Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word stock. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in stock.
Definitions and meaning of stock
stock
Pronunciation
(UK) enPR: stŏk, IPA(key): /stɒk/
(US) enPR: stäk, IPA(key): /stɑk/
Rhymes: -ɒk
Homophones: stalk(cot-caught merger), stark(non-rhotic with father-bother merger)
Etymology 1
From Old Englishstocc, from Proto-West Germanic*stokk, 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, pluralstocksor(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.
(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 of a company on the stock market.
(especially US) A share in a company.
(figurative) The measure of how highly a person or institution is valued.
Synonym:reputation
Any of several types of security that are similar to a stock, or marketed like one.
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.
(by extension) Lineage, family, ancestry.
(linguistics) A larger grouping of language families: a superfamily or macrofamily.
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.
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 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.
(by extension, obsolete) A person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense.
(UK, 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.
(UK, 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.
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
Descendants
→ Dutch: stock
→ French: stock
→ Romanian: stoc
→ Turkish: stok
→ Italian: stock
→ Portuguese: estoque
→ Spanish: stock
Translations
Verb
stock (third-person singular simple presentstocks, present participlestocking, simple past and past participlestocked)
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.
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
stock (not comparable)
Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.
stock items
stock sizes
(motor 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.
He gave me a stock answer.
Translations
See also
DJIA
foodstock
Etymology 2
From Italianstoccata.
Noun
stock (pluralstocks)
A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.
Anagrams
'tocks, tocks
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Englishstock.
Pronunciation
Noun
stockm (pluralstocks, diminutivestockjen)
stock, goods in supply
basic capital
shares (equity)
Derived terms
stockdividendn
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 Englishstock.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /stɔk/
Noun
stockm (pluralstocks)
stock, goods in supply
stock, a reserve (generally)
Supply of (wild) fish available for commerce, stock
Derived terms
en rupture de stock
stocker
stockage
Descendants
→ Romanian: stoc
→ Turkish: stok
Further reading
“stock”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Englishstock.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈstɔk/
Rhymes: -ɔk
Hyphenation: stòck
Noun
stock
stock, goods in supply, inventory
References
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Englishstock.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /esˈtok/[esˈt̪ok]
Rhymes: -ok
Noun
stockm (pluralstocks)
stock, inventory
Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Further reading
“stock”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedishstokker, from Old Norsestokkr, from Proto-Germanic*stukkaz(“tree-trunk”).
Noun
stockc
a log (trunk of a dead tree)
a stock (of a gun)
(in some compounds) a thick (wooden) object
a pack of snus, usually ten, wrapped in plastic film or packed in a light cardboard box
Synonyms:rulle, limpa
(historical) pillory (instrument of punishment)
Declension
Related terms
ekstock
stocka
stockeld
Stockholm
stockning
timmerstock
See also
balk
bjälke
flottning
stam
stuga
timmer
virke
Further reading
stock in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
stock in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)