Stock

(noun.) the merchandise that a shop has on hand; 'they carried a vast inventory of hardware'; 'they stopped selling in exact sizes in order to reduce inventory'.

(noun.) the handle end of some implements or tools; 'he grabbed the cue by the stock'.

(noun.) 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; 'the rifle had been fitted with a special stock'.

(noun.) lumber used in the construction of something; 'they will cut round stock to 1-inch diameter'.

(noun.) any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers.

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

(noun.) persistent thickened stem of a herbaceous perennial plant.

(noun.) the capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares entitling holders to an ownership interest (equity); 'he owns a controlling share of the company's stock'.

(noun.) the reputation and popularity a person has; 'his stock was so high he could have been elected mayor'.

(verb.) have on hand; 'Do you carry kerosene heaters?'.

(verb.) provide or furnish with a stock of something; 'stock the larder with meat'.

(verb.) amass so as to keep for future use or sale or for a particular occasion or use; 'let's stock coffee as long as prices are low'.

(verb.) supply with livestock; 'stock a farm'.

(verb.) supply with fish; 'stock a lake'.

(verb.) equip with a stock; 'stock a rifle'.

(adj.) routine; 'a stock answer' .

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• They heard a rifle bolt snick as it was drawn back and then the knock against the wood as it was pushed forward and down on the stock. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Hence, provision was made for carrying a large stock of oil, and for giving a certain period of rest to that already used. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• This the Muses affirm to be the stock from which discord has sprung, wherever arising; and this is their answer to us. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• You find the damask rose a goodish stock for most of the tender sorts, don't you, Mr. Gardener? 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• The furniture for which he owed would not want renewing; nor even the stock of wine for a long while. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• His whole stock, therefore, is distinguished into two parts. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• They appear to be lists of Stock Exchange securities. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Such companies, therefore, commonly draw to themselves much greater stocks, than any private copartnery can boast of. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The doctrine of the origin of our several domestic races from several aboriginal stocks, has been carried to an absurd extreme by some authors. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Tell her she shall be put in the stocks if she does not take herself off, replied the magistrate. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• So, there was a double palpitation among the double stocks and double wall-flowers, when the master and the boy looked over the little gate. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Finally the English government ordered eight or ten of such machines for the making of gun-stocks for its army, and paid Blanchard about $40,000 for them. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The supposed aboriginal stocks must all have been rock-pigeons, that is, they did not breed or willingly perch on trees. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• In the dry-salt curing cellars are kept enormous stocks of the cheaper kinds of meat. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• A large park was one of its appendages, laid out with great taste, and plentifully stocked with game. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• I do not think you will find your woods by any means worse stocked than they were. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• Miss Addams has not only made Hull House a beautiful place; she has stocked it with curious and interesting objects. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Fired with a housewifely wish to see her storeroom stocked with homemade preserves, she undertook to put up her own currant jelly. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• They have stocked the ship with them. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• In addition to his lectures Davy worked hard in the well-stocked laboratory of the Institution, where he was supplied with a corps of capable assistants. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Mrs Clennam and Jeremiah had exchanged a look; and had then looked, and looked still, at Affery, who sat mending the stocking with great assiduity. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Sue followed her into church, sat next to her, and as soon as she could find a chance in went the stocking-needle into my lady's arm. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• They made me take off my boots and walk into the place in my stocking-feet. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• She would give a day to the mending of two holes in a stocking any time, and think her mission nobly fulfilled when she had accomplished it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I glanced down at the foot from which the shoe was absent, and saw that the silk stocking on it, once white, now yellow, had been trodden ragged. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• As to a stocking, I didn't know such a thing by name. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Aroused by the sound, the reddleman laid down his stocking, lit a lantern which hung beside him, and came out from the van. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.

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