| 单词 | stock |
| 释义 | stock n., adj., & v. --n 1. a store of goods etc. ready for sale or distribution etc. 2. a supply or quantity of anything for use (lay in winter stocks of fuel; a great stock of information). 3. equipment or raw material for manufacture or trade etc. (rolling-stock; paper stock). 4. a farm animals or equipment. b = FATSTOCK. 5. a the capital of a business company. b shares in this. 6. one's reputation or popularity (his stock is rising). 7. a money lent to a government at fixed interest. b the right to receive such interest. 8. a line of ancestry; family origins (comes of Cornish stock). 9. liquid made by stewing bones, vegetables, fish, etc., as a basis for soup, gravy, sauce, etc. 10. any of various fragrant-flowered cruciferous plants of the genus Matthiola or Malcolmia (orig. stock-gillyflower, so-called because it had a stronger stem than the clove gillyflower). 11. a plant into which a graft is inserted. 12. the main trunk of a tree etc. 13. (in pl.) hist. a timber frame with holes for the feet and occas. the hands and head, in which offenders were locked as a public punishment. 14. US a = stock company. b the repertory of this. 15. a a base or support or handle for an implement or machine. b the crossbar of an anchor. 16. the butt of a rifle etc. 17. a = HEADSTOCK. b = TAILSTOCK. 18. (in pl.) the supports for a ship during building. 19. a band of material worn round the neck esp. in horse-riding or below a clerical collar. 20. hard solid brick pressed in a mould. --adj 1. kept in stock and so regularly available (stock sizes). 2. perpetually repeated; hackneyed, conventional (a stock answer). --vtr. 1. have or keep (goods) in stock. 2. a provide (a shop or a farm etc.) with goods, equipment, or livestock. b fill with items needed (shelves well-stocked with books). 3. fit (a gun etc.) with a stock. Phrases and idioms in stock available immediately for sale etc. on the stocks in construction or preparation. out of stock not immediately available for sale. stock-book a book showing amounts of goods acquired and disposed of. stock-car 1. a specially strengthened production car for use in racing in which collision occurs. 2. US a railway truck for transporting livestock. stock company US a repertory company performing mainly at a particular theatre. stock dove a European wild pigeon, Columba oenas, with a shorter tail and squarer head than a wood pigeon and breeding in tree-trunks. Stock Exchange 1. a place where stocks and shares are bought and sold. 2. the dealers working there. stock-in-trade 1. all the requisites of a trade or profession. 2. a ready supply of characteristic phrases, attitudes, etc. stock market 1. = Stock Exchange. 2. transactions on this. stock-still motionless. stock up 1. provide with or get stocks or supplies. 2. (foll. by with) get in or gather a stock of (food, fuel, etc.). take stock 1. make an inventory of one's stock. 2. (often foll. by of) make a review or estimate of (a situation etc.). 3. (foll. by in) concern oneself with. Derivatives stocker n. stockless adj. Etymology: OE stoc, stocc f. Gmc |
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