单词 | stock |
释义 | stock/stɒk![]() noun 1 [mass noun] The goods or merchandise kept on the premises of a shop or warehouse and available for sale or distribution: the store has a very low turnover of stock [count noun]: buy now, while stocks last! [as modifier]: stock shortages...
Synonyms merchandise, goods, wares, items/articles for sale, commodities rare vendibles 1.1A supply or quantity of something accumulated or available for future use: I need to replenish my stock of wine [count noun]: fish stocks are being dangerously depleted...
Synonyms store, supply, stockpile, reserve, hoard, cache, reservoir, accumulation, quantity, pile, heap, load; fund, bank, pool, mine, repertoire, repertory, inventory; collection, selection, assortment, variety, range rare amassment 1.2Farm animals such as cattle, pigs, and sheep, bred and kept for their meat or milk; livestock: all the stock were housed and fed in sheds the sale of dairy stock...
Synonyms livestock, farm animals, cattle, beasts; cows, sheep, pigs, horses, oxen, goats; flocks, herds 1.3 short for rolling stock.The railways are a shambles - Railtrack's stock was declared near worthless in the City this week....
Synonyms rolling stock, trains, locomotives, carriages, wagons; machinery, equipment, apparatus, appliances, implements 1.4 (also film stock) Photographic film that has not been exposed or processed.It is the technological body - the film camera, film stock, photographic camera and computer - that make possible this frenzy of the visible....
1.5(In some card games) the cards that have not yet been dealt, left on the table to be drawn.The remaining stock of undealt cards is put face down on the table to form the talon....
2 [mass noun] The capital raised by a company or corporation through the issue and subscription of shares: between 1982 and 1986 the value of the company’s stock rose by 86%...
Synonyms capital, funds, assets, property 2.1 (usually stocks) A portion of a company’s stock as held by an individual or group as an investment: she owned £3000 worth of stocks and shares...
2.2 (usually stocks) The shares of a particular company, type of company, or industry: blue-chip stocks...
Synonyms investments, shares, holdings, securities, equities, bonds; portfolio 2.3 (also government stock) (In the UK) securities issued by the government in fixed units with a fixed rate of interest: government gilt-edged stock...
2.4A person’s reputation or popularity: I felt I was right, but my stock was low with this establishment...
Synonyms reputation, standing, status, repute, position 3 [mass noun] Liquid made by cooking bones, meat, fish, or vegetables slowly in water, used as a basis for the preparation of soup, gravy, or sauces: a pint of chicken stock...
Synonyms broth; French bouillon 3.1 [with modifier] The raw material from which a specified commodity can be manufactured: the fat can be used as soap stock...
4 [mass noun, usually with adjective or noun modifier] A person’s ancestry or line of descent: her mother was of French stock...
Synonyms descent, ancestry, origin(s), parentage, pedigree, lineage, line, line of descent, heritage, birth, extraction, background, family, blood, bloodline, genealogy, beginnings rare filiation, stirps 4.1A breed, variety, or population of an animal or plant: the vineyards were ploughed up and replanted using different vine stock [count noun]: geographically separate stocks of some species are recognized...
5The trunk or woody stem of a living tree or shrub, especially one into which a graft (scion) is inserted.Many of the modern roses in commerce today are grafted onto these stocks....
Synonyms trunk, tree trunk, stem, stalk technical caudex 5.1The perennial part of a herbaceous plant, especially a rhizome.The role of the underground metameric complex in the source-sink system of perennial rhizome-forming cereals is determined by a significant proportion of rhizomes in plant biomass (3050%), formation of a large amount of meristems in the underground stock of vegetative reproduction (more than 1000 per plant), a comparatively high respiration rate (1.5 mg CO2/(g dry wt h)), and a high nitrogen content (3.5%). 6A herbaceous European plant that is cultivated for its fragrant lilac, pink, or white flowers. Mid 17th century: from stock-gillyflower
7 (the stocks) [treated as singular or plural] historical An instrument of punishment consisting of an adjustable wooden structure with holes for securing a person’s feet and hands, in which criminals were locked and exposed to public ridicule or assault.Every confinement of the person is an imprisonment, whether it be in a common prison, or in a private house, or in the stocks, or even by forcibly detaining one in the public streets....
