Stock vs. Stalk

Stocknoun

A store or supply.

Stocknoun

(operations) A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.

Stocknoun

A supply of anything ready for use.

Stocknoun

Railroad rolling stock.

Stocknoun

A stack of undealt cards made available to the players.

Stocknoun

Farm or ranch animals; livestock.

Stocknoun

The population of a given type of animal (especially fish) available to be captured from the wild for economic use.

Stocknoun

(finance) The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares. The total of shares held by an individual shareholder.

Stocknoun

The price or value of the stock for a company on the stock market.

Stocknoun

(figurative) The measure of how highly a person or institution is valued.

Stocknoun

Any of several types of security that are similar to a stock, or marketed like one.

Stocknoun

The raw material from which things are made; feedstock.

Stocknoun

Broth made from meat (originally bones) or vegetables, used as a basis for stew or soup.

Stocknoun

The type of paper used in printing.

Stocknoun

Undeveloped film; film stock.

Stocknoun

Plain soap before it is coloured and perfumed.

Stocknoun

Stock theater, summer stock theater.

Stocknoun

The trunk and woody main stems of a tree. The base from which something grows or branches.

Stocknoun

(horticulture) The plant upon which the scion is grafted.

Stocknoun

lineage, family, ancestry.

Stocknoun

Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.

Stocknoun

A handle or stem to which the working part of an implement or weapon is attached.

Stocknoun

(firearm) The part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shooter's shoulder.

Stocknoun

The handle of a whip, fishing rod, etc.

Stocknoun

Part of a machine that supports items or holds them in place.

Stocknoun

The headstock of a lathe, drill, etc.

Stocknoun

The tailstock of a lathe.

Stocknoun

A bar, stick or rod.

Stocknoun

A ski pole.

Stocknoun

(nautical) A bar going through an anchor, perpendicular to the flukes.

Stocknoun

(nautical) The axle attached to the rudder, which transfers the movement of the helm to the rudder.

Stocknoun

(geology) A pipe (vertical cylinder of ore)

Stocknoun

A type of (now formal or official) neckwear.

Stocknoun

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.

Stocknoun

A piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar.

Stocknoun

A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle

Stocknoun

(folklore) A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical beings.

Stocknoun

(obsolete) A cover for the legs; a stocking.

Stocknoun

A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.

Stocknoun

A person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense.

Stocknoun

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.

Stocknoun

The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.

Stocknoun

Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.

Stocknoun

(biology) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as as trees, chains of salpae, etc.

Stocknoun

The beater of a fulling mill.

Stocknoun

A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.

Stockverb

To have on hand for sale.

Stockverb

To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.

Stockverb

To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.

Stockverb

To put in the stocks as punishment.

Stockverb

(nautical) To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.

Stockverb

To arrange cards in a certain manner for cheating purposes; to stack the deck.

Stockadjective

Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.

Stockadjective

Having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having been modified from such a car.

Stockadjective

Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic.

Stocknoun

The stem, or main body, of a tree or plant; the fixed, strong, firm part; the trunk.

Stocknoun

The stem or branch in which a graft is inserted.

Stocknoun

A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.

Stocknoun

Hence, a person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense.

Stocknoun

The principal supporting part; the part in which others are inserted, or to which they are attached.

Stocknoun

The wood to which the barrel, lock, etc., of a rifle or like firearm are secured; also, a long, rectangular piece of wood, which is an important part of several forms of gun carriage.

Stocknoun

The original progenitor; also, the race or line of a family; the progenitor of a family and his direct descendants; lineage; family.

Stocknoun

The handle or contrivance by which bits are held in boring; a bitstock; a brace.

Stocknoun

Money or capital which an individual or a firm employs in business; fund; in the United States, the capital of a bank or other company, in the form of transferable shares, each of a certain amount; money funded in government securities, called also the public funds; in the plural, property consisting of shares in joint-stock companies, or in the obligations of a government for its funded debt; - so in the United States, but in England the latter only are called stocks, and the former shares.

Stocknoun

The block of wood or metal frame which constitutes the body of a plane, and in which the plane iron is fitted; a plane stock.

Stocknoun

Same as Stock account, below.

Stocknoun

The wooden or iron crosspiece to which the shank of an anchor is attached. See Illust. of Anchor.

Stocknoun

Supply provided; store; accumulation; especially, a merchant's or manufacturer's store of goods; as, to lay in a stock of provisions.

Stocknoun

The support of the block in which an anvil is fixed, or of the anvil itself.

Stocknoun

Domestic animals or beasts collectively, used or raised on a farm; as, a stock of cattle or of sheep, etc.; - called also live stock.

Stocknoun

A handle or wrench forming a holder for the dies for cutting screws; a diestock.

Stocknoun

That portion of a pack of cards not distributed to the players at the beginning of certain games, as gleek, etc., but which might be drawn from afterward as occasion required; a bank.

Stocknoun

The part of a tally formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness. See Counterfoil.

Stocknoun

A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.

Stocknoun

A covering for the leg, or leg and foot; as, upper stocks (breeches); nether stocks (stockings).

Stocknoun

A kind of stiff, wide band or cravat for the neck; as, a silk stock.

Stocknoun

A frame of timber, with holes in which the feet, or the feet and hands, of criminals were formerly confined by way of punishment.

Stocknoun

The frame or timbers on which a ship rests while building.

Stocknoun

Red and gray bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.

