Main entry: livestock, farm animal, stock
Definition: any animals kept for use or profit
Definition: an ornamental white cravat
Definition: the merchandise that a shop has on hand
Usage: they carried a vast inventory of hardware; they stopped selling in exact sizes in order to reduce inventory
Main entry: stock
Definition: the handle end of some implements or tools
Usage: he grabbed the cue by the stock
Definition: 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
Usage: the rifle had been fitted with a special stock
Main entry: stock
Definition: lumber used in the construction of something
Usage: they will cut round stock to 1-inch diameter
Definition: liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered; used as a basis for e.g. soups or sauces
Usage: she made gravy with a base of beef stock
Main entry: stock, strain, breed
Definition: a special variety of domesticated animals within a species
Usage: he experimented on a particular breed of white rats; he created a new strain of sheep
Main entry: pedigree, parentage, origin, blood, blood line, bloodline, ancestry, line, line of descent, lineage, descent, stemma, stock
Definition: the descendants of one individual
Usage: his entire lineage has been warriors
Main entry: Malcolm stock, stock
Definition: any of various ornamental flowering plants of the genus Malcolmia
Main entry: stock, gillyflower
Definition: any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers
Main entry: stock
Definition: a plant or stem onto which a graft is made; especially a plant grown specifically to provide the root part of grafted plants
Definition: persistent thickened stem of a herbaceous perennial plant
Main entry: stock
Definition: the capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares entitling holders to an ownership interest (equity)
Usage: he owns a controlling share of the company's stock
Main entry: stock, store, fund
Definition: a supply of something available for future use
Usage: he brought back a large store of Cuban cigars
Main entry: stock, stock certificate
Definition: a certificate documenting the shareholder's ownership in the corporation
Usage: the value of his stocks doubled during the past year
Main entry: stock
Definition: the reputation and popularity a person has
Usage: his stock was so high he could have been elected mayor
Definition: put forth and grow sprouts or shoots
Usage: the plant sprouted early this year
Main entry: stock, stockpile, carry
Definition: have on hand
Usage: Do you carry kerosene heaters?
Main entry: stock
Definition: provide or furnish with a stock of something
Usage: stock the larder with meat
Main entry: stock, stock up, buy in
Definition: amass so as to keep for future use or sale or for a particular occasion or use
Usage: let's stock coffee as long as prices are low
Main entry: stock
Definition: supply with livestock
Usage: stock a farm
Main entry: stock
Definition: supply with fish
Usage: stock a lake
Main entry: stock
Definition: equip with a stock
Usage: stock a rifle
Main entry: trite, timeworn, tired, stock, threadbare, old-hat, hackneyed, commonplace, banal, shopworn, well-worn
Definition: repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
Usage: bromidic sermons; his remarks were trite and commonplace; hackneyed phrases; a stock answer; repeating threadbare jokes; parroting some timeworn axiom; the trite metaphor `hard as nails'
Definition: regularly and widely used or sold
Usage: a standard size; a stock item
Main entry: stock
Definition: routine
Usage: a stock answer