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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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quantity
English
Etymology
From Middle English quantite, from Old French quantité, from Latin quantit?s (“quantity”), from quantus (“how much”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?kw?n.t?.ti/
- (General American) enPR: kw?n?(t)?t?, IPA(key): /?kw?n(t)?ti/, [?k?w?n(?)??i], [?k?w?n(t?)?t?i]
- Note: This is with a relaxed middle T, and is only used in colloquial contexts by many speakers.
- (Canada) IPA(key): /?kw?nd?di/, /?kw?n???i/
- (obsolete) IPA(key): /?kwæn.t?.ti/
Noun
quantity (countable and uncountable, plural quantities)
- A fundamental, generic term used when referring to the measurement (count, amount) of a scalar, vector, number of items or to some other way of denominating the value of a collection or group of items.
- An indefinite amount of something.
- Some soap making oils are best as base oils, used in a larger quantity in the soap, while other oils are best added in a small quantity.
- A specific measured amount.
- A considerable measure or amount.
- (metrology) Property of a phenomenon, body, or substance, where the property has a magnitude that can be expressed as number and a reference.
- (mathematics) Indicates that the entire preceding expression is henceforth considered a single object.
- 2006, Jerome E. Kaufmann and Karen Schwitters, Elementary and Intermediate Algebra: A Combined Approach, p 89
- For problems 58-67, translate each word phrase into an algebraic expression. […] 65. x plus 9, the quantity squared
- 2005, R. Mark Sirkin, Statistics For The Social Sciences, p137
- The second, , read "summation of x, quantity squared," tells us to first add up all the xs to get and then square to get .
- 1985, Serge Lang, Math!: Encounters with High School Students, p54
- ANN. quantity cubed.
- SERGE LANG. That's right, .
- 2006, Jerome E. Kaufmann and Karen Schwitters, Elementary and Intermediate Algebra: A Combined Approach, p 89
Usage notes
- In mathematics, used to unambiguously orate mathematical equations; it is extremely rare in print, since there is no need for it there.
Synonyms
- Qty
Derived terms
- unknown quantity
Related terms
Translations
See also
- measure
- unit
Further reading
- quantity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- quantity in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- quantity at OneLook Dictionary Search
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