stock – English noun declension

English noun forms of stock

Noun: stock
Singularstock
Pluralstocks

Sample Sentences

  • We have a stock of televisions on hand.
  • I checked in the back of the stockroom and found some more stock.
  • Lay in a stock of wood for the winter season.
  • The Grand Trunk Railway had just purchased a large order of stock from the American Car and Foundry Company.
  • Good ranchers must continually keep watch over the health of their stock.
  • […] the open land is generally covered by a grass which grows in tussacs, and produces tufts of hard, crisp, pointed blades. Stock will never willingly eat this grass; […] [1881, William Rowntrie Robertson, Reports on the Agricultural Conditions, Capabilities, and Prospects Of The Neilgherry And Coimbatore Districts, page 33:]
  • The stocks of this fishery are recovering from overfishing, but the gains can easily reverse if our husbandry efforts lapse.
  • His grandpa had bought some stock in General Electric in 1905, and he refused to sell it ever after.
  • When the bad news came out, the company's stock dropped precipitously.
  • After that last screw-up of mine, my stock is pretty low around here.
  • With his stock rising fast in the party, the governor has conspicuously refrained from saying he would stand aside if Mr. Trump runs for the Republican nomination for president in 2024. [2022 January 17, Jonathan Martin, Maggie Haberman, “Who Is King of Florida? Tensions Rise Between Trump and a Former Acolyte.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:]
  • They make beef stock from the butchery scraps that they otherwise might not have used.
  • The books were printed on a heavier stock this year.
  • Though the roote thereof waxe old in the earth, and the stocke thereof die in the ground: Yet through the sent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughes like a plant. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 14:8–9:]
  • The cion overruleth the stock quite. [1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:]
  • UUhat, ſhall I call thee brother? No, a foe,
  • Monſter of Nature, ſhame vnto thy ſtocke,
  • That darſt preſume thy Soueraigne for to mocke. [c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene i:]
  • His hatred is not based upon whom these people are (like many rightwing Republicans, Gallo comes from immigrant stock), but how easily these people have come by success in America. [2003 November 14, Jacques Peretti, “You are a bad man trying to do bad things to Vincent”, in The Guardian:]
  • We may also conclude that as it was the Ionic γένη of the Attic tetrapolis who in the main achieved the Ionization of Athens, so it was a branch of this same stock that settled at Delos […] [2010, Lewis Richard Farnell, The Cults of the Greek States, page 108:]
  • The most underrated component in building a custom gun is the metalsmithing. Stock work immediately attracts attention. Fancy checkering patterns, meticulously executed, are sure to elicit oohs and ahhs. [2013, Tom Turpin, Modern Custom Guns: Walnut, Steel, and Uncommon Artistry, 2nd edition, Iola, Wis.: Gun Digest Books, →ISBN, page 47:]
  • The honest, rough piece of iron, so simple in appearance, has more parts than the human body has limbs: the ring, the stock, the crown, the flukes, the palms, the shank. All this, according to the journalist, is “cast” when a ship arriving at an anchorage is brought up. [1904–1906, Joseph Conrad, chapter IV, in The Mirror of the Sea, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, published October 1906, →OCLC:]
  • He wore a brown tweed suit and a white stock. His clothes hung loosely about him as though they had been made for a much larger man. He looked like a respectable farmer of the middle of the nineteenth century. [1915, W. Somerset Maugham, “chapter 116”, in Of Human Bondage:]
  • His grey waistcoat sported pearl buttons, and he wore a stock which set off to admiration a lean and aquiline face which was almost as grey as the rest of him. [1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), page 417:]
  • When all our Fathers worſhip't Stocks and Stones, [1673, John Milton, “[Sonnet] XV. On the late Massacher in Piemont.”, in Poems, &c. upon Several Occasions, London: […] Tho[mas] Dring […], →OCLC, page 58:]
  • Item, for a stock of brass for the holy water, seven shillings; which, by the canon, must be of marble or metal, and in no case of brick. [1655, Thomas Fuller, The History of Waltham Abbey:]
  • Let's be no stoics, nor no stocks. [c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:]
  • […]a somewhat rude machine called the stocks, and consisting of a pair of wooden mallets, worked alternately by a cog wheel. [1842, Jam Bischoff, A Comprehensive History of the Woollen and Worsted Manufactures:]

Nouns inflected like stock

chick, stock,

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg-
3. Proto-Germanic *stikanąder.
4. Proto-Germanic *stukkaz
5. Proto-West Germanic *stokk
6. Old English stocc
7. Middle English stok
8. English stock
9. From Middle English stok, from Old English stocc, from Proto-West Germanic *stokk, from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz (“tree-trunk”).
10. Modern senses are 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. See: Middle English Nouns 'stok', Old English Nouns 'stocc'.

Verbs referencing "stock"

Dutch Nouns stock, French Nouns stock, Romanian Nouns stoc, French Nouns souche, Irish Nouns stoca, Finnish Nouns stokki.