8The part of a rifle or other firearm to which the barrel and firing mechanism are attached, held against one’s shoulder when firing the gun.It halved the rifle where the stock joined the barrel, and two fingers from the weasel's right paw fell to the forest floor....
Synonyms handle, butt, haft, grip, shaft, shank, helve 8.1The crossbar of an anchor.Because the mushroom anchor has no projecting stock or flukes to foul, the moored object can swing freely around a mushroom anchor. 8.2The handle of something such as a whip or fishing rod.The silky voice became a bark as he fingered the stock of a whip lying across his knees. 8.3 short for headstock (sense 1).The tool was lacquered after assembly, no coating being present between the side piece and the stock. 8.4 short for tailstock.The stock is revolved, as in the first case, by means of a cord in the hands of an assistant. 9A band of white material tied like a cravat and worn as a part of formal horse-riding dress.He wore a stock which had been the last word of fashion at the time of the July revolution. 9.1A piece of black material worn under a clerical collar.The chess-board was brought out, and Mr. Elliot, who wore a stock instead of a collar as a sign of convalescence, but was otherwise much as usual, challenged Mr. Pepper to a final contest. 10 (stocks) A frame used to support a ship or boat out of water, especially when under construction.After bracing the bulkheads to the stocks, the longitudinal framing can start going on. adjective [attributive] 1(Of a product or type of product) usually kept in stock and thus regularly available for sale: 25 per cent off stock items...
2(Of a phrase or expression) so regularly used as to be automatic or hackneyed: she faltered momentarily and then resorted to the teenager’s favourite stock response ‘whatever’...
2.1Denoting a conventional character type or situation that recurs in a particular genre of literature, theatre, or film: the stock characters in every cowboy film...
Synonyms usual, routine, predictable, set, standard, staple, customary, familiar, conventional, traditional, stereotyped, clichéd, hackneyed, unoriginal, derivative, formulaic, ready-made, well worn, overused, overworked, worn out, banal, trite, platitudinous, tired, run-of-the-mill, commonplace informal corny, old hat, hacky 2.2Denoting or relating to cinematic footage that can be regularly used in different productions, typically that of outdoor scenes used to add realism to a production shot in an indoor set.Giant avalanches, tidal waves, and many stock footage scenes of buildings collapsing result....
verb [with object] 1Have or keep a supply of (a particular product or type or product) available for sale: most supermarkets now stock a range of organic produce...
Synonyms sell, market; supply, keep, keep in stock, have, have for sale, carry, handle; offer, provide; trade in, deal in 1.1Provide or fill with goods, items, or a supply of something: I must stock up the fridge (as adjective, with submodifier or in combination stocked) a well-stocked shop...
Synonyms supply, provide, equip, furnish, provision 1.2 [no object] (stock up) Amass supplies of something, typically for a particular occasion or purpose: I’m stocking up for Christmas you’d better stock up with fuel...
Synonyms fill, fill up, load, restock, replenish amass supplies of, obtain a store of, buy up, stockpile, lay in, put away, put aside, put down, store up, collect, gather, accumulate, hoard, cache informal squirrel away, salt away, stash away 2Fit (a rifle or other firearm) with a stock: it was a fine gun which he forged, stocked, and completed himself...
Phrasesin (or out of) stock on the stocks put stock in stock and station take stock Derivativesstockless
OriginOld English stoc(c) 'trunk, block of wood, post', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch stok and German Stock 'stick'. The notion 'store, fund' (sense 1 of the noun and sense 2 of the noun) arose in late Middle English and is of obscure origin, perhaps expressing ‘growth from a central stem’ or ‘firm foundation’. Rhymes |
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