Definition of stock

Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of stock is as below...

Stock (n.) A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.

Lern More About Stock

Whipstalk :: Whipstalk (n.) A whipstock.
Insition :: Insition (n.) The insertion of a scion in a stock; ingraftment.
Understock :: Understock (v. t.) To supply insufficiently with stock.
Overstore :: Overstore (v. t.) To overstock.
Penstock :: Penstock (n.) A close conduit or pipe for conducting water, as, to a water wheel, or for emptying a pond, or for domestic uses..
Descend :: Descend (v. i.) To come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation or by transmission; to fall or pass by inheritance; as, the beggar may descend from a prince; a crown descends to the heir..
Bluestockingism :: Bluestockingism (n.) The character or manner of a bluestocking; female pedantry.
Trail :: Trail (n.) That part of the stock of a gun carriage which rests on the ground when the piece is unlimbered. See Illust. of Gun carriage, under Gun..
Fireman :: Fireman (n.) A man who tends the fires, as of a steam engine; a stocker..
Rente :: Rente (n.) In France, interest payable by government on indebtedness; the bonds, shares, stocks, etc., which represent government indebtedness..
Race :: Race (n.) The descendants of a common ancestor; a family, tribe, people, or nation, believed or presumed to belong to the same stock; a lineage; a breed..
Overstocked :: Overstocked (imp. & p. p.) of Overstoc.
Company :: Company (n.) An association of persons for the purpose of carrying on some enterprise or business; a corporation; a firm; as, the East India Company; an insurance company; a joint-stock company..
Fund :: Fund (v. t.) To put into the form of bonds or stocks bearing regular interest; as, to fund the floating debt..
Longbow :: Longbow (n.) The ordinary bow, not mounted on a stock; -- so called in distinction from the crossbow when both were used as weapons of war. Also, sometimes, such a bow of about the height of a man, as distinguished from a much shorter one..
Titling :: Titling (n.) Stockfish; -- formerly so called in customhouses.
Ball :: Ball (n.) A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; -- formerly used by printers for inking the form, but now superseded by the roller..
Stirpes :: Stirpiculture (n.) The breeding of special stocks or races.
Idorgan :: Idorgan (n.) A morphological unit, consisting of two or more plastids, which does not possess the positive character of the person or stock, in distinction from the physiological organ or biorgan. See Morphon..
Hand :: Hand (n.) The small part of a gunstock near the lock, which is grasped by the hand in taking aim..
Random Fonts
Most Popular

close
Privacy Policy   GDPR Policy   Terms & Conditions   Contact Us