Stocknoun

Any cruciferous plant of the genus Matthiola; as, common stock (Matthiola incana) (see Gilly-flower); ten-weeks stock (M. annua).

Stocknoun

An irregular metalliferous mass filling a large cavity in a rock formation, as a stock of lead ore deposited in limestone.

Stocknoun

A race or variety in a species.

Stocknoun

In tectology, an aggregate or colony of persons (see Person), as trees, chains of salpæ, etc.

Stocknoun

The beater of a fulling mill.

Stocknoun

A liquid or jelly containing the juices and soluble parts of meat, and certain vegetables, etc., extracted by cooking; - used in making soup, gravy, etc.

Stocknoun

Raw material; that out of which something is manufactured; as, paper stock.

Stocknoun

A plain soap which is made into toilet soap by adding perfumery, coloring matter, etc.

Stockverb

To lay up; to put aside for future use; to store, as merchandise, and the like.

Stockverb

To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply; as, to stock a warehouse, that is, to fill it with goods; to stock a farm, that is, to supply it with cattle and tools; to stock land, that is, to occupy it with a permanent growth, especially of grass.

Stockverb

To suffer to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more previous to sale, as cows.

Stockverb

To put in the stocks.

Stockadjective

Used or employed for constant service or application, as if constituting a portion of a stock or supply; standard; permanent; standing; as, a stock actor; a stock play; a stock phrase; a stock response; a stock sermon.

Stocknoun

the capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares entitling holders to an ownership interest (equity);

Stocknoun

liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered; used as a basis for e.g. soups or sauces;

Stocknoun

the merchandise that a shop has on hand;

Stocknoun

a supply of something available for future use;

Stocknoun

not used technically; any animals kept for use or profit

Stocknoun

the descendants of one individual;

Stocknoun

the handle of a handgun or the butt end of a rifle or shotgun or part of the support of a machine gun or artillery gun;

Stocknoun

the reputation and popularity a person has;

Stocknoun

a special variety of domesticated animals within a species;

Stocknoun

lumber used in the construction of something;

Stocknoun

a certificate documenting the shareholder's ownership in the corporation;

Stocknoun

any of various ornamental flowering plants of the genus Malcolmia

Stocknoun

a plant or stem onto which a graft is made; especially a plant grown specifically to provide the root part of grafted plants

Stocknoun

any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers

Stocknoun

the handle end of some implements or tools;

Stocknoun

persistent thickened stem of a herbaceous perennial plant

Stocknoun

an ornamental white cravat

Stockverb

have on hand;

Stockverb

equip with a stock;

Stockverb

supply with fish;

Stockverb

supply with livestock;

Stockverb

stock up on to keep for future use or sale;

Stockverb

provide or furnish with a stock of something;

Stockverb

put forth and grow sprouts or shoots;

Stockadjective

repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse;

Stockadjective

routine;

Stockadjective

regularly and widely used or sold;

Stock

Stock (also capital stock) is all of the shares into which ownership of a corporation is divided. In American English, the shares are collectively known as .

Stalknoun

The stem or main axis of a plant, which supports the seed-carrying parts.

Stalknoun

The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle of a plant.

Stalknoun

Something resembling the stalk of a plant, such as the stem of a quill.

Stalknoun

(architecture) An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.

Stalknoun

One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.

Stalknoun

(zoology)

Stalknoun

A stem or peduncle, as in certain barnacles and crinoids.

Stalknoun

The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.

Stalknoun

The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.

Stalknoun

(metalworking) An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.

Stalknoun

A particular episode of trying to follow or contact someone.

Stalknoun

The hunting of a wild animal by stealthy approach.

Stalknoun

A haughty style of walking.

Stalkverb

(transitive) To approach slowly and quietly in order not to be discovered when getting closer.

Stalkverb

(transitive) To (try to) follow or contact someone constantly, often resulting in harassment.Wp

Stalkverb

(intransitive) To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner.

Stalkverb

(intransitive) To walk behind something, such as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under cover.

Stalkverb

(intransitive) To walk haughtily.

Stalknoun

The stem or main axis of a plant; as, a stalk of wheat, rye, or oats; the stalks of maize or hemp.

Stalknoun

That which resembles the stalk of a plant, as the stem of a quill.

Stalknoun

An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.

Stalknoun

One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.

Stalknoun

A stem or peduncle, as of certain barnacles and crinoids.

Stalknoun

An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.

Stalknoun

A high, proud, stately step or walk.

Stalknoun

The act or process of stalking.

Stalkverb

To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner; - sometimes used with a reflexive pronoun.

Stalkverb

To walk behind something as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under cover.

Stalkverb

To walk with high and proud steps; - usually implying the affectation of dignity, and indicating dislike. The word is used, however, especially by the poets, to express dignity of step.

Stalkverb

To approach under cover of a screen, or by stealth, for the purpose of killing, as game.

Stalkverb

To follow (a person) persistently, with or without attempts to evade detection; as, the paparazzi stalk celebrities to get candid photographs; obsessed fans may stalk their favorite movie stars.

Stalknoun

material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds

Stalknoun

a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ

Stalknoun

a hunt for game carried on by stalking or waiting in ambush

Stalknoun

the act of following prey stealthily

Stalknoun

a stiff or threatening gait

Stalkverb

walk stiffly

Stalkverb

follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to;

Stalkverb

go through (an area) in search of prey;