Stock (disambiguation)

A stock is a share of ownership in a company. See stock.

Supply and inventory

Stock in general refers to the equipment, materials, or supplies of an establishment or a store or supply accumulated or available, as in:

• Livestock kept on a farm.
• Stock (food), a soup and flavoring base
• Inventory, a term for "finished goods", or sometimes raw material kept in storage.
• Stock (cards),the common pile of undealt playing cards from which players draw in a number of card games.
• Stock media, set material which can be used by other people (and is sometimes created for the purpose), either for free or for a set fee. Examples include:
  • Stock footage
  • Stock photography
  • Stock sound effects
  • Clipart
  • Packs/downloads for 3D design programs such as Poser or 3D Studio Max.
• Rolling stock as used in railway operation
• Stock, the base material used in some fabrication work, such as wood for woodworking or the metal used in a welding application.

Original

Stock may also mean the original (as a person, race, or language) from which others derive, as in:

• Rootstock, a stump used for grafting
• (Linguistic) stock, a group of related languages or language families

Names

Stock or stocks is also the name of:

• Stock, Essex is a village in the county of Essex, England.
• Stocks House is a country house in Aldbury, Hertfordshire which was the setting for the album cover of Oasis' Be Here Now
• Stock (publishing house)
• Matthiola incana, a flower
• An album by Japanese singer Akina Nakamori; see STOCK (music)
• Robert Stock, German entrepreneur

Other usages

Other meanings and usages of the word stock include:

• The wooden arms that the sails of a Windmill are fitted to.
• The American form of repertory theatre as practiced in England.
• A wide necktie popular in the eighteenth century, often seen today as a part of formal wear for horse riding competitions.
• Stocks, a device used for public humiliation, punishment, and torture.
• A grappling term for a type of spinal lock.
• Stock (firearm)
• The distinction between stock and flows, a core concept of System dynamics
• Stock in geology refers to a medium-sized igneous intrusion with outcrop area less than about 100 km².
• Fish stocks refers to a fish population in a defined area which is of interest to fishery managers.

References

• stock Archived 2007-03-11 at the Wayback Machine, Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. Accessed 2006-10-19