolete) A person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense.
- (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.
- (shipbuilding, in the plural) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.
- (Britain, in the plural) Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
- (biology) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
- The beater of a fulling mill.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
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)
- To have on hand for sale.
- To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.
- To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.
- To put in the stocks as punishment.
- (nautical) To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.
- (card games, dated) To arrange cards in a certain manner for cheating purposes; to stack the deck.
Translations
Adjective
stock (not comparable)
- Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.
- stock items
- stock sizes
- (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.
- 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)
- 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)
- stock, goods in supply
- basic capital
- 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)
- stock, goods in supply
- stock, a reserve (generally)
- 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
- stock, goods in supply, inventory
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English stock.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /es?to?/, [es?t?o??]
Noun
stock m (plural stocks)
- 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
- a log (trunk of a dead tree)
- a stock (of a gun)
- 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
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pile
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pa?l/
- Rhymes: -a?l
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Middle French pile, pille, from Latin p?la (“pillar, pier”).
Noun
pile (plural piles)
- A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
- (figuratively, informal) A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.
- A mass formed in layers.
- A funeral pile; a pyre.
- (slang) A large amount of money.
- Synonyms: bundle, (both informal) mint, (colloquial) small fortune
- A large building, or mass of buildings.
- 1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy, II.2:
- The pile is of a gloomy and massive, rather than of an elegant, style of Gothic architecture […]
- 1697, John Dryden, The Aeneid
- The pile o'erlooked the town and drew the fight.
- 1892, Thomas Hardy, The Well-Beloved
- It was dark when the four-wheeled cab wherein he had brought Avice from the station stood at the entrance to the pile of flats of which Pierston occupied one floor […]
- 1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy, II.2:
- A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a fagot.
- A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals (especially copper and zinc), laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; a voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.
- (architecture, civil engineering) A beam, pole, or pillar, driven completely into the ground.
- Hyponyms: friction pile, bearing pile, end bearing pile
- Coordinate terms: pile driver, pile foundation
- An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.
- (obsolete) The reverse (or tails) of a coin.
- (figuratively) A list or league
- Watch Harlequins train and you get some idea of why they are back on top of the pile going into Saturday's rerun of last season's grand final against Leicester.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:lot
Translations
Verb
pile (third-person singular simple present piles, present participle piling, simple past and past participle piled)
- (transitive, often used with the preposition "up") To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate
- (transitive) To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
- (transitive) To add something to a great number.
- (transitive) (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
- (transitive, military) To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright, supporting each other.
Synonyms
- (lay or throw into a pile): heap, pile up; see also Thesaurus:pile up
Translations
Related terms
Etymology 2
From Old English p?l, from Latin p?lum (“heavy javelin”). Cognate with Dutch pijl, German Pfeil. Doublet of pilum.
Noun
pile (plural piles)
- (obsolete) A dart; an arrow.
- The head of an arrow or spear.
- A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.
- (heraldry) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
pile (third-person singular simple present piles, present participle piling, simple past and past participle piled)
- (transitive) To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
Translations
Etymology 3
Apparently from Late Latin pilus.
Noun
pile (plural piles)
- (usually in the plural) A hemorrhoid.
Translations
Etymology 4
From Middle English pile, partly from Anglo-Norman pil (a variant of peil, poil (“hair”)) and partly from its source, Latin pilus (“hair”). Doublet of pilus.
Noun
pile (countable and uncountable, plural piles)
- Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.)
- The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.
- 1785, William Cowper, The Task
- Velvet soft, or plush with shaggy pile.
- 1785, William Cowper, The Task
Translations
Verb
pile (third-person singular simple present piles, present participle piling, simple past and past participle piled)
- (transitive) To give a pile to; to make shaggy.
Anagrams
- Lipe, Peil, Piel, plie, plié
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pi?l?/, [?p?i?l?]
Noun
pile c
- indefinite plural of pil
French
Etymology
From Old French, from Latin p?la (through Italian pila for the “battery” sense). The “tail of a coin” sense is probably derived from previous senses, but it's not known for sure.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pil/
Noun
pile f (plural piles)
- heap, stack
- pillar
- battery
- tails
- (heraldry) pile
Derived terms
- pile ou face
Descendants
- ? Haitian Creole: anpil
- ? Khmer: ??? (p?l)
- ? Malagasy: pila
- ? Rade: pil
- ? Turkish: pil
- ? Vietnamese: pin
Adverb
pile
- (colloquial) just, exactly
- (colloquial) dead (of stopping etc.); on the dot, sharp (of time), smack
Derived terms
- pile-poil
Further reading
- “pile” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- plie, plié
Friulian
Etymology 1
From Latin p?la (“mortar”).
Noun
pile f (plural pilis)
- basin
- mortar (vessel used to grind things)
Synonyms
- (basin): vâs
- (mortar): mortâr
Etymology 2
From Latin p?la (“pillar”).
Noun
pile f (plural pilis)
- pile (architecture)
Italian
Noun
pile m (invariable)
- fleece (all senses)
Noun
pile f
- plural of pila
Anagrams
- peli
Latin
Noun
pile
- vocative singular of pilus
Latvian
Noun
pile f (5th declension)
- drip
- dribble (a small amount of a liquid)
- drop
Declension
Lower Sorbian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p?il?/, [?p?il?]
Noun
pile
- inflection of pi?a:
- dative/locative singular
- nominative/accusative dual
Middle English
Noun
pile
- Alternative form of pilwe
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p?i.l?/
Noun
pile f
- dative/locative singular of pi?a
Portuguese
Verb
pile
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of pilar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of pilar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of pilar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of pilar
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *pil? (“chick”); but also a *piskl? is reconstructed related to *piskati (“to utter shrilly”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pîle/
- Hyphenation: pi?le
Noun
p?le n (Cyrillic spelling ?????)
- chick
Declension
See also
- kokoš
- pijevac / pevac
- pile?i gulaš
Verb
pile (Cyrillic spelling ????)
- third-person plural present of piliti
Spanish
Verb
pile
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of pilar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of pilar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of pilar.